Props to the commitment, going so far as to even require that the implements be tools/parts.

This. My wife used to treat the knob in her GTI the same way. She told me to loosen up a few times until she saw how much it actually bothers me. Now she just uses the steering wheel controls to change the volume.

And I’m off to go play Dirt 2.0...

This is like saying that anyone who changed their WinAmp skin back in the day was phony.

Good ‘lopnik right here. Non-engineer here, make sure I understand correctly: fuel mixture is made richer at start-up so that some portion of unburned fuel gets into the exhaust system between the manifold and the cat, fresh air is pumped in around the same point, and the heat ignites this mixture, warming up the cat…

Someone wittier than I, help me out here, trying to make a connection between Torch and torching the creme brulee...

I’d like to buy the rights to this story.

Very excited. Wife and I are seeing it in a few hours!

Interesting study, but as admitted, has methodological shortcomings. Please do a follow-up article on the larger study when published.

Ballaban’s suggestion is the only one I Gawked at.

I do NOT know how y’all can continue to do good work, much less maintain a sense of humor, under this barrage of hateful garbage, but somehow you do. Ku-effin’-dos. I’ll raise a glass to y’all! Prost!

RE: comments about the price. Yes, overpriced; however, they’re trying to establish themselves as a new, upmarket brand. Yes, their cash flow will almost certainly be lower (or likely negative) at $155K instead of the $90K range others have suggested, but Geely (via Volvo) is apparently willing to fund this little…

Hood graphics by TRON, apparently. Hideous.

...Run.

Your job sounds legitimately interesting.

People, give this individual all of your stars.

Heck, they’ll even save you time and break six days later instead of making you wait seven!

*Scans list*

This looks somehow worse than a beat to hell Japanese car with all the interior bits replaced with their cheapest aftermarket alternatives bc “modded = better.”

For two years I was driving from Dallas to Corsicana, about a third of the way to Houston, every day. I put more than 60,000 miles on my car in those two years but it actually wasn’t terrible: 98% were highway miles that I spent with both cruise control and a podcast on.