If employees are vaccinated (many companies have policies in place that you MUST be in order to continue working for them anyway) I can see this as being feasible.

Pretty fun as a unique off-roader that still feels really excellent on road deep into the triple digits.

I’m also going to come out and say this: the Touareg interior is nicer than the Cayenne from this time period. I’ve been working a good bit on electrical issues on the inside of my boss’ 2005 Cayenne S, and virtually every surface in that car feels cheaper than the Touaregs from the time. Surprising considering these…

I’ve seen a few V6 models with manuals, but this is the first V8 model.

This, right here.

Lowest output of a production W12 would be 450 hp. And realistically, about the same to what Aston Martin was also doing with a 6.0 V12 that was basically two Ford Duratec V6s welded together at the time in the early 2000s Vanquish. Both would eventually breach the 500 hp mark without boost as the aughts wore on.

The…

I’m not voting on this one. Price is rather high for what you get, but there also aren’t many in the U.S..

John Cadogan had a brilliant idea on this topic years ago:

That might work in some areas, but the EPA in the U.S. has required that vehicles equipped with these modern NOx reduction systems have two things: a sensor that can detect extremely diluted DEF in the tank and to also have a NOx sensor after the SCR catalyst so the computer can see exactly how much NOx is coming out…

I’ve been a pretty big Lewis fan since he was a rookie in 2007. But, even so, I can recognize that it’s not good for the sport to have an individual dominate for so long. The vast majority of fans just want to see a hard fought, close battle for the title and during races. And that’s exactly what we got.

I went through a phase in life where I didn’t have enough work and sat at home with little to do (although I also didn’t have the money to go and do rich people things—so there’s that), living in an area that is not where I grew up and thus had next to no nearby “close” friends to hang out with and do much.

Pretty amazing, especially for its time. Although it is worth noting that with two cars having an identical drag coefficient does not mean they are the same for as much ‘wind’ resistance they will encounter going down the road at speed. For that, you’d also need to know the frontal area combined with the drag…

To me, the nose reminds me a lot of the Alpine A110:

Well, being a long-time VW stan, I’m going to have to submit at least one.

150 is plenty fast for a 6000 lb SUV with a huge frontal area. lol

Sport. It changes the shift points to not upshift so early like it does in D. It also much more aggressively locks the torque converter in lower gears where in D it locks and unlocks depending on how you’re driving it in lower gears all in an effort to make it feel as smooth as possible.

The $TSLA thing is pretty fun. Their market cap is a scarcely believable $700 billion. Ford’s by comparison is more like $55 billion—those are today’s numbers. Market cap is merely outstanding shares multiplied by the current per-share value, it doesn’t mean that’s the total money a company has ever made by selling…

Holy crap! I totally forgot about the ‘swing’ feature on that era 626's center vents! My family had a ‘93 model (first year of that updated, rounded body style) with the 2.5 V6. Aside from the failure-prone 4 speed auto trans, the car was fantastic to drive. It handled well, felt confident approaching triple digit…

No, the Clevelands were a 335 family block, the 351 Windsor is much more closely related to the 302 (part of the “small block” family). Just a taller decked version of the same basic block.

Dang, I’m slipping. I would be a bad Euro-diesel head if I didn’t mention some legendary Mercedes diesels that are veritable cockroaches, and could operate just fine after an EMP blast because they have zero electronics to operate the engine.