I bet a first-gen Accord would have fit

Gotta get yourself an original NA Miata casting, metal/metal!

I don’t care too much for the premium cars with RealRiders, because they don’t roll very well and can’t be used on tracks. My favorite HW series of the past decade was the Cool Classics series which had metal bodies and bases, but still had plastic wheels. They decimate all on track. And they were only $3 each.

The United States might only make up 1% or less of their overall unit demographic, but I bet we’re closer to 25% of their global profit from motorcycles per-unit. They probably make more on one Goldwing sale than they do a dozen 50cc supercubs in Asia.

It’s almost like aging pyrotechnics are dangerous, and will become more and more of a threat as early airbag-equipped cars age.

A pipeline is statistically safer AND more environmentally friendly than trucking or shipping all that oil. The oil is gonna get delivered to where it’s needed regardless of the pipeline’s existence.

This dealer is less than an hour from me, brb

I’ll take a well-maintained 300,000 mile car over a neglected 100k car every time.

Amateur hour behind the wheel of the crane

Headlight aiming guidance is the most flagrant misuse of GPS I’ve ever heard of

You are absolutely right about cost being the priority. Cost of production AND long term cost of maintenance. Ford is debuting this engine with conservative power figures so that it lasts a very long time under a commercial-use, 100% duty cycle. Give it a couple years and they’ll probably develop an OEM turbo or…

I agree Acura made a reputation for itself quite well with real model names. The whole alphanumeric soup naming scheme is just a ripoff of the big german marques to try and steal their thunder.

The alphanumeric thing kind of puts everything a manufacturer makes into an anonymous “Sure, an Audi I guess”

I had a similar issue with my 1978 Lincoln Continental mark V, which came with 15" steel wheels from the factory. I ordered a set of 17" Mach-1 style wheels for it, and the 17s wouldn’t clear the brake calipers (4 wheel discs). Turns out the rotors were huge for a 70s car, 14" or something ridiculous. The original 15s…

Wheels bigger than about 20 inches don’t make a lot of sense for passenger cars. With some rare exceptions for brake caliper clearance, big wheels are admittedly a modern aesthetic choice on newer cars, nothing more. The vast majority of cars on the road would do just fine on 16-18" wheels.

To everyone complaining about how trucks are wasteful and polluting, the simple solution to that is simply have a truck as a second vehicle. Put your commute miles on the 45 mpg hybrid and save the truck for recreation and moving big things.

So.. uber is statistically safer than air travel? That’s a DAMN high standard.

Ride a motorcycle, and use the HOV lanes with reckless abandon

I have owned three cars with heated seats and besides testing to see if they worked, did not use any of them. I just don’t enjoy the feeling of a warmer-than-body-temp seat.

The left front tire looks a bit low