I really want to break out Rally Sport Challenge now. So many hours into that game.

The long hood version fits the “If the driver’s head is in the rear half, it looks cool” rule. The short hood version just looks Soviet.

I work at an Ag equipment company. Our “pre-production” units go through the production tooling, are welded by production welders, and go through production paint. We just watch them more closely. Final assembly, however, is done by the actual engineer(s) who designed it to make sure things fit together as intended.

I don’t know why I had to scroll all the way to the bottom before finding one of these.

In my experience with EcoTec engines, they don't have any trouble holding a car with the clutch in the friction zone for the half-second it takes to move from brake to throttle. Wouldn't do it pulling a trailer though.

I saw a TV ad for a dealer around here,

11.) Absolutely this. My wife and I were touring Europe last August and rented a Clio with built-in GPS. It worked perfectly the entire time. But when we were driving from Munich to Interlaken, Switzerland we soon realized we weren’t on the path we had intended. The GPS was still set to avoid toll roads (which the…

A wagon also has a real window after the second door, not just a little triangle.

I think I'm going to make sure I have an auto-pay set up directly with the bank, then give NPN (looks like its Crossroads Financial Technologies now actually) a call and get it shut down. Name drop the FTC if I need to. Attorney would be a last resort.

I'm a little irate right now. They got me on this when we financed our car. Asked if we wanted to do the bi-weekly payments, not realizing it would be through NPN/not the bank. I didn't catch it. Now I need to figure out how to get out of it.

The Jalopnik crowd is usually better at understanding how vehicle dynamics work. Blind hate on this though.

To my eyes, the fender flare is a little different, but otherwise almost identical. The 150 shape goes in a little but the super duty doesn't.

IDK what you are talking about...

A tablet. It is a couple of years old now, but I have never been able to find something it is actually useful for. I did read books on it for a little while, but that was its peak.

Wow, that much welding is completely unnecessary and asking for a bunch of warp. 2-3 half inch welds are enough.

I would guess they get a lot of instruction to recognize when the vehicle is making a mistake, and correct things, before it gets out of hand. The short training time vehicles might only go autonomous on the interstate where you just have to make sure it stays in its lane and doesn't merge into anyone.

Vibrate the windshield.

White Balance settings on the camera can do this too.

edit: nevermind

On a Hyabusa engine (and almost all motorcycle engines)*, the transmission is integrated into the motor case, even sharing oil. In the Smart car conversions, they use a chain driven differential. The sequential shift combined with a quick-shifter would be a blast in a car though.