They also happen to completely destroy shins in parking lots, but you don’t need a mannequin to tell anyone that, just a dummy (ouch).

I hear the excuse that if someone hits you, it keeps them off your bumper... um what? It has a cross section of 4sq in. That will in no way stop a 4,000lb vehicle, that will just go through their bumper, ask me how I know!

I was referring to all the gearbox internals, not the input shaft alone but you got me on this lack of precision.

Weight is a measure of viscosity,

But one time I was filling up my Jetta and some dude in a truck next to me said “That’s a diesel pump.” I pointed at the Jetta and said “That’s a diesel car.”

An automatic was never offered in the Type-S because Honda used to be cool.

or because the car is not in gear ( = no rotation of internals since the car is in standstill).

Well, I hate to break it to you, but if your gearbox internals rotate while you are NOT driving, you are hopelessly spinning your wheels while not moving.

.... but I’ve never met anyone who’s driven one who doesn’t like them.

It seems you and I might be the only two people here that get this.

In order to heat up the oil in the gearbox, the internals of the gearbox needs to start rotating. This is done while driving.

That transmission and differential fluid isn’t going to warm up much at all until the car starts moving and the gears start meshing.

And if you’re one of those horrible people with an automatic transmission, the trans fluid warms up, too (via the trans cooler in the radiator).

Didn’t Beetles have a gasoline heater under the front hood?

Idling does next to nothing about warming the transmission up unless it’s an automatic or wet clutch dct with an oil cooler connected to the engine coolant circuit, so idling is not the cure for a stiff manual transmission. It takes friction and driving to thin the fluid back out.

I mean, a full set of tires may be a bit punitive. Maybe just replace the rears and rotate?

Apparently it never occurred to them that one day an insane lunatic could possibly be elected.

People who do their own alignments with tape measures or silly strings are measuring in 1/16 inch increments,

They pretend to not know English when they find out you don’t know French. Then, right in front of you, they talk English to their coworkers

Hilarious! :)