At least they have some lights on. I still see people every week driving with no lights on at all.

No, we just expect companies to stop living in the 90s and use existing technology to make it easier to get a damn ride somewhere. I can tap a few buttons on Uber/Lyft and get a ride in a few minutes, knowing who my driver is and how good of a driver they are. Or call a cab company and hope they can get to me within…

Engineer’s don’t normally have people skills. That’s why the ones who do end up fast tracked into management because they can actually communicate with people.

This makes me almost miss living in Utah and using KSL.com’s classifieds. It’s so much better than Craigslist. CL in Utah is like a ghost town.

I understand that, but it still doesn’t make me want to have Facebook.

They aren’t that slow, 7 second 0-60 mph. Still faster than a lot of cars. I had a GLK250 BT, it was one of the best cars I’ve had.

Well there’s your mistake, you bought a Volkswagen, and a Touareg at that.

GLK250 Bluetec is the way to go. I averaged 32-34 MPG with mixed driving and the diesel torque just made it effortless. It would just chug up hills in 7th gear, never needing to downshift. And it has a huge DEF tank, I had mine for 15,000 miles, and I never filled it up (I changed the oil myself at 10,000 miles, so I…

Long Beach GP is the only commonly used street circuit in the US I can think of. Belle Isle in Detroit is a street circuit in that they are public roads, but it’s in a park, so there aren’t any buildings around.

Haha what’s funny is Giant (who does make great bikes) owns most of the factories in Taiwan, since that’s where they’re headquartered. I’ve heard that Specialized bikes are even made in Giant factories among many others.

High-end bicycle companies have been doing this for awhile saying their bikes were “Designed in America” because in order for them to compete price-wise they have to have them made in Taiwan.

I can already do that without them spamming my email.

I remember reading an article from Dai Yoshihara’s chief engineer, Mike Kojima, about Dai’s old 240. He explained that he basically sets the car up like he would any road course car because at the Formula Drift level they actually need a lot of grip due to the high speeds and high HP.

I’m 31 and I’ve never used one. I have an idea of how it works, but still.

Are the statistics wrong? Probably not, but the time frame of those statistics is far to small.

Professional drift cars actually need tons of grip so they can carry as much speed as possible into their drifts and so they can put the 1000HP to the ground. It’s only the grassroots guys with 200HP cars who are trying to reduce grip.

If you look, the Flex turned right from the left lane, or crossed the median, in front of other cars waiting to turn right. So I see the reason for the honking now, though it was a little much.

I’m pretty sure the commenter is the driver in the video. The avatars look like they’re the same image.

Aggressiveness and interest in mechanical things are solely a product of their upbringing. Until recently most girls where told that women shouldn’t be interested in mechanical things because that was for men, and they should focus on more “ladylike” pursuits. My wife was even told as a kid that computers are not…

This isn’t a half-mile, it’s a quarter. It’s not written very well, but it said AFTER reaching their goals in the half-mile, they are now working on the quarter.