You’d only give an RX7 with BEEEEES a light chuckle?

You’re assuming that American drivers understand the concept of yielding. To most people yield signs mean either speed up and force your way in or weird three sided stop sign.

Proportions are a funny thing. I’m 6'3" 270 pounds but with long legs and the torso length of a more average sized person. I fit great in my Civic and FC. The little time I spent in a BRZ was pretty comfortable too, while an NC Miata is literally too small in every direction (shoulders wider than the door to center…

I do the opposite at low speeds, probably because my cars have no torque. If I want to maintain 25 in my Civic I put it in 4th where it’s still happy but even flooring it is going to take awhile to get to ticket worthy levels. Same with 5th for 35-40.

A late 90's Corolla. It had nothing to do with it being a Corolla, my hate was specific to that particular one. Through most of its 15 or so years of life it had been a grandma’s car, not just any grandma, an alcoholic grandma who only went to the grocery and liquor stores 5 minutes away. So, 12ish years later this…

There’s also the issue that combustion and exhaust always happens in the same area so the upper half won’t heat up evenly with the lower. The coolant flow is routed so that it heats the cooler portions keeping the block from warping.

The 20b triple-rotor was stretching the abilities of Mazda itself, only offering it in a single model, the early ‘90s Cosmo personal luxury car.

Manual Civic coupe.

Wow, apparently 847 were made but Citroën tried to buy all of them back and destroy them.

I’m just under 140k on a 13BT. The only real indication it has that many miles on it is that it doesn’t always want to start right up when it’s warmed up. It may have been babied early on but over most of its life it has been redlined regularly.

It’s a good idea for cash deals too. The bank will have someone who is experienced with private sales which makes the paperwork much easier, and you have a third party to count the cash, check the title, and notarize the transfer. Also a lot less sketchy than exchanging an envelope and title in a McDonald’s parking…

I have a sleeping disorder that peaked in college, though it’s still a major part of my life over a decade later. Years ago in an 8am Calc II class I fell asleep and my prof spent a few minutes trying to throw pieces of chalk into my mouth. When I found out it just taught me to not show up for his class and just do…

Since we’re talking about shotguns, the last noise they would want to hear is a pump action being cycled. At this kind of range the thief would be hit before they heard the shot go off unless the shell was filled explicitly to be subsonic. Pretty much any other shotgun would make no noise before being fired and a pump…

Identity rotary premix is labeled as “premix rotary fuel lube”. Supposedly Mazda wanted to have a 2 stroke reservoir feeding the OMP but decided that Americans wouldn’t want to deal with refilling it.

Lowercase tau is used to denote torque in physics. Seems like an appropriate name for a V8 while sticking with their Greek letter naming scheme.

How? IQ tests are scored with 100 being average and each 15 points in either direction being one standard deviation away from that. If everyone is doing better on the tests then the average will still be 100 and one deviation above will still be 115.

I love the 2002. This thing looks like my beater civic with a drop, paint, rims, and a ton of stickers.

I think there are certain cars that are just better with a manual and for most cars that I would consider buying, not having a manual would be a big enough issue for me to not buy it. But, most cars out there are not lightweight (when did 3000lb go from heavy to light?) and lower powered cars that are a blast on…

Nearly the same proportions as my FC. It doesn’t feel small inside but everything on the road is so much bigger. It’s funny how little space it takes up in parking sports.