My 3000GT mechanic would refuse to work on Z32's. The Mitsu engine bay was tight, the Nissan engine bay was worse.

I posted this before, but that's not a great dashcam to recommend.

I caught one in the act just a couple of hours ago with my dash-cam.

No. The only thing that is clear here is that GM doesn't want the tester's using unhelpfully biased language when reporting issues to the engineers. The things you highlighted contribute absolutely nothing to getting a problem recognized and fixed, and therefore SHOULD NOT BE IN THE REPORT!

Review for the dash cam:

I believe the generic Diehards (and a bunch of other brands of regular flooded-cell batteries) are manufactured by Johnson Controls or Exide, I can't remember which. I think Johnson Controls.

There seems to be a fairly widespread belief that the quality of Optima batteries has gone way down from their heyday, potentially coinciding with the decision by Johnson Controls to move the production out of the US to a facility in Mexico. I can't comment on whether this is true or not, as I've never owned an Optima…

I believe the Diehard Platinum batteries are re-badged Odyssey AGM batteries. I picked one up to replace my stock Subaru battery, and it's been a champ. It more than doubled my CCA (390 to 850), and has a much higher capacity, even though they are the same group size. No longer does my car have any hesitation starting…

Sorry, you're right, the Su-24 was the copy of the F-111, my bad.

I had a 1995 3000GT VR-4 from 2006-2013, and while at the end it wasn't the most reliable car in the world, it was also 17 years old, which means I can forgive quite a bit.

Wasn't the Tu-22M more a Soviet 'copy' of the F-111, just like the Tu-160 was a copy of the B-1A (original design, not the B-1B)?

5 articles posted in 24 hours with him in the headline, plus one of them bumped back up to the top, means it's hard to avoid. And that's just in dedicated articles. You can't mention Formula 1 without someone popping up, extolling his virtues and waxing poetic about how much he meant to them.

I'm with you. I understand how good/important he was, and I don't mean to sound callous, but all this Senna worship is getting tedious. At this point it's starting to feel like a circle-jerk. Can we please move on?

The Japanese learned that the hard way with their high speed trains. They sold some of their trains to the Chinese for their high speed rail line. The Chinese then take the design acquired through 'technology transfer', change a couple of minor details, and then market it internationally as a result of 'indigenous…

I think it's stupid only insofar as I wouldn't purchase one with my own money. To each his own.

Interesting. I was unaware at what rpm steam engines functioned at. So, if I understand what you're saying correctly, it'd be like asking a diesel to function at gasoline speeds (slow burn vs fast burn) except even worse.

I'm sure you're very proud of your degree, but you're not the only ME around here. Your degree makes you an automatic authority as much as mine makes me one (it doesn't). Just saying.

I remember reading an article a few years back (Popular Mechanics, maybe?) about a proposed 6-cycle engine where distilled water was injected after the exhaust stroke, vaporizes on the hot cylinder walls, and is used to both cool the engine and provide an additional steam-based power stroke.

It's not a car, but my guilty pleasure is taking highway on-ramps and off-ramps at higher speeds than I really should. Not so fast that I'm in danger of reaching the limit of available traction, but fast enough to put a smile on my face.

I don't really understand how people could confuse them. It's like confusing a Mustang for a Camaro. Yes, they're the same class of car, but they look nothing alike....