Trump/GOP is backed by the climate change denial aka the fossil fuel lobby, who want to have the entire world stick its head in the sand re: the dangers of pollution and emissions, so they can continue to make profit while using our planet as their free sewer.

I’ll keep torrenting UK coverage, thanks...

A turbo failure and a dead battery doesn’t REALLY sound that bad. Stock turbos don’t last forever...points made about parts availability and qualified help and other resources is noted, however. I guess I would not look to the dealers to handle these (most dealers just suck too much for me to take a normal car to…

I’ll add the video to my playlist!

Spoiled me, after my painfully cautious parents rejected every used car choice I showed them (I really was trying to save them money...) due to some minor flaw, I took my driving test in my brand new, just-a-few-weeks-old 2002 VW GTI 1.8T Tiptronic.

My friend had a CC, it was a great car...at VW employee discount pricing. MSRP is too much for what you really get in this cars, but maybe they can really pull in more of the A4 experience. They’d have to do lots because those are a good value these days too...

I can understand why she got out, but given where the truck impacted her vehicle, she would’ve been safer in the car.

And there you have it! 150/200 averages to 175 :P

Insult wasn’t quite what I was going for, more “takedown”, and on the subject matter. Mostly I just like to nerd out about brakes and I got a bit of swagger because I had a chance to relate something I knew about brakes to an internet conversation, and I had been reading the other comments that were more critical of…

Right. We’re also coming through another generational cycle, where there’s a different buyer out there that rejected the cars their parents drove, and their parents rejected what THEIR parents drove, so we’re far enough away from hatchbacks and wagons not being “cool”, that they’re definitely cool again with the…

I always remember 175 HP was what I was told it had when I was a kid. I don’t think I’ve misremembered but I might’ve, and I could’ve easily been misinformed in the first place. It was definitely the naturally aspirated 3.8 liter V6 that came from the factory in the 1988 model.

We used my Dad’s 89 Toyota SR5 V6 Pickup a lot, then he got a 1995 Chevy Silverado we used a lot too, but when I think of “childhood family mobile”, I think of mom’s 1988 Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera:

How can the 80s and 90s impact whether or not WRC is the best it’s been “in the 21st century”, or is the best major motorsport series going “at the moment”? I very knowingly and intentionally preempted the point you make in my comment, to avoid discussing the 80s and 90s, because I did not watch them.

While more aggressive pads do typically dust more (and wear brake rotors faster, which is a big part of the dust in the first place), the dust itself isn’t really the cause of the squealing. The squealing occurs at the smooth, constantly-polished face of the brake rotor/pad contact. Imagine running a block of wood…

In think to some extent that’s a lame self-fulfilling prophecy that car makers trap themselves in. They always say people won’t buy things, but then they’re not available for people to buy...

Pretty ignorant...Lexus put very aggressive pads on that car, apparently. When you say the other, quieter brakes “stop just as well”, what do you mean? Because I measure brake robustness in “number of full-on hot laps at maximum pace on a road course”. A small difference in pad can double your session lengths. But I…

2 comments on one article, but the 1st one was before I watched the video...

Squeaks are just a side effect of brakes that are durable enough for high temperature work, like race track use or repeatedly pulling a fast car down from high speeds. And Porsche really makes sure their brakes can handle just about anything you can throw at them out of the box. If you take a step up in pad hardness…

WRC is kicking butt now!!! I found WRC clips back in 2000-01, when my brother became a big Subaru fan (he got a WRX the first year they were for sale in the US), and finally watched entire seasons (of highlights) starting in 2009.

I drove a 4 banger one of these with a 5 speed manual! It was sloooooow!