“I had to wait for all the documents to be sent from Italy,” he said. “They don’t include them in the car, in case the ship sinks.”

I would love to have a washer nozzle on my backup camera lens. Dirty spray kicked up when driving on wet roads sometimes makes it hard to see with when it comes time to park. I have to admit that they stay usefully clear most of the time but I would be willing to pay a little more to be able to clean them on the move…

“I forgot to tighten my lug nuts to spec” I think you nailed it: he didn’t forget, he probably used an analog torque wrench instead of a digital one and that wheel ended up with its lug nuts 1.5 inch-pound under spec. Then as the corner was approached and the accelerator was depressed undesirable events occurred.

If I had the option of taking my trip to Britain this summer on a 707-320 I would go for it. A DC-7C or Super Constellation? Even better!

Children are our future.

I’ve long been under the impression that men tend to have more accidents than women so this kind of surprised me too. Where I live car insurance is through a government corporation though, so I wasn’t familiar with the way things are in the US.

Any questions of actual functionality and effectiveness are completely beside the point. The whole reason for being of military equipment nowadays is to funnel money to industry, and this certainly succeeds at that task.

You should have 10,000 stars for this but one star all the system will allow me.

I think Moose should have released an album in the 90s, it would have been a classic - she was far cooler than Alanis!

I was just thinking while while setting up a new computer for a friend a while back: “If only new cars came stuffed with bloatware that we would have to spend hours getting rid of that would be just peachy-keen!” Now the dream looks set to become a reality.

Camera operator gets perfectly situated for a great shot of two Lamborghinis  catching fire... and misses most of the crash. It was a 50/50 chance of combustion or impact so the mistake is understandable.

Both cars I drive have the backup camera screen in the rear view mirror. I prefer that to having it on a separate screen. The disadvantages are of course that the camera display area is much smaller than the separate screens are and it does take away about a third of the mirror area when backing up. Advantages are it…

“It was built to serve a purpose, and I take great joy in that purpose.” To fill a marketing gap in the lineup that existed after the 914 died and before the 924 was ready?

I’ve long suspected that Vancouver BC is an expensive market for used cars and this confirms it - even taking into account the exchange rate.

The video is really long so I just looked at the .gif, read the story and started going through the comments. When I read yours I thought: “Eh, how bad could it be?” and clicked on the video. At first, yeah donuts, people standing around all with the little angelic lights of their smartphones hovering around their…

My problem with VW exactly. Whenever I’ve driven one they impress the hell out of me, but I’ve had too much pain and misery from them falling apart so fast that getting hit by shrapnel is a serious danger. I doubt I’ll ever own a new one in the future.

I wish someone had asked him exactly what he meant by “digital.” I have a sneaking suspicion he wouldn’t be able to answer that question coherently. As it is the statement makes it sound like the steering wheel will have a smooth relationship between the amount you turn it and the amount the front wheels turn but…

Dealers aren’t allowed to charge more than their own advertised price in Canada (many do - they put up an ad with price $X but when you attempt to buy that car they proceed to add on various bogus charges and fees or the car has “just been sold” even though it continues to appear in new ads) but they can set any…

Interesting. Around Vancouver once you get to cars from the 80s supply seems scarce and almost everyone selling one puts a relatively high price on it. I knew that was true with motorcycles as I helped a friend of mine in the search for an older, cheap UJM bike a few years back - around here there was very little but…

Too small. You want a Berliet T1000: