What would you like to see on the new Tacoma?

A buddy from high school (living in Santa Barbara) bought a used Explorer in Detroit (where I live) for $5000 and convinced me to help him drive it back to California. I agreed to go as far a Vegas and booked a one-way flight back. He got the car a fresh oil change and off we went.

You're all wrong, they're both Calibers.

I think of a burnout as a relatively stationary, straight line exercise. That was more like a bad drift. One thing you definitely don't do is practice drifting in the middle of a crowd. He's lucky he didn't hurt anyone...

GoAuto reports that Australia's Advertising Standards Board has upheld a complaint against BMW over a 45-second version of this ad recently shown at movie theaters, and edited featuring the parts where the car is basically at the redline and driving around the LA River (oh yeah, the was clearly shot in parts of…

Actually LandWind was the first Chinese car company to try its luck in Europe, some 10 years ago, with the X6. It was an Isuzu Amigo (un)licensed copy that featured bigger panel gaps. Also, in the event of a crash, it was engineered to euthanize its occupants, preventing them from suffering annoying and/or crippling…

Still can't un-see this: it looks like a snake swallowing the last bit of a 911.

Consider the prizes include VIP party access I would call that "Total Horseshit".

every single stoplight, i hit the brakes and start loading up the tranny and my wife is like NOoooooo, NOOOOOOOOO, DAMMIT!

This is something that just about everyone knows, since the number of times that regular human beings go from 0-60 is approximately never. Real speed is acceleration from when you are already rolling, like when you're merging onto a highway, or you're powering out of a turn on some backroad.

Pretty much every car is slower doing 5-60 than it is from 0-60. This is because when accelerating from a stop, you can dump the clutch at high RPMs (or brake torque the car to high RPMs if it is an automatic). When you accelerate from 5-60, you have no choice but to accelerate from low RPMs because the car is already…

Real speed is acceleration from when you are already rolling, like when you're merging onto a highway, or you're powering out of a turn on some backroad.

Is this guy lost? lol

Wait...is this already a shirt?! If so, I want it. If not, then it needs to be made now!

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I STRONGLY agree with this.

It took me a good 10 seconds to stop focusing on how easy that problem is to fix.

Probably a better celebrity endorsement for the Raptor.

The Kevin Spacey Edition Chevrolet Suburban.
Not just a special signature series edition, but also can be a marketing tie-in.

As a former mechanical engineer that had to deal with a lot of parts made from plastic manufactured in China, you have my condolences. May Foxconn have pity on your soul.