And it’s been operating for over a century too.

The vacuum wiper motors (at least on every old car I’ve dealt with that had them) worked off of intake manifold vacuum. When is that vacuum the strongest? With the throttle fully closed of course. When is it the weakest? Wide open throttle. None of the cars I am familiar with had any sort of vacuum reservoir either. I…

This is Hope - it must be John Rambo’s fault. Everything bad that happens here has been caused by that guy.

I also have a bunch of friends and family with terrible VW experiences (one being with a 2019 model Golf). When I test drove a new TDI back around 2008-2009 the DSG went into neutral, the idiot lights came on and it wouldn’t go back into gear until we shut down and restarted the car several times after coasting to the…

Pretty much the same reason we went with an automatic the last time we bought a new car (2018). In our case my wife had both broken her foot AND started suffering from pain in her left knee. A manual would have been OK for clear-highway driving but any time in heavier traffic and stop-and-go driving would have been…

Decades old but this parody ad is still damn close to the real ones in this story:

I did just that (along with a few other cars) a couple of years ago. I didn’t buy an Ecoboost Mustang because I didn’t care for the engine - performance was fine but It just didn’t give me any sort of a rush. After trying a GT as well I also knew that if I bought an Ecoboost, every time I drove the thing I would be…

In aviation and other safety critical industries one thing we have learned over the years is that humans usually make very poor monitors of automated systems. It’s something that is continually being wrestled with and improved bit by bit through training and engineering. I tend to favor the “AV-5 or treat it exactly…

I still find it remarkable that my childhood Disney memories include Anthony Perkins being disemboweled by the spinning-blade hands of a scary red robot.

MSRP on the base 2020 370Z from Nissan Canada is the equivalent $21,600 U.S. Doesn’t seem particularly overpriced to me and that’s before any negotiations.

“but what would you do with a chassis capable of over 600 horsepower and torque”

The parents of a friend of mine back in elementary school owned one so I never grew up with any illusions as to this being a great car. At least it had four wheel drive though. Their other car, a Pacer had little to distinguish it aside from the comedic possibilities.

My apologies, I will try to be clearer: Someone was ready and willing to pay $20,000 for the Jeep on Bring A Trailer, an amount David Tracy thinks is too much but that still wasn’t enough to buy it. So the owner probably thinks he can get thousands more for it - the difference in the perceived worth of that Jeep…

Someone on Bring A Trailer bid that Jeep to $20,000 but that didn’t meet the reserve so no one dropped $20,000 on it. Make of that what you will.

I was a little surprised at the prices mentioned for the Ranger and F-150. On the Ford Canada website the F-150 starts at $24,399 and the Ranger starts at $32,159. Apparently Ford doesn’t make lower end Rangers available here in Canada. This may go some way towards explaining why I’ve seen almost as many new Supras on…

“Reid Bigland”

“NASCAR Senior VP of Innovation and Racing Development, John Probst”

The grille and the colour make me it look like a Fallout mole rat:

“heavy motorcycles like the one Marlon Brando rode in the movie “The Wild One” went out of style”

It might - depends on the eventual price more than anything else I guess. I’m not a fan of the Supra but I sure don’t want to see it fail in the market as there are so few sports cars still available in the “affordable” price range. See you here in two years I guess when we will know how it all turns out!