we drive from germany to the arctic circle in eastern finland (2500km) every year with a fully loaded FWD VW T5 Multivan towing a equally fully loaded 2t double axle trailer (with brakes) with no problem regardless in what weather. we do change all 8 wheels to spiked winter tires north of stockholm...

no it isn't. It's mentioned many times in the online safe driving course I took to reduce my insurance rates, and there's even a "STATE LAW" sign on I-84 in Stormville, NY (my hometown) (westbound) saying "Headlights required when using wipers".

Most people i see do have them on, it's the "idiots" that drive me crazy.…

Hey! You're from WI? I was the weatherguy in-charge of all of this here. I saw the night before that 500,000 TVs tuned in the night before to me saying the snow was going to start at around 10AM and a bit earlier in Racine and Kenosha. This shouldn't have caught anyone off-guard, and like you said, "It's Wisconsin. We…

you're missing headlights and taillights being ON. you can't brake if you can't see what you're braking for. Plus, lights are for others to see you as well. Think about how much easier it is to see a car in fog when it has the lights on as opposed to off. regardless of how good a car's tires, brakes, etc. are, the…

The Cadillac 8-6-4 probably has not problem getting on this list.

Cadillac V8-6-4. "Displacement on demand" before we had the technology to do displacement on demand.

You couldn't be more wrong.

i thought they already determined the break failure?

"Drag" racing was called that because they ran down the "main drag" of a town. Wally Parks created the NHRA to take drag racing off of the street and promote safety features (and the Safety Safari).

Great point. You're definitely right. I revised the story.

You mean "street racing". Street racing ≠ drag racing.

That trip to PA might be coming to an end. PA is in the middle of passing a transportation bill, and part of it is raising gas taxes to the highest in the country. They are also raising traffic fines. The only good news is that in an effort to please the people they are raising speed limits. Except fot Philly, they…

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So this is one of the most reasonable comments I've ever read on the internet.

If all that's available is a red-eye flight, guess who's taking a red-eye flight? Anyone that needs to, whether or not they are taking any kids with them. Ultimately, that's really what it comes down to.

;-P

I like that Latch anchors are theoretically safer, but it's a pain in the ass to install the infant seat on my wife's Suzuki Forenza with the Latch, and a piece of cake to just use the seat belt on my E39 (like, 2 years too early for Latch).

To you all you machismo jokers whining about cruise control or radios being useless here's a real example:

Subaru's "hill-holder".

What in the sam hell