If you lose a finger, you just start using base nine, and BOOM! Base nine suddenly becomes base “10”

Back in the day, when we called a 5.0 L by its true name - a 305 - nobody would have ever called it “giant.” Anything deserving the name “giant” would have to be BIGGER than a 454 (7.4 L if you prefer).

3 driving gears + 1 ultra-low “crawler” gear. Overdrive is overrated; it’s right there in the name. Yeah, I drive an old Chevy pickup.

Only from neutral to 1, unless you’re lazy.

Shouldn’t the person who complained be the one in “sensitivity” class?

The best fun in a car is when you can pick it out in a parking lot. You can’t accidentally mistake your vehicle for another. When you drive by, somebody turns their head because it’s something they don’t see every day. I saw a pizza delivery boy the other day driving a bright red hatchback, lowered with paper-thin…

I’ll see you that ruined clutch and raise you a worse one:

Once upon a time, an “overdrive” was a separate device (usually positioned behind the transmission) that increased driveshaft rotation speed, and of course reduced torque sent to the rear wheels. E.g. on my Chevy 4-speed manual, 4th gear is a 1:1 gear ratio; an overdrive unit would give me lower effective ratio for…