My best friend is awful. He refuses to use cruise control on the highway because it makes him feel like “it removes control”. I get that but he drives a 10 year old Elantra so driving experience is already dull. As a consequence he is one of the people you pass on the highway only for them to pass you again shortly…

This thing

Read more about the fusion “breakthrough” at the National Ignition Facility. Yes, the energy fed into the reactor was ~2 Megajoules and the power out was ~3MJ. Lost in translation was that the laser needed for this reaction required 300MJ of energy. It’s still a net loss of power in the grand scheme.

Stupid name for a very stupid looking vehicle.

The answer is obvious to me: 1st Gen Chrysler Minivan- the car that saved Chrysler from extinction. Without the minivan, Chrysler could have just been allowed to sink into the automotive graveyard.

I know a guy like this, penchant for shitty Mitsubishi cars and all. No joke his name is Kyle because of course it is.

I just hope that guy in the lead photo was cited for still owning/driving/being seen in a 2nd gen Durango.

It’s not a myth. The pawl that engages when the transmission is shifted into park can wear excessively when you park on a steep incline. It’s recommended that you first shift into neutral, engage the handbrake, and then shift into park. Doing it this way means the parking brake is performing the function of holding…

I’m in Utica and I just saw two of them in quick succession. I would have just assumed they were the same car but one had a wing, the other didn’t.

Remember the period of time not long ago when Europeans would chide Americans for our illogical preference of sedans over wagons? “Wagons are far more practical.” they’d say. For years they would tell us our preference for three-box sedans was just another example of American stupidity and arrogance. Well, what is a…

“Its width is a function of the desire to effectively block off a middle Eastern city street.”
False. The HMMWV’s width was set so that it could follow the M1 Abrams and M2/M3 Bradleys without getting high-centered.
“...SUV’s from GM are only slightly narrower than a HMMWV, though they’re still much narrower than a H1.”
F…

That poor Altima coupe

You forgot to mention how absolutely atrocious these things looked with the top up.

I’ll second that. I just bought a CX-5 and I hate the blind spot monitoring system. For one it’s too sensitive in that it alerts we when a car is a full 2 lengths back, and two it’s entirely pointless. If your wing mirrors are adjusted properly you don’t have a blind spot.

Giant fender flares on an otherwise stock wheel/tire truck. It looks ridiculous and serves no purpose.

They aren’t Daimler-Chrysler designed (Aspen technically is) but can we just laugh at how terribly the 2nd gen Durango/Aspen has aged?

Neither the Tahoe, Suburban, or any of the GM full-size SUVs have an XLT trim.

GM’s Chinese subsidiary already makes a better looking compact version of this.

Not to be “that guy” but...that’s a 1Gb Eclipse, not a 2G.

Look at the oil pressure- the truck is off and the ignition in “Run”