Subaru (i.e. Fuji Heavy Industries) makes the Lineartronic CVT in-house with some design guidance and components from Luk, a German company. In a rare move in the automotive industry, especially for a small company like Subaru, they actually designed and manufacture their own transmission at their Gunma plant.
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Recently, a reader criticized a comment I wrote a while ago in which I claimed that it harms your engine if you hoon…
I’m thinking about it more in terms of physical durability. And for me, living in the salty snowy northeast, a BOF truck is going to outlast a unibody sedan. A unibody sedan will rot out in 14-15 years here. A BOF truck’s frame could last 20+ years even in the snow.
So your mileage may vary depending on where you live.…
You can run whatever comparisons you want. Pick your trims. Knock yourself out. The important number is the percent of the vehicle’s value that remains at the ten year mark. Trucks on the whole are sitting between 45-50% and sedans are around 25%. A more expensive truck is going to have the same percentage of its…
Here’s the midsize truck one.
Here’s a rough example of some of the numbers I’ve been running on this. Even when you account for fuel economy a full size truck tends to be a better value than say, a full size sedan. A midsize sedan is a pretty good value, but the full size truck is so close it hardly matters to most people when you consider all…
Neutral: Trucks are just a substitute for land yachts. The family sedan of yore used to have a 20+ cuft trunk, seating for 6, and come priced well enough that you didn’t feel bad using and abusing it. Modern sedans just aren’t a good value compared to trucks, especially once you factor in resale value. A full size…
My company is submitting a design for this RFI, so I shouldn’t say too much here, but the core for a sub-10 MW reactor is going to be very small - maybe the size of a large trash can. DoD envisions these things being off in one end of the base, surrounded by earthen berms, and operating more or less autonomously.…
I honestly don’t get all the hate. If you’re doing an 8-hour long flight on Ryanair, that’s your fault. But I recently flew Ryanair for the first time as a cheap “shuttle” from London to Toulouse, meaning it was a sub 2 hour long flight, and I honestly don’t get all the hate. Very basic interior. Basic seats. Etc...…
Manners in Japan are tricky, complex and sometimes hard to follow—even for Japanese people.
A common complaint that I have heard about new 911s is that you cannot see the engine at all. You raise the little…
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I find it funny that some men(AKA boys) are responding all butt hurt about this. This ad gets me in the feels. This is my dad all day long. He taught me to “Treat others the way you want to be treated.” This means to me that roles don’t define you but how you act in those roles do. He taught me that being a black male…
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I am but a slave to the competitive capitalist dogma I spend every waking moment of my life bitching about.
You people keep clicking on the Supra stories! We go where we’re told to go!
The reason mid engine cars tend to have large overhangs is because they able to utilize the downforce they generate at the higher cornering speeds mid engine cars are capable of.