It’s a great place to start too. It’s more functional than cosmetic so you don’t have to be pretty.

Another bit of advice I have for people trying to find joy in wrenching is to avoid waiting for parts to fail before fixing them. If you need a car to get to work, and you’ve let your wheel bearing get so bad the car is undriveable, you’ve a high-stress repair job ahead of you. And nothing sucks more than…

All the torques.

But in Chrysler’s defense that was right before Daimler sold them to Cerberus, so it wasn’t like Mercedes had any incentive to spend any money on the future of a deivision they were going to unload onto an even less competent owner.

Can he afford to do that though? The Model Y, new Roadster, Commercial truck, updates to the S and eventually the X, as well as growing sales and service networks doesn’t support being able to pull back that re-investment.

They’re not trying to hide data, they’re simply saying that little or nothing should be shared before ALL of the data has been collected, analyzed, and the final report generated.

The battery protections probably prevent a battery from actually going to 0%, but because they want those mileage numbers pretty sure 100% is everything (other than those artificially limited Tesla’s, but that’s a different animal).

I wouldn’t want to try and put five people in my LEAF, but I guess it could be done if they liked each other a lot, but there is definitely a lot more useable space being a hatchback with folding seats.

Because they need every last electron to get to the 200+ mile range they’re quoting. If that 20% was reserve they would have to reduce rang since that’s not supposed to be part of the “normal” driving charge.

Or at least we need to shape this issue our way now while the the incident is fresh in peoples minds. Being vindicated a year from now won’t help, and being blamed a year from now won’t hurt as much for the same reason, people will have forgotten all about it.

I think it’s far more likely that another european car company could decide to merge with FCA than Ford. I’m not versed enough to decide who, but there’s so much legacy cost with buying FCA that I’m not sure why it would be worth it to most companies with enough cash to do so, even the Chinese.

Neutral: It’s a horrible middle step that’s more about press than practicality, people either want to control the car or not. We are at our most dangerous when we’re somewhere in between those as video after video of people trying to multi-task shows, which is all these systems do.

With the Internet today it’s far more easy for this type of thing to happen in that you can much more easily find someone who’s emotionally connected to a vehicle and has the money to feed that nostalgia. Here are thousands of people talking about something that would have at most been a tiny little add in a newspaper…

In my completely uninformed opinion this just shows that China is smarter about politics than Trump is. Nothing will turn voters on Trump quicker than going after their livelihood. Remember it’s not just those farmers, it’s the companies that handle their produce, the cities that support the farms, etc. I know many…

Don’t forget the equipment used to make those early cats happy. To make the early cats work well and improve emissions many late carburated and early throttle body fuel injected cars used air pumps to put extra air in the exhaust and help reduce emissions and keep the cat happy.

Problem is this is not sustainable at a mass-production level. They’re taking really good care of their early adopters, but they have to in order to help people dropping that kind of money do so on unproven technology.

Oh, they’ve been clear about what they “plan” to do, it’s when you want real numbers they clam up.

That’s the problem I have right now. It’s like every time someone starts to question their ability to actually mass produce a car at a “reasonable” price in volume they trot out some new R&D thing to try and distract.

Can’t really have both an opening through the rear bulkhead and a rear window that goes down, they would end up in the same space. This is more reliable and probably less likely to blow crap into the cab though.

I remember reading that the wire grills on the early Land Rover’s were often used as such. You could remove it easily with a few bolts and they would just throw it over the fire and cook on it then bolt it back on in the morning to drive to your next safari spot.