This is extremely not true. The charge door latch on the Leaf is mechanical. You pull a handle that is cable-connected to the latch.
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Sweet Revenge, 1976, starring Stockard Channing.
She plays a car thief that only wants to steal enough cars to make enough money to legitimately buy a Ferrari Dino.
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You know, I think you have the best assessment of these cars.
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When that year first came out, I couldn’t understand how the headlights worked for the longest time. “Why, when the hood is up, are they facing backwards?” Read more
You are correct. Look at the original picture Patrick posted, and you’ll see a faint orange horizontal pinstripe above the front and rear fenders. That pinstripe outlines the top edge of the fender flare. Mustangs of that vintage did not have that flare, only the Capris.
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Hey, uh, Justin? Grammar tip here— you don’t need to put scare quotes around words if you are using them in the perfectly normal way those words are to be used. Opening a window does indeed pull, or maybe suck, warm air through your car. Nothing to be “scared” of here.
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I want what you’re smoking!
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Well, not exactly. Astronauts returning into the cabin after a spacewalk described space as smelling like something burned (like gunpowder).
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Nice shout-out to SGI, as they also went from the high of making astounding 3D graphics machines to the low of re-branding as having a new, improved font in their corporate logo after Windows machines stole their market share.
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Some people are just stubbornly stupid.
I-5 through Seattle has two-way reversible express lanes, separated from the general purpose lanes, with only a few access points. Where they merge with the GP lanes there are movable gates to control the flow.
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Hey Ben, what’s that blue sticker on the crankcase visible at about 4:30? It looks like the old Pan-Am Airlines logo (which is a beautiful piece of mid-century graphic design) but I dunno why that’d be on a Beetle engine. Is it an aftermarket parts supplier?
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Wow, fascinating! But you can then only navigate within the confines of the sheet? What happens if your starting point is on the sheet, but your destination is beyond the edge of the sheet?
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I am not 100% certain, but I believe that’s the skyline of the industrial/port area just south of downtown Seattle, as seen from either West Seattle or Alki Beach.
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What’s up with that depressed guardrail section?
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There’s a three-quarter-million-mile Mustang out there, but the Ford museum doesn’t want it: They don’t dare let the owner just drive it right onto the museum floor past a cheering crowd of people.
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I owned (well, leased) a 2012 Volt, and I think the 2012-2013 generation are the best. The ELR suffers from some really awful ergonomic/usability flaws. The CUE system is panned by reviewers, and some of the safety/security features having to do with the keyless entry/start/stop system are truly annoying. Those flaws… Read more
(while running alongside your car, in the rain, at 50 mph)
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You know, I was hounded for saying that the button for popping up the Nissan Pulsar SE Sportbak’s headlights w/o turning the lights on was so that you could WASH THE LENSES when you washed your car. People replied to me saying that the act of driving in the rain with the headlights on (and popped up) meant that the… Read more
The one that caught fire, and burned so hot that there was a very real risk of the Soviet Union sensors detecting the fire as an incoming ICBM? Yeah, scary stuff.
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