Pretty good chance that I’m missing an existing article on this, but as far as the 911s go, what’s actually “cool”, if the 964 was unloved and a beancounter’s creation? It brought about a couple of important updates to the 911 lineup (coil springs, much improved front suspension, though rear suspension remained hairy…

I know it’s tongue in cheek, but I would point out that much of Southern Ontario that shares fresh water with Michigan is actually south(ish) of it.

When I visited, there were forest fires burning near Whittier and there was visible smoke in the skies. Don’t know how often the Tongass gets set on fire but it IS temperature rainforest and the warming climate increases the risks. I don’t think you’ll totally escape fires if you’re on the West Coast.

Correct- now folks will be confronted with large scale flooding. 

“Whataboutism” is a real thing though. When presented with valid criticism, some people totally deflect it by pointing out the hypocrisy of “the other side” so that they don’t have to take responsibility. A pretty good example are the Y’all Qaeda insurrectionists what-abouting BLM protests to justify their attempt to…

If it’s only been a few weeks after you left, this guy’s comments would have been cringe; but seeing as how it’s been a year and a half since you’ve left (hope you’re enjoying whatever it is you’re doing now!), it’s actually creepy as hell incel shit. And just because of Top Gear? Talk about living rent free in…

I tried to find the article that you were talking about, because Alanis used to mainly talk about subjects like NASCAR and women in racing. I only found one thing that was negative against anything Top Gear related (other than Chris Evans, who everyone hated), was this what you were talking about?…

It’s more like “hoong chee”, literally meaning Red Flag.

This seems like an extreme compromise for the sake of packaging.

It allegedly still uses a timing belt, but with the added weirdness of variable cam phasing, a combination that is seldom seen in the automotive world

It’s actually a single turbo... somehow... without the turbo in the valley of the vee... so it would be worth Bradley taking some pictures of the engine bay because it’s going to be an ugly as hell setup.

It’s actually a single Turbo. Bradley, if it’s possible please spend as much time as possible talking about the engine, because it’s a new one from Honda and judging from patent drawings and leaked images, it has one of the ugliest turbo setups in the world (V6, single turbo, the turbo is NOT in the valley of the vee…

If you replay the video using Youtube’s slow-mo, you also see that the dude was on his phone this whole time. 

Almost a decade ago, there was an “Engineering Career Day” type event over at the FCA Chelsea Proving Grounds, where amongst other things (like autocrossing Fiat 500 Abarths and going through the offroad circuit in Jeeps), you get to be driven in a SRT Grand Cherokee and a Viper SRT. And not in a slow way either- the d…

I have to imagine cost (and maybe needing the world’s largest tank) is an impediment, but if this engine can run on propane instead of heavy oil, why does it not? That alone would substantially reduce its emissions. Maybe if ship emissions are somehow regulated (if you can really regulate anything on the open sea)…

250 kW of energy going through that plug and you wonder why it needs to lock?

I don’t think the Taycan is overweight, nor is it pricey (at least compared to the Model S- maybe if you’re thinking of the industry as a whole). The battery pack is but one part of the entire vehicle package and the weight is mostly a function of capacity. You can argue that the smaller cylindrical cells that Tesla…

Unfortunately, the conversion process is still happening at Ford... in fact it seems that with no employees to protest this decision while everyone is working from home, they’ve restarted the process. A couple of people I know no longer have their desks...

Ford highlighted that it won’t need the expense of cubicle farms, soul-crushing or no, when it spoke with Bloomberg about the switch

don’t forget the thermal goop that is also needed to maintain contact between the cylindrical cells and aluminum heat exchangers.