6 cubic feet extra vs. the Fit is not impressive, it weighs 20% more but only has 10% more power and torque, and it doesn’t handle as well. I want to like it more, but high seating has to be a bigger priority than it is to me.

President Obama didn’t “give” Iran money; the US returned the money Iran paid 40 years ago for F-14s that Grumman never delivered. Had the US waited for the International Court of Justice to rule in Iran’s favor instead of settling, the amount might have been four times as great.

I didn’t think it was possible for Honda to create a worse styling atrocity than the Civic 4-door, but the Accord proved me wrong. In little more than one year, they have stomped all over Hyundai-Kia, Nissan, and Toyota for ugliest lineup of vehicles on the American road.

Now that the cog railroad runs on biodiesel (except for the first trip of the day for steam enthusiasts), it doesn’t take all that long—less time than it would take to drive around the mountain to the base of the automobile road, should you be situated on the side where the cog railway is. The biggest annoyance is…

Guess what, not-rich people are morons as well. Some years ago there was an article in the Washington Post about rural citizens who like to stop by roadside springs and fill containers because of a belief in the superiority and healing properties of natural, unprocessed water, despite the available evidence that…

It looks like an add-on built to accommodate a winch. 5-mph bumper standards didn’t apply to trucks or “multi-purpose vehicles” (AMC Eagle, etc.).

Of course he’s ignorant, but that doesn’t explain all of his various behavior problems, which is why some believe he suffers from dementia, or my favored theory, tertiary syphilis (yes, it could have been cured if diagnosed early enough, but he is just the type of person would refuse to believe or acknowledge that he…

There are a number of Android apps that will block known spam numbers and allow you to identify new callers as spammers and block future calls. Apparently this is not possible on iOS because of Apple’s app restrictions. The Nomorobo service is also now available for mobile as well as landline numbers.

The thought experiment was Schrödinger’s but the principle he was criticizing was Heisenberg’s (+Einstein’s and Bohr’s).

I believe that there have been some winter tires designed to give up some snow and ice performance in favor of grip on cold dry pavement, e. g. the no-longer-made Cooper WM-SA2, which I still have on my Mazda3. Consumer Reports’ tire tests among others break out different weather type’s performance so you can better…

According to an episode of QI, when the heraldric cat is in profile especially rampant or upright, it is called a lion; while if it is shown facing, especially horizontal, it is called a leopard.

Shouldn’t it be the user’s decision to charge more often rather than extend battery life through reduced performance?

You plug the lights in, start at the bottom next to the trunk and wrap around a major branch going out, then move to the next major bottom branch and wrap around back in to the trunk, then alternate until you move up to the next ring of branches, and so forth until the top. You don’t run out of lights because you buy…

This car was a category below the cars you’re comparing it to. It was more comparable to a CRX, and typical of Toyota was positioned a bit orthogonal to its logical competition. Since non-Si CRXs had 92hp or less, the Paseo’s 100 wasn’t so bad.

The Audi A3 still comes with FWD and gets 2 mpg better on the city cycle while the CLA FWD gets 2 mpg better on the highway cycle. If Mercedes undercuts Audi on price it will be because you usually get less standard equipment with M-B; Audi A3 has a moonroof, leather upholstery, and projector headlamps standard, e.…

Again, it’s a December 2017 sneak peek but it won’t formally be introduced until the Detroit Auto Show in January and won’t be on sale until some unspecified time later in 2018. Anything manufactured in CY nn can legally be labeled a MY nn or MY nn+1. Manufacture year matters because regulatory changes generally take…

76-78 were Capri IIs; Ford skipped the 1975 model year entirely and introduced the 76 part way through calendar 1975. My dad had a 1972 and my sister bought a 1976 as her first new car.

If we’re going to be eliminating jobs through automation then we need slower population growth to balance demand for labor.

SMEG is an Italian acronym, like FIAT.

Since IRS came back and the 1.4T became the base engine, it would actually be my 2nd choice for a $20K car. The higher-spec ones, no, until VW stops trying to convince me that V-Tex is a suitable material for automobile upholstery.