I agree that Vietnam is awesome, but must respectfully disagree on 333. It goes down decently in the oppressive heat, but there is a terrible aftertaste, like you wrung out your soaked socks off in your mouth. But to be fair, the alternatives (Bia Hanoi, Bia Saigon, and Biere Larue) pretty much taste the same.
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Reminds me of a friend who drove a completely base ‘94 Accord DX in high school. It was equipped with many blank buttons, but the worst was the A/C button. Car didn’t have A/C of course, but Honda still felt the need to equip a non-functioning button labeled “A/C” right next to the fan speed knob. There were many a…
Ugh, I hate those stupid dealer plates.
Car & Driver’s review of the 2014 Ram ProMaster 1500 EcoDiesel. The highlights:
I’ve seen incompetence from the quick-y lube places before, but this is ridiculous.
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I just don’t see this being a big threat sales-wise. It doesn’t make much of a value play starting around $40k; a more capable (16k lbs towing, 3300 lbs payload) F-250 XL diesel starts at around $40k, and a similarly-capable F-150 XL 3.5 EB (12k lbs towing; 3250 lbs payload) starts at $30k. It doesn’t seem to break…
N: Since we’re getting a bit tired of throwing money at the wife’s 15-year-old Civic, a new car is likely in the works in the next six months. She wants more room but hates big cars, so we’re leaning toward a C-MAX. With cheap gas the incentives are good, and I have a feeling $1.69 unleaded is not long for this world.
Hill descent control gets a lot of hate?
That was great, you really kept up a nice Tempo throughout the post. And I agree wholeheartedly, the SVT Focus was a bit of a Maverick for Ford at the time, and it really didn’t last long, gone in a flash like a bolt of Lightning. But for SVT Focus owners, who didn’t want to be Contoured into a specific mold, the car…
I remember this horrible Thanksgiving back in the late-80s when I was trying to get home to Chicago from a meeting in NYC. The trip ended up taking three days due to a litany of problems: weather cancelled my flight, my train broke down, and my rental car was impounded by the cops after it caught fire. Ended up…
And if you want to go a different route (and you can find one), there is the visible turbo.
Not to mention throughout the entire movie the guys winning all the races (Cole, Rowdy, and Russ) do nothing but slam into one another, resulting in cars that are literally losing their bumpers and spoilers.
Other kids’ games are all such a bore!
They’ve gotta have rules and they gotta keep score!
Calvinball is better by far!
It’s never the same! It’s always bizarre!
You don’t need a team or a referee!
You know that it’s great, ‘cause it’s named after me!
The TwinForce name was never used outside of show cars like the Lincoln MKR. Ford marketing decided TwinForce didn’t resonate with buyers concerned with fuel economy, and re-branded to EcoBoost in early 2008.
Update: And as Automotive News’ own story points out, this appears to mean the end of most Ford car production in North America by the end of the decade, save for the Mustang and Lincoln Continental:
Gotta be honest, I always thought the look of these Swiss cheese wheels was great.
The ending of SPECTRE felt exactly like the intended end of O.H.M.S.S. The beginning of the next movie will have Bond happy with Swann and done with MI6, but Blofeld has Swann killed, an act that pulls Bond back into the service.