You think Cowgill is terrifying, if dexterous, driving forwards?

I grew up in the family auto repair shop and then became an engineer and went to work in the auto industry. Oh, did I catch hell from my cousins.

Citroën fan in general, BX fan in particular, and Group B lover. But I would still never ever call the BX4TC gorgeous...

Any Ferdinand Piëch fever dream engineering. Like shoehorning a LONGITUDINAL 4.2 V8 and twin-turbo 5.0 V10 into the engine bay of a midsized FWD sedan chassis. This made the 2005 to 2012 Audi A6/S6/RS6 an incredible car to drive but horrendously complicated to maintain.

“Engineers will climb over a mountain of naked virgins just to fuck a technician.”

I recently disassembled a Fiat 500 and the wiring design must’ve been done by an intern. For reasons unknown (unless any of you have an idea), instead of going to the nearest chassis ground, many of the ground wires ran up to the front of the car, around the corner, and then back to the opposite side rear of the car…

yep, luckily it’s iridium spark plugs that needs to be changed every 90 000km only. But still.

French don’t drink that shit.

“What’s the cross-section of Conservative/Christian/Nazi?”

It’s nice to see the US does not have a monopoly on morons.

Unfortunately, that would be playing into protesters’ hands.

It was made clear in the article, and it’s appeared here often enough too, that prices in the UK and most of the world include all taxes. In this case you have import duty which I think is 10% and VAT at 20odd% plus the costs of sourcing the vehicles in the US and shipping them in small numbers. On top of that they…

At that price, isn’t it like four new Nivas? Which, really, that only strengthens the case for the Niva.

I’d rather get a brand new Lada Niva

The lack of human understanding of what a machine can do goes back forever.

“It also seems they may have taken a page from American dealers on markups.”

Yep. 30 knots is fast for almost any vessel. I remember on a particular dive trip, being out on a dive boat with two 300 hp marine outboards, and we were FLYING along the water. I glanced over at the GPS, and it noted we were making about 25 knots. Both engines going hard, calm seas, with the wind and current, and…

I haven’t been in any vehicle with any kind of driver assist akin to what’s talked about here or in Teslas, etc. but I have to think that, done correctly, with your unfettered focus on what the car’s systems are doing, at the ready to take over at any moment, would be more tiring/numbing than actually doing the…

That requires actual journalism. Something missing from this site unless the writer is named torch or Tracy

I gave up this site after years because the writing has gone so far downhill. Check it out again for the first time in weeks, and I’m treated to an article so meanspirited, so devoid of actual information on shipbuilding or yachts, and just dogging a guy with the laziest of personal attacks, that you got me…