It seems like everything related to driving these days at the level of the general consumer is designed to enable idiots and the inept. If you want someone or a group to improve, make them learn, don’t enable their failures.

Good point. A Hemi ‘Cuda is a classic muscle car that shares prices with exotics. (And in some cases, production quantities.)

Man, this car sounds good.

There are differences between karts: tire condition, engine wear, alignment, etc.

Land Rover’s quality.

No, I had a bi-turbo V6 S4, which had its own mess of problems. The 4.2L V8 timing chain is certainly one of the more ludicrous ideas to come out of Audi, though.

If the bank refuses to accept it knowing this, it’s only because they don’t want the inconvenience of handling it, not because the Fed won’t take it from them. Which might be fair enough.

I asked BMW’s techs about why the hell an engine’s timing system would eat itself in this fashion. “Oh yeah, they all do that!” Sweet.

Disc brakes are just better at stopping

I’d like to take a rubber timing belt, and use it to strangle the breath out of the motherfucker who thought up the idea that it would be a swell idea to use these in place of a chain

The thing about drum brakes, at least in my experience, is they’re generally (not always, but again, my experience) on older cars and a lot of parts are rusted on or fragile, so things that should be easy or straightforward end up being a HUGE pain in the ass.

She really was a beauty, but also smart and spunky and such a lovable actress.

At least you have the option. All the Tim Horton’s shops around here just up and disappeared overnight one day last year.

She frequently rides in the car with me, but I don’t roll the windows all the way down for this exact reason. I give her enough space to stick her head out, and that’s about it.

Which means I joined the smoking turbo club

I seem to remember reading Williams sold them the property in front of his, including the easement that gives him a right of way to the driveway. So it isn’t like these crazy people didn’t know when they bought the place that there would be traffic going back to his house.

How exactly is his garage a problem? Is it noise that they are complaining about? I honestly can’t come up with anything else that might even be the issue.

That’s interesting. I had no idea the mixing ratio could vary so much. It seems like a simple thing to get right.

There do exist methods to fly without photo ID, but it is slower than the conventional security screening.

I mean, yes, i won’t be able to take advantage should I ever get offered a free trip to somewhere abroad that leaves sooner than 4 weeks, but the chances of that happening more or less approach zero.