Replacing the spark plugs on my GTI.

I hope your other car had the ASSMAN plates at least.

Ha!

“So other than that, how was the play Mrs. Lincoln?” :-)

My rental was like that.  I asked a co-worker who owns one, and he’s like yeah, that’s how they are.  He said Jeep had twice tried to make his better, to no end.  I could never live with one, it was utterly exhausting to drive. 

I rented a Wrangler for a week in 2021, and damn if it didn’t make me feel like I could drive over anything, anywhere, and made me feel good. And this was in urban Charlotte. Popped the roof panels off easily enough, too. While I daily a GTI (which apparently has tons of haters here, I pity them ;-) ) I did really like…

Agreed, Yuki still seems to be a chronic mistake-maker and underperformer.  As someone pointed out, the Honda umbrella is possibly the only thing keeping him safe at the moment.  He needs to get his act together.  

1/4 mile shows at about 170 mph. I mean, I guess it’s fast.

Duh, it’s in the model lineup: S3XY.

We own a 2018 GLC300, as my wife’s car. She got it when we sold back our TDI wagon, so traded insane efficiency for insane inefficiency, but, her car. She works from home and otherwise goes to Target and Wegman’s approximately 87 times per week by my math. A plug-in version of this car is PERFECT for her and I’d even…

The Big Bus FTW!  Loved that movie in the 80's.  I notice it is not displaying the Flags of All Nations though...

I remember maybe a decade or so ago a passenger train from Richmond to DC got stuck behind a freight train going 6 MPH north of Fredericksburg and it look like 10 hours to get to DC. Rail is such a shit show in America (and yes, I know this is Canada’s fault, but deep down, we know it’s us).

Sub tours are typically 90 days, and offer the sweet, psychological reward of sunlight and fresh air on the back end. A trip to Mars is 6 months, minimum. And then you are there for YEARS. Subs also have all the fresh water, showers, toilets, air, food, video games, and TV one could hope for, and a variety of…

He appoints the Pardon Board though, right?  He will replace them with as many Yes Men as it takes.  Give it a minute.

And yet it too often does. “I feared for my life” is a Get Out of Jail Free Card in nearly half of the US.*

I really hope everyone involved here has read “Packing for Mars” by Mary Roach. If not, do it now, it is fascinating! It really shows that the rocket-part of getting to Mars - and living there - is far and away the easy part. Living in confined spaces with compromised gravity, nutrition, hygiene, and other dumb-ass…

No doubt. I was at NJMSP in 2022 and there was a 20-something year old kid with a Ferrari F12 tdf in the beginner group (foreign money). He had no idea what he was doing, but it was like a rocket ship on the straights, and amazing to see and hear, and good for him to bring it out there!  It’s got be be insanely boring…

I’m guessing an RS6 is going to be pushing 14o+ on a straight of any decent length, and braking events from those speeds are super hard on brakes. Street pads would evaporate in no time. And a poorly driven car lighting up stability control all the time is going to work the brakes even harder. Who knows what Audi is…

I think a lot of people underestimate the abuse of track driving. 5,000+ pounds + 631 HP = ultra severe brake duty. If the owner was not using track pads/fluid, I’m guessing the brakes would fry within 2 laps. For my GTI with 1/3 the power of this thing, I faded a set of street pads one time doing some “high speed smoo…

Gatun Lake is at the “middle” of the canal, and is its high point. Ships are hoisted up to it via multiple locks from either ocean, and then back down. Every time they run the lock, they lose a lock’s worth of water from the lake. The lake is artificial, hemmed in by the locks, but is fed by a mountain river. So my…