One of my favorite wintertime driving activities is putting snow tires on my SUV and then driving through and parking on top of the 3 to 5 foot tall snowbanks that snowplows leave behind at the edge of a parking lot.

I went through this same process a while ago using a Gran Turismo 6, and a Logitech G27. I’d say it takes a good 3-4 weeks of a couple hours a day to get to the point where you’re watching the screen instead of the gear shift lever. One thing the racing simulators don’t really do that well is pedal feedback, the brake…

I’ve bought cars with 100,000 miles before, even a former rental car because it was a great deal, and my experience has been that as long as the car has been well maintained there isn’t really much to be afraid of. That being said, for this kind of money I’d rather buy a brand new M3.

I don’t see how this could be interpreted as anything other than an admission of further guilt. If these new 2016 cars really weren’t cheating then presumably they would have no problem passing certification tests even under increased scrutiny.

After moving out of my parents’ house recently I was faced with the same problem. My solution was to use the parking lot at work, where I also have access to a two post automotive lift. It happens to be only a mile from my apartment, and about a mile and a half from the nearest AutoZone, so needing to get to the parts…

I honestly wasn’t thinking of the BMW 2 Series when I wrote that post. You have a good point, but it’s cool that with this truck and the Ram Ecodiesel one doesn’t have to give up the utility of owning a truck just to get up to 30 mpg.

This is the truck I’ve been waiting for. I’d get one with 4x4, the short box and the Z71 package, then I would install a mild lift/leveling kit. I currently do a lot of highway driving, about 750-800 miles a week, so 30 mpg (without having to drive a shitty econobox) over the 18 mpg I get in my current truck would be…

Yeah, an LS2 making 550-600 hp with an aggressive cam and swapped heads probably isn’t getting that impressive mpg. Although if you were to compare the fuel consumption of say an LT1 to a 450 HP, traditional small block Chevy V8 of similar displacement (like a 383 cubic inch stroker), the LT1 would come out on top.

I thought it was interesting when he talked about when guys put an aftermarket stroker crankshaft into a stock 6.0 or 6.2 block how it pulls the piston skirt too far out of the bottom of the cylinder liner leading to premature piston skirt wear and how GM put extended cylinder sleeves into the 7.0L block to solve that…

Assuming I do as much of the work I can possibly do by myself instead of hiring a mechanic, I’m willing to pay a couple or three thousand dollars a year for things like fluid and filter changes, belts and hoses, tires, brakes, and spark plugs that are typically needed to keep an older vehicle with over 100,000 on the…

In Ontario, Canada (where I lived until I was about 7) there is a combination of stations which are either self-service or full service. At full service stations, the attendant will pump your gas and usually offer other services like checking your oil level or tire pressures. Although this was back in the late 80s and…

Yeah, it does, except this so-called generation of digital natives has probably never even seen a cassette.

We all know how hard or seemingly impossible it is to recreate the three host dynamic of Clarkson, Hammond and May so I think his decision to change the format is probably for the best. Although, just to play devil’s advocate, Evans claiming he is a “solo artist” who wants to be the only host could also be seen as…

I think you’ve got that reversed. On a 4 wheel drive dyno it should produce the rated power and torque, and on a 2 wheel drive dyno it should detect that it isn’t being driven down the road and activate cheater mode and produce less horsepower and torque.

I’d take a $13,000 pile of burnt up BMW i8 parts over a Chevy Spark anyday.

Although the last two cars I’ve owned have been the same make and model, of different years, and I’ve been happy with both of them, I don’t think owning two of something is enough to be considered brand loyalty. I’ve often fantasized about buying something completely different for my next car purchase.

If I saw a document like this I would take my business elsewhere, because it sounds like this person doesn’t want the business in the first place.

If it’s last registration event was in April 2014 the rusty rotors could just be from the car being stored in high humidity for 6 months and not being driven regularly. I doubt it’s flood damage.

Reading through the other comments, a lot of people don’t seem to like the look of this truck. I kinda like it. I like all the LEDs and the similarities to the F-150. The vent where it says F-350 vertically is a neat detail too. I wonder if the dual rear wheel models will have fiberglass bedsides or will they be…

I don’t think that this is particularly ingenious, but in the 60s and 70s when American automakers outright lied and underrated power outputs of various muscle cars. Then again in the 80s and 90s when the Japanese had the “Gentleman’s Agreement” to only produce cars which made an “official” 276 horsepower. Although…