“becausethe laws were literally written in the days of carburetors”

Sorry, I wasn’t taking you as agreeing with the flyer. Just responding to the flyer itself.

A lot. And the lifted truck, by it’s very nature having a 5.9 or 6.7l diesel, is burning far more than a little tdi 2.0. Even if it’s meeting emissions, standards for light trucks aren’t the same as for passenger cars, so it’s still polluting more

Nope, DEFinitely not.

The def was part of the retrofit, iirc

If I were a tdi owner, I would do everything possible to turn off the def system until smog (or I pass a smog station). The necessity of def is due to overregulation. When Jim Bob gets assessed a misdemeanor for rolling coal, I’ll consider otherwise and then continue to keep it off.

Uh it’s not “fitted with a cheating device”. It has software installed that allows it to cheat.

Fuck California

I think it would be cute as a parlor trick, but definitely would need a kill switch. That said, driving that car at anything above 60 mph is probably taking your life in your hands, 80's crash standards being what they are.

My back of the napkin calcs put 900 mile range worth of batteries at 9900lbs.

For long haul trucks, your regenerative braking is going to net you minimal gains (because, ideally, you’re not starting an stopping), so there’s not much advantage there. But just about any route that uses engine braking a lot could benefit.

For anyone else who was curious:

This is probably the wrong crowd for this (as we tend to like to have stuff held together with gum and duct tape), but can you remember the last time you just had an engine die randomly? We should probably add the caveat “that you bothered to care for at any significant level”.

Coloradoan here. I want to comment on the fairly unusual (if not unique) cooling situation of Hill climbs on general, and pikes peak in particular. The first thing about a hill climb is that the engine is working far harder for a given speed (read: amount of air flowing over the radiator) than on a track. And the…

Wait, why is the turbocharged 4.0 liter V8 only putting out 500hp? The RS6 was putting out 550 from a 4.0 five years ago.

My uncle had one of these that he bought when I was in high school. I got to drive it on the track as a punk kid, and oh my...I spun out and cooked the brakes, which ended our session, but the laps I did were the sex.

“traded it”

The EVO is totally different kind of car. You don’t feel like you’re in a fast luxury car. You feel like you’re in a race car that’s been allowed on the road, in most of the best senses. The car communicates things that are usually considered NVH, but are nonetheless valuable feedback if you’re trying to drive fast.

Odometer said 90k. Probably swapped the gauge cluster.

My wife totalled our vibe. Much sad. We replaced it with a scam RAV4 (told us it was 90k miles, was actually 200k miles). The more recent purchase has been the xrs. Favorite Toyota yet.