My local U-pick yard has free washer fluid if you bring your own bottle.

As a diehard Volvo fan I like the thrust of the this article but focusing on the marketing glosses over a few things on the engineering side. Volvo HAD to go after the upmarket in order to survive. The 240s/740s that it sold forever but really were 1960s technology. The P80 platform was a huge technological leap for…

It’s missing a pedal. With three pedals I’d be all over it especially if it had the H.O. Quad 4 although the Twin Dual Cam V6 is cool, if heavy.

Because it’s part of the head its closer to the combustion chamber, made of aluminium and when you first start a car the thermostat is closed so the coolant being there is much less of an issue.

Hey, Someone get Ballaban! We’re talking about his car’s second most important safety feature!

American cars have a huge following in Europe. Everyone loves a V8.  

DOHC 30-valve V6? I’ve heard bad things about them.

Great news! It finally is. Delivered the last one a little over a year ago.

Yes the very same Toyota that has one exciting car in their entire line up, the 86, that’s manufactured by Subaru. Who had to team up with BMW to design, and Magna-Styer to actually build it’s next fun car, the new supra. Which we’ve all be waiting for since 2002. Who cares if they’re winning races, we’re talking…

Late 1980s Toyota Maybe, but that Toyota died a long long time ago, there isn’t one fun bone left in their hulking body. Their idea of “simplifying and adding lightness” is the 4 speed automatic they still sell.

You are remanding a Chrysler product for having a four-speed auto in 2012? Toyota is selling them this very day.

Volvo 850 seats not very good!? are you mad? No car from that era has better’uns. Even the cloth ones are superb, I once drove one for 24 hours straight and I wasn’t even stiff when I climbed out. Just like the newest Volvo’s the 850 interior (especially the refreshed 1996-1997 models) are a triumph.

Wind resistance isn’t cd. Wind resistance = c_d 1/2 ρ v² A in short you need to multiply the cd x the frontal area to get a good approximation of the total drag. 

What’s missing is the torque curve, your 1FZ-FE makes 275lb-ft with much of that available pretty much at idle. This combined with the torque multiplication of the torque converter is helping shuffle the heft along.

100% this.

“But tainted is the art that comes from a tainted soul”

You too can fuck off.  

Booooooo! You know nothing about these people, other than their act of kindness and you are still trying to poke holes in it? Shame on you.

Fuck off. The amount of art we would have to discard, if we were to discredit those who harboured beliefs we today find abhorrent today, would leave us artistically barren the world over.