Stingy people in high mileage Audis. They can afford to either maintain it properly or replace it but they do the bare minimum maintenance and then complain about the excessive repair costs when things break.

91 goes all the way to Newport where it crosses the border. The dots are definitely 7 from south of Bennington up to Rutland.

I had to check because that makes too much sense and found that the carbureted ones did inject oil into the carb. They still used engine oil but it should have been much better dispersed than the fuel injected versions. I have heard of guys installing premix tanks but it’s high effort low reward compared to just…

Interesting, the FC RX7 convertible wheels are usually in the $3-400 range for a set and seem to be identical other than the center caps saying Mazda.

From the factory they dripped engine oil into the housings. The oil doesn’t burn well causing carbon buildup and teardowns have shown that the oil doesn’t spread very well. Premix fixes these problems by getting atomized with the fuel, burning cleanly, and the combustion products also improve lubrication. It’s fairly…

The higher average velocity is from a small amount of acceleration applied for a very long time rather than the traditional, for space, very large amount of acceleration for a very short time. Just as these aren’t useful for launching rockets into space they won’t work very well for propelling LSR cars.

A set volume of gas has a set amount of energy when combusted, about 33.3kWh/Gallon. A specific drivetrain design might harness more or less of that energy than another design but they’ll still both create the same amount of energy out of the same amount of fuel.

13BT and hardtop.

Me too, but I’m missing A/C on both of my cars. If you’ve got it there’s no good reason not to run it before parking in the winter.

Also useful for pulling air out of the car. Put the windows down, recirc on, fans at max, and drive. Quickly gets all the hot air out of the car if it’s been sitting in the sun, or the damp air out before parking in the winter so you don’t get ice on the inside.

The only time I had an issue with the dealership for my Civic in 9 years of taking the car to them was the only time I never got a followup email with a link to the survey.

Dressing nicely has a positive impact on first impressions. Even just a pair of dress shoes, nice jeans, and a dress shirt will have a significant effect on how people treat you.

That’s not how IP law works, trademarks and patents are covered under separate laws. Their patents were made available on good faith, with a promise not to sue if you were using them to advance electric cars. Making an exact copy isn’t in good faith and would open them up to both trademark and patent infringement…

Refinery29 reports that Rag & Bone claim this actually just a shell of a 911 SC. Itt looks pretty minty and complete for a shell.

Mine:

Autonomous cars are by no means infallible — they still get stymied by rain and snow and all sorts of other chaotic, natural things, so we’ll still have to take over sometimes. At least for the near future. But that could be handled by simply not letting a car enter autonomous mode if weather conditions are…

I’m amazed a physical therapist, knowing that a car had just fallen on your head, didn’t just put you in her car and drive to the ER.

Back roads. Everybody else is cramming themselves into the busy main routes and forgets about the old roads connecting the same towns. Around here they’re light on traffic and way more twisty so I’ll add 5-10 minutes of driving time to get rid of 5 minutes of sitting at lights watching the guy next to me play with his…

I always figured it was a combination of emissions, fuel economy, and cost. Emissions have always been an issue for rotaries and the RX-8 had trouble meeting the stricter regulations at the end of production. In NA form the RX-8 was getting 16/23 mpg. The FD (along with the Supra and 300ZX) had sales issues in the US…