People worry about the alienation and escapism inherent in things like smartphones, video games, and the internet, but unless we're willing to say that we're using those things when they don't (in some way) benefit us, or more to the point, that they hurt us, and that we must be under a mass illusion as to the real…

Because generally speaking, it seems that technology has dramatically improved the quality of life of people around the world, and thus far at least, there's an almost perfect correlation of more technology-better quality of life. The idea that we may, in the near future, manage to figure out how to replace our…

Not just the headlights: the emblem and overall graphics are just two big. Having one or two enormous grill bars and a badge the size of your hand is out of proportion on most vehicles that aren't heavy duty pickups. It was Mercedes-Benz "Sport" models' styling language exclusively until the middle of the last decade,…

To talk about the study of ethics, you really have to move on to metaethics, and metaethics is a non-scientific discipline, i.e., it has its own measures of success and failure, accuracy and inaccuracy. However, because metaethics still doesn't really tell us what's right and wrong, it's hard to see how one could say…

Depending on your moral perspective, you might be ambivalent to or even favorable toward wiping out humanity; anthropocentrism is obviously natural to humans, but assuming you have a wide definition of personhood, there's no reason to believe humans, or more accurately homo sapiens, are the only important things.

Well, I don't know if the block could take it, but they could've just bored out the cylinders for the extra .2 displacement, without lengthening stroke, hypothetically. Additionally, I don't see why balance shafts couldn't be used to address NVH. And, if we assume it'd be a limited-production model, weight-matching…

I'd hoped that this was named something in English that, unbeknownst to the Japanese product planners who bestowed it with that name, was entirely indicative of the car itself. Something like, "Toyota Don't". However, a quick Wikipedia search shows it was just, "Toyota Cavalier". An opportunity missed, then.

Dunno if it's clear, but in both cases, it's actually a fem-positive message. Bloom is basically talking about the value of a good, intimate, and caring sexual relationship, instead of the self-objectification you usually get, and Fuck You is about the issue of spousal rape, which is until recently wasn't taken very…

Honestly, I don't get the dotage the car receives. Yes, it is attractive, but that's because it looks like every person's idea of what a GT should look like. There's nothing particularly new or interesting, or even that dramatic or elegant, and considering the raft of stylistic innovations that it brought to the…

The scooter drivers in Seoul don't understand that they're not pedestrians, so they drive on sidewalks all the time. From where the scooter came from, I'm guessing that that was how this started, and supercop couldn't let the offense go. Good guy.

Hardy har har!

Anyone else see that parachute strongly resembling the North Korean flag?

Never before have I been so mad at a tree.

So slightly off-topic...according to this diagram, a boxer engine will be perfectly balanced as long as the cylinder banks are of an even number, whereas a flat engine is always perfectly balanced because opposed pistons go in opposite directions, canceling each other's force out?

Or even better, a well-tuned 3.3L NA V6 revving over 8k rpm and making 370hp.

No; the basic design was done by the Mitsubishi-Hyundai-Chrysler alliance in the '00's, but Hyundai manufacturers everything for its own engines (except maybe the turbos? I could be wrong), and I think Hyundai may actually be the only ones still using a heavily modified and updated version of this engine architecture…

Car and Driver suggested that the ratings decrease means that Hyundai are now focusing not just on numbers, but on quality and character as well. It's a very generous explanation, but considering the ratings for the 2.4L in the Sonata and both of the engines in the 2015 Genesis all dropped, combined with how the 3.8…

Ah, when Top Gear was a car show....Although some things never change. When given a choice of two Japanese cars, they choose the British one.

Agreed, at least from the perspective of a self-proclaimed automotive enthusiasts. The only cars they test now, in any fashion vaguely resembling a normal one, are the big ones that will appeal even to the relatively large (for a car show) number of people who watch the show but don't really care about cars: hypercars…

That's how I discovered this car initially. It makes one of the best sounds of any cars in the game, like an evil pipe organ.