I can offer one possible explanation:

Because you added air conditioning in a vehicle that has a window constantly open.

Any of the discussions regarding Norway’s oil exports aside, part of the reason why so many individuals & companies in Norway are buying EVs is because the nation is incentivizing it’s population to actually do so. Buyers of EVs receive all sorts of registration & tax breaks, key of which include no purchase/import…

Of course they knew. But they also knew that if they raised taxes to fix any of the crumbling infrastructure, they’d all lose their jobs and be raked over the coals for being freedom hating tax and spend politicians.

Hey David Tracy, you see all that rust?  I have a bridge to sell you.

Anyone suggesting growing children climb into the back of an FJ is nearly recommending child abuse. Kinda joking, kinda not.

One potential awesome upside to the hidden tailpipes- less chance of melting/ruining fancy Overland(TM) accessories that are bolted to the fenders or on racks on the back of the vehicle. For example, big back-facing exhausts and carbon mountain bike wheels really do not mix. And while I know that no SERIOUS off roader…

Saw a Bro-Dozer the other day. Exhaust tip was the size of a trash can. 

Always sounded a bit like an inside job. There’s a train that tends to park right across the road I need to use to get to work. In the 10 minutes that train is parked, if I ran out and opened a 2-3 containers, I’m sure I would find a life time supply of pencil sharpeners, an assload of laxatives, a couple reams of…

Pop-up headlights are trash, I don’t get the obsession. Great complexity/weight plus an aerodynamic penalty.

The problem isn’t so much the brightness, it’s the aim. Manufacturers have been able to keep bumping up the brightness because they have been able to better manage the cut-off at the beltline of the vehicle. Unfortunately, they are aimed using their own beltline and do not take into account the retinas of every…

The laws are what the car makers want. Which is why the US no longer has just 8 head lamps that cost $8-15 but instead now has hundreds that cost $100-2000. The engineering costs are passed on to the consumer, increasing the profit margins.

in Minnesota it would be highly unusual to have 12 hr wait times in a blizzard. I cannot think of any in the last 30 years. I even took a city bus from Roseville to the Guthrie during the Halloween Blizzard.

Yeah, to me there’s a very large difference between hypermiling where you are going slower than the average speed of the traffic around you (40 in a 70), and hypermiling in bumper-to-bumper traffic. When I used to commute every day, on my way home it was common to have traffic come to a stop (or nearly a stop), then…

I dunno, the “leaving some space between traffic” on the 405 doesn’t seem that egregious; it’s far better than the folks who will floor it at the first sign of a space and then slam on the brakes when the inevitable stop comes. In fact, I generally try to drive with some “buffer” in stop and go, leaving a bit of space…

My first thought upon completing the article?

Better than asking someone to “knock me up in the morning.”

Not automotive - but a friend of mine in Germany spent a year in a US high school as an exchange student. Since in Germany we were taught the Queen’s English in school, he had some adjustments to make. Such as when in the first week there, wanting to erase some pencil marks, he asked the girl sitting next to him if he…

During the races, the announcers are always referring to the fact that there are 3 Fords teaming up, and we’ll see what the Chevys can do, and here comes a couple Toyotas, blah blah blah.  I’m sure they’re told in production meetings before each race that they need to bring up the manufacturers names x number of…

As someone who prefers GT racing, this is very funny to me. You want a symmetrical setup? Force compliance through track configuration. Stop making left turns the only turns, eliminating or at least mitigating the advantage of an asymmetrical setup. You wouldn’t even have to change the track exactly, make everyone pit…