The lie I tell to myself: that I’ll be able to finish [any project] I start Sunday after lunchtime before the weekend’s over.

Minivans are the cargo shorts of cars. They fit everyone with plenty of room to spare, they can carry all your stuff, they’re comfortable, and they open in cool ways.

“Hey honey, gotta work on the car today. This should only take me an hour or so, and I’ve got everything I need already.”

I vote NP.

I guess I’m going to be the contrarian here. Something will eventually need to be done about China demanding an unequal playing field, especially with regard to intellectual property rights.

Displacement goes down by a cube of the scale. 1/27 of 6 liters is .222 liters. I’d say they’re pretty close.

I’m guessing it has something to do with the surface area to volume ratio of the engine. The dimensions of the engine all being 1/3 won’t mean that the engine’s displacement is also exactly 1/3

I am confused by the .216 liter engine being 1:3 scale of the 6 liter engine.

It’s a desert runner, but mainly a dick-swinger. I’m jus’ sayin’.

<Truck commercials have misled me to believe these vehicles should be able to cross this terrain.> 

3rd Gear: I can understand GM and RAM’s thinking with keeping with steel. The repair costs for aluminum are still a lot more than steel. But for weight savings I can see them replacing other parts sooner or later with aluminum and keeping parts that are used heavily as steel such as the truck bed.

No, David Tracy.

Aluminum doesn’t rot out like steel, plus they don’t salt the earth like we do in at least 2/3 of North America.

So you take an off-road performance truck, take away it’s ability to really haul anything and go off-road, and just make a drift truck instead?

I certainly have, I’m one of those clinically insane TDI lunatics that’s losing one triple square at a time.

They use 21700 cells now. No more 18650s.

Do you really think I’m a mouthpiece for China. Seriously? You must have missed the sarcasm there. Nobody should really take that seriously as advocating China’s talking points. Just pointing out what is being said around the world.

Really? I’m more pissed that VW execs who headed the whole thing are chilling in Germany right now. They willingly/intentionally broke federal law for years in the game of “german engineering.”

This pisses me the fuck off. GM and Takata employees can get off scott fucking free after causing deaths (through both gross negligence, and I think in Takata’s case: intent), but an engineer who made the whole of EPA and CARB look like idiots get sentenced to prison???

“realized that they could not design a diesel engine that would meet the stricter U.S. emissions standards.”