That engine bay is some serious grade A looking bullshit. I figure you will forever be chasing the previous owners hack fixes, finding all kinds electrical shorts and vacume leaks. Only way to really get it right IMO is to pull the engine/trans and the entire dashboard. Completely rewire the car front to back bumper wi…

Hard to say. I just looked at a Dodge pickup (and I live where pickups are very popular), and the seller had 3-4 no-shows over the course of a couple weeks. I didn’t buy mostly because of what were likely very minor issues and my lack of familiarity with Dodge mechanicals. Sometimes, the ad just doesn’t find the…

Quite a few states do (voluntarily): Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico (2011 model year and later), New York, Nevada, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia, Vermont, and Washington (2009 model year and later).

and for those assholes looking to continue different emissions laws for different states, “fuck you.”

“If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts; if you have the law on your side, pound the law; if you have neither the facts nor the law, pound the table.”

I THINK Maryland uses Cali’s standards, so that’d explain that.

Also no one is able to disagree with something because of a fact or other rationale, it’s all “politically motivated.”

Honestly if I was a car maker I would just make the vehicles to California standard and sell them everywhere.

I’m a CA native and grew up going to grade school in the 70's.
Your friends’ stories are 100 percent correct. There were days we had to stay inside the entire day because the smog was so bad - this was in Santa Clara Valley. My first “real” job was in the summer of 1984 working for a construction company. Things were…

Having to develop cars to two different standards makes no sense and just drives up cost. The logical thing to do would be to have California take the lead on a reasonable national standard.

Of course, because this is a bureaucracy we’re talking about, it won’t happen.

...a ruling that a group of 17 Republican attorneys general is currently suing the EPA over.

As someone that went to school along the central California coast back in the 80's and visited LA a few times I have to say that the improvement in air quality in the LA area has been amazing since those times.  My roomates from LA told me stories of not being able to practice some high school sports due to air…

Worse yet, these are by the standard Gawker or I mean er uh the other webchain writers. They will come up with anything as long as it matches the quota they themselves demanded. I’m attempting to decipher how the fuck this article mattered to anyone.

How about every car that has a damaged tire shaft gets to sue who…

Slideshows went out of style six years ago. Tell that Herb in charge to get with the fucking times.

Tusken Raiders are underrepresented here. 

This sounds suspiciously like the “gravity battery” or a gee whizz alternative to pumped storage hydro

rube goldberg would be very proud of this.

why use all these scavenging robots when there are so many unemployed jawas?

Yeah, a pipe with a hydroelectric turbine at the bottom would seem to do the trick.

So...they’ve reinvented hydroelectric power to be more expensive and less efficient? Why not just pipe the water to the bottom where it would generate power then load it on trucks if you must deliver it to...place unspecified?