Virginia International Raceway, here.  It’s almost in my back yard at just an hour and a half away.  But it’s also the only track I’ve ever driven.  In that respect I’m spoiled.  But I’ve also only ever heard amazing things about Watkins Glen.  I need to get up there!

If this kind of truck fits your needs, it’s an NP all the way.

The big thing is towing capacity, since it’s built on an F250 SuperDuty platform. With the diesel, it’s got an 11,000-lb capacity when used with a weight-distributing hitch.  I use my Excursion for towing my 24-foot car hauler trailer.

It’s for this reason that I cannot bring myself to ever own a Tesla. Musk and the marketing name for the feature clearly overstate the capabilities of their product, and people die as a result. I have no idea how or why it’s legal to allow Tesla to use the public as their guinea pigs. We would NEVER allow a pharma comp…

Funny thing, anyone who lives on the drag strip will bag on manuals. It’s so much easier to be consistent with a good automatic when it’s consistency that matters. So they’re not the end-all, be-all.

This isn’t the only case in which the Tesla system would need to handle LED lights in the modern world, though. Vehicle brake lights, traffic lights, signs for businesses, and a great many others are all LEDs these days. A common way of dimming LEDs on DC circuits (PWM) can cause flicker, and LEDs on the electrical…

Absolutely agreed. If I cannot trust that the car can handle *all* situations, and I am unsure when and where it will fail and how badly, then in order to be safe I must necessarily assume it cannot handle *any* situation. This means if I owned a Tesla, I would not use Autopilot for 99% of driving. It’d be a toy…

I still want an M6 Gran Coupé. I love the lines on that body style.  But its death is, sadly, sensible.

I think it looks like an Acura Camaro.

I’m thinking that’s a mixture of oil and coolant.  Either a badly failed head gasket or a cracked block.  That motor is probably toast.

This is one of the things about Tesla that does still surprise me a bit; specifically, that they don’t get *more* flak for it.

From an engineering perspective, this is brilliant. Assuming I understand, that is. Here’s my whack at it.

I don’t understand Nissan as a company. I had a rental 2019 Maxima this past week. It makes a great Camry competitor in that it feels no more substantial, special, or sporty than that car; and for a vehicle that *starts* in the mid-30s, that’s unacceptable. No matter what you pick up or pay, their cars are either…

Surely, this was a “golden” opportunity:

Agreed. I think I’m pretty darn good. But I have no idea how I actually stack up relative to other drivers. Coming up with an absolute measure for driving ability is also rather tough. So I’ll readily agree that I’m only human and I make human mistakes.

Disagree, quite strongly.

To the best of my knowledge, adjusting control arm bushing preload (I’ve also heard it called ‘indexing’) should not be necessary on a standard alignment, since the ride height of the car has not changed. Did he put on lowering springs or something?

So does that engine placement make this car ... Front-Mid-Engined?

Absolutely, the Earth’s climate changes on its own, but over eons. It was an Ice *Age*, after all. The concern with Global Warming/Climate Change is that we’re changing the Earth’s climate more quickly - about 200 years versus 2000 or 2,000,000 - than we or the critters we know and love can comfortably adapt. So…

Speaking from experience, I actually have to say my E60 M5 is easier to service than my E36 M3.  I can get a wrench on every bolt in the rear suspension.  Swapping the rear sway bar took me 20 minutes.  Even removing the intake plenums from the 10 throttle bodies is relatively simple because BMW has service marks cast…