@Murph: I don't know about you, but I'm really bemoaning the loss of the choke control lever.
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@brickyard: I want to be a T-rex in an F-14.
@RLJ676-LS3 Commuter Car - for the environment: They're not so much defending Toyota as they are bringing some reason to the discussion. This whole Toyota "unintended acceleration" story is getting to be way overblown, and Jalopnik is trying to keep a reasonable focus. You just see it as defending Toyota because you…
@RLJ676-LS3 Commuter Car - for the environment: You're also hardly an unbiased observer in this whole thing too. If you were making the editorial decisions, Jalopnik would just be one big GM cheerleading website.
@Jim Hubert: Yeah, the only problem is that it's South Dakota.
@Ben Wojdyla: So, does that mean they radically redesigned it, or that some parts stayed essentially the same but got a new part number?
God, I hope the Spyker bosses see this. That reinterpretation of the Saab 96 is hot.
@TexanIdiot25: II The Return: I drive through rural Wisconsin and Iowa all the time, and I don't really see all that many HD trucks out there working. There's a couple I regularly see around construction sites here in Madison, with big job boxes and welders mounted on the back. And, there's always a few I see out in…
This is ridiculous. I bet that all they're doing is tweaking the ECU to give a little more boost and a little more fuel. Maybe a slightly different turbocharger and injectors than previous Duramaxes. It's hardly a shot across the bow of a serious engineering effort like the new Powerstroke. Ford could do the same…
@TRAMS_AM: The Zeta is the new Camaro platform, no? I was referring to the Mustang Cobra's IRS, which as far as I know, the only major complaint was with axle breakage in high-horsepower drag racing applications. So drag racers, rather than trying to figure something new out, just swapped in their tried-and-true…
@GV_Goat: The only advantage in drag racing is that it's cheaper and easier to make a solid axle survive under mega horsepower, and the fact that you're only going in a straight line on smooth pavement masks all of the solid axle's wonky handling characteristics.
Yep, soap opera on wheels.
@FordTuffMcgruff: The same thing happens any time the discussion of OHV vs. OHC comes up. People always talk about the SBC versus whatever OHV engine is in the particular discussion. Only problem with that is, you're not debating the relative merits of OHV vs. OHC, you're discussing the relative merits of the two…
@FordTuffMcgruff: You're comparing a poorly engineered independent suspension to a well engineered solid axle suspension.
@Cheeseslap: That wasn't an inherent weakness of an independent rear suspension, though. It was just poor engineering by Ford.
@GV_Goat: You don't WANT a live axle for anything. Anything a live axle can do, a multilink independent suspension can do better (except come in with less cost). It just so happens that the only thing a live axle can do close to as well as a multilink suspension is straight-line acceleration. And even then, only if…
@zeeboid: No one says you can't modify your car. Just don't expect to hold the original manufacturer liable when your modification fucks things up.
@zeeboid: Your story has no relevance to what actually occurred in the Toyota case. Some professor at SIU hacked up the wiring harness to produce some "unintended acceleration". Toyota can't design for that. Once you start monkeying with the mechanicals, their liability as manufacturer is out because you're no…
@Bartoni: So because you didn't meet the criteria to get accepted to Stanford, they're on your shit list now? That seems like a backwards way of doing things.