My father has one of the least reliable BMW’s in recent years, an ‘09 750Li. He has nearly 200k miles on it and tracks it regularly. According to the dealer his car has, by a huge margin, the fewest problems than any other F01/02 they service, and any N63 with anything near his mileage. I think part of the issues…

If I’m being realistic, an entire e46 M3 drivetrain in my ZHP. If realism isn’t necessary, a S58 in my ZHP. I like me some straight sixes...

the Miata’s engine is shared with basically the entire Madza lineup, the diesel pickups share their engines with larger commercial vehicles, the i8 shares it engine with the base Mini Cooper, and the 760Li shares its’ engine with all of Rolls-Royce. Only the Century V12, which has since been cancelled because its not…

I find it deeply disturbing that I, a normal person with zero expierence with towing or driving large trucks can legally rent a 26' truck(which is 34' long) with a 15' trailer, totalling ~50' of articulated vehicle. Also that those people driving coach bus-sized RVs require zero training to legally do so.

I had to drive up from just north of Baltimore, MD, to just west of NYC in NJ. I was muttering curses under my breath against Uhaul most of the way there.

It did not. It was a bit pokey.

Came here to say the same thing.  I ordered a 20' and when I got there they were out of 20' ones, so they ‘upgraded’ me to a 26'.  I barely had enough to fill a 20', so I wasn’t the most pleased about it.

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I agree about the 5-point being safer under most circumstances than a 2 point, and given a choice between just those 2, I’d opt for the 5-point. A 5-point will be safer than the 2 point in everything but a head on and a rollover, and the headon is basically a tossup(5-point might be safer for low-speed stuff, but both…

Seats are no more designed to take that load than you head. At best you’d likely be splitting the load between you seat and head. And yeah, ideally you’d have a rollbar in there for rollover protection. Since it’s a street car, you can’t fully cage it(you could do a half cage in the rear, but then you give up the rear…

I’d debate that in this case, where you have a rollover and a roof collapse. If you’re in a bucket with a 5-point your head is going to be the primary structural element that attempts to hold the car up. A lap belt is going to allow you to be folded in half at the waist. Neither is a good option, but I’ll take getting…

In the absence of a helmet and HANs device, a 5-point is inherently less safe than a 3-point and an airbag. It effectivly makes your torso one with the seat which, in an accident, causes your head to move without your torso causing all kinds of spinal injuries, up to internal decapitation. Also, as others pointed out,…

Not legal for street use means you’d have to wear the 5 point AND the 3 point to be street legal. That’s the real reason why most people with 5-points just wear their 3 points.  And a 5-point, in the absence of a helmet and a HANs device is very likely to cause spinal injury.

From what I understand, the tank itself is 16.6 gallons, but the hose to the tank can hold close to another gallon, hence how I can get 17+ in the car.  But that’s only when I’m pushing it, I try to fill up around 15 or so.

If I fill up at zero, there is usually a gallon more than the stated capacity going in the car(17.5 in a 16.6 gallon tank). And if it actually does hit zero, I usually have less than 5 miles before I run out. I have inadvertently proved this twice now. It’s dumb to drive to zero, fill it when the light comes on.

Running virtually any fluid pump dry will cause damage and quickly, they aren’t designed to be used in that manner. Will it blow up right this second? Probably not. But lets say you’ve got north of 100k miles on the pump, and this isn’t the first time you ran it dry? You might just manage to kill it.

It was due to the play being in bounds. The 10 second runoff would, if properly applied, actually saved the Saints 5 extra seconds. As it was it took them from 41 seconds down to 26 to get the next snap off. The review changed it from 4&1 to 1&10 and should have put them at 31 seconds.  Given that the ball was spotted…

We will acquire used helicopters piloted by an autonomous organic AI hybrid system to disrupt the airborne taxi industry.  Blockchain.

Calling what Autopilot does is not incorrect, it does the exact same thing that the autopilot on a plane does, which is to say it holds a course and speed until a programmed point or something goes wrong, at which point it triggers alarms for you to take control. That adequatly describes what autopilot in a Tesla…

I used to pull up to the pump, start the process, then go in place my order, depending on the line I might pay, then go back out finish up pumping gas, then pull into a parking spot go back in and grab my food. WaWa pumps are painfully slow and I almost always need 15+ gallons of gas, so it’s rare that my car sat at…