Sorry, when I read “(making) #brands #cool” and then notice that Ford is heading off full-speed into autonomous cars and ride-sharing, the word that pops into my head is incongruent.

We owned a 1975 Ford F-100 with one of these, complete with three-speed manual on the steering column, 8-foot box, and no power steering. It had a turning circle of Iowa. Also no A/C, and we lived in south Alabama. Top speed was about 60 mph before the radiator ran out of ability to cool it down. Leaked oil from that…

Did they source that gearshift at an adult toy store?

I’m a staunch privacy advocate in all cases because for every seemingly harmless app like this one, we get nutbags like the public safety advocate who wrote into one of our local papers advocating that everyone should have to share the contents of their car’s data recorder every day to determine whether they should be…

Did you get a chance to inspect them yourself? If you’re going to make the accusation that the cause of a catastrophe differed from the published findings, it’s on you to provide evidence. You can’t just say “it’s a conspiracy, man!!”, and ask others to prove why it isn’t one.

Question, since I honestly can’t figure this one out: I get the reasons for not putting harnesses in street cars due to the lack of give in the belts, how they work with safety systems, etc. What I don’t get is the focus on having to do a roll bar first. I understand properly anchoring harnesses and making sure the…

“...and others who aren’t as well-versed on autonomy saying they don’t want to spend a dime.”

I’m going to take the other road in regards to these cars: They make me angry and I pretty much hate them.

About the time this happened, I was covering NASCAR as part of my job. I will never forget the arrogance and bullying attitude of the decision-makers in regards to this case. I can only offer what my suspicions were — that NASCAR, at the time flush with extra entrants at most tracks and events, simply wanted Carl Long…

Here’s my issue: I sympathize with people who can’t get out from under fines. My wife and I were flipping channels the other night and landed on something called “Live PD” and watched an obviously very poor woman get her car towed because it was a beater — all she could afford — and it had a host of problems (cracked…

Pay their fines, learn to drive properly, etc. Or don’t drive. Sucks to be them. But we keep people off the road for medical reasons (seizures), behavioral reasons (DUI) and a host of other things. I’m sorry she’s an untalented driver, but I shouldn’t be put in danger because of her. And the fact that she appears to…

My first car! We called it the Tempo of Doom. Total shitbox.

I love that motor but if you want to turn it longitudinally you’ve got some real funky transmission work in your future. I want to say you have to get a transmission from a JDM van? It’s been awhile.

The one thing I’d correct here is that you could make it work in a longitudinal setup fairly easily. The 4g63 was the first motor the StarQuest guys really got into as a swap candidate for the G54B for reasons I mentioned in a response up the thread to RWDVolvo. We first started seeing them pop up in earnest around…

The StarQuest motor (2.6L G54B) can be made into a 500- to 700-hp monster but as much as I love that mill (and I dearly do), you’ve got StarQuest guys pulling them left and right to go to a 2JZ setup these days. The G54B is tricky due to issues with unmatched A/F ratios, weak head gasket designs and (unless you delete…

We started seeing this engine getting swapped into Starions and Conquests back around 1995-2000. Streetable 300-hp numbers were common at the time (and yeah, I was around at that time, unfortunately I’m old :p). You are correct that it had the “economy car” stigma around it but all one needed to do was take a ride in…

I could make a convincing argument that American tuners already had a healthy respect for at least one Japanese engine, Mitsubishi’s 4g63, by that time. The amount of power you can coax out of that little 2.0 is somewhat ridiculous. But if you’re limiting discussion to non-4-cylinders, then yes, this was probably the…

These ads seriously made me less likely to buy a GM car when my wife needed one. Seriously did.

Whatever you want to call it, just call it a roadblock. Point being, everyone has their own personal line of what they’ll tolerate/salute/support/whatever, and you’re not going to get over it no matter how much you try to bribe them, shame them, or especially talk down to them and tell them why they’re being so…

One of the challenges you’ll face whenever you’re in a poor, rural and Southern area (regarding how to reach them as a Democrat) is that these people are quite frequently tradition-oriented, family-focused and conservative socially. The modern Democratic Party takes an attitude somewhere between indifference to and…