There’s a been an accelerating trend of putting the Honda K-series into everything (somewhat normal before; now with Gridlife and the proliferation of companies like Kmiata it’s everywhere), and that would be a good fit for this car, even if it upsets rotaryheads.

If you’re going to use hydrogen, why not a readily available, widely used and very clean fuel that already exists- like propane? Unlike hydrogen, tank pressures are “only” in the 1-300 psi range, and you can find stations everywhere you fill up a BBQ container. LPG is already widely used in Europe and even in the US…

Domestic auto manufacturing industry? You mean Tesla?

That would be pre-OBD in that case, because the CAN bus is exactly that, a network.

To be clear, nobody disputes that the person in that truck case was to blame for rolling into stopped traffic. It’s very likely that the company will also face civil suits. The problem is the punishment: all of those charges required to be served consecutively leading to an effective life sentence, far stiffer than…

It definitely does not. There’s the infotainment computer (talked about in this article), and then autopilot and drive unit systems. There are a ton of other small computers throughout the vehicle that run individual features. 

Consider yourself lucky. You only need to read some of Tom McParland’s older columns about trying to find cars for clients to see some of the bullshit that he’s had to go through, and he does car shopping as a profession.

This seems a lot easier to implement with fleet vehicles. Things like taxis and vans would be ideal because there are so many of them that a fleet manager can justify a couple of these stations scattered around a few zones. If we’re talking individuals with personal vehicles, unless there’s a standard you’re going to…

A few years ago, an inexperienced 29 year old driving a semi trailer crashed into a bus carrying a youth hockey team (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldt_Broncos_bus_crash#Legal_proceedings); 16 people died and many more obviously injured.

Mazda 3 is ideal as a “Hold me over” car and a “first car”- my wife had a 2014 BM hatch, skyactiv 2.0 with stick as a cheap first car to learn stick on. It’s “decent enough” (though not exciting by any stretch, despite what Mazda marketers want you to believe), and it is really cheap compared to other hatchbacks…

I don’t think the Honda powertrain works the same way. MB stated specifically that the engine swap was because their engine experiences performance degradation, and it doesn’t seem like the Honda does the same thing.

I don’t know of any LS3 kits out there that retain factory CAN (i.e. a working dashboard), AC, power steering, etc in the Toyobaru chassis. 

The article already links to a (pricey) K-swap kit for the previous gen platform: https://kpower.industries/collections/kpower-86-swap

The article shows a link to the K-Power Industries K-swap kit for the previous gen Toyobaru. Apparently swapping to the K-series (retaining AC etc.) drops about 140 lbs and the crank centerline is also 2.5" lower... So overall CoG is probably close but you also get weight reductions too.

There’s another argument to be made about battery capacity and it does involve battery pack longevity. If your commute is such that you can travel within around 60% of the total battery cell capacity, great. So that’s a total commute of maybe around 45-65ish miles (reduced mileage during winter) depending on time of…

knock sensors have been around forever and knock sensor detection and filtering is a “known” science for gasoline engines. This feels like a very basic mistake from KIA.

Nope, because Hong Kong is far from homogenous (though the PRC is obviously trying to stamp that out)

Counterpoint, overcrowded sidewalks littered with trash and e-scooters, constant barrage of people begging for money, waiting for crosswalk after crosswalk after crosswalk, isn’t any better.

I don’t want to sound like a dick, but not knowing any other context, the way to have handled not being in that accident, is giving appropriate space to the vehicle in front of you in the first place.

Understood. What would you say are some examples of cool 911s? I’m genuinely curious.