Sorry to go off on kind of a tangent, but this topic highlights my frustration with the ADD the media has inflicted on us. The headline GIF is a perfect example. I saw this years ago, possibly even on TV. It's been so long that I can't remember. The problem is all of the context gets stripped away and I am left…

If this is the one you mean, just search for F50 Crash

THIS is why you never outdrive your sight line. Good on the bike rider to be going the right speed, be in the correct part of his lane and having great situation awareness. Stupid assholes in the FJ need to realize that they just missed a gruesome and legally messy scene through sheer luck.

A story like this is much more likely now that cars typically only have a single belt and very few driven accessories exposed. In the good old days with multiple v-belts and a huge fan taking up most of the front space of the engine bay, the cat was usually washed away with a garden hose.

That sounds like an proper use of the technology for trucks, though I still have to question why the transmission controller can't be programmed well enough to handle this. I have been tweaking the transmission controllers in my auto-equipped vehicles for the last 15+ years to make them more driveable. The OE shift…

Using GPS as an input to the transmission? I am sure that will work about as well downtown as my TomTom does. Hopefully, it gets quickfix data over the integrated cellular connection.

The only thing better than RWD donuts is AWD donuts. Why does the headline say Burnouts?

Nobody noticed the perfectly timed braking and oppo? Not his/her first spin. Possibly his/her finest, however. That was beautiful.

It would be interesting to find out if they knew ahead of time how woefully inadequate their plywood ramp would be. The certainly knew that their inflatable barrier wasn't going to stop it. Kinetic energy FTW!

They use the same water over and over.

He heard the old myth about how beetles can float. He just forgot to turn it upside down.

I found the guy in the black hat:

One of the most unexpectedly funny things I have seen today. Thanks for making my coworkers look at met.

Nice (correct) reference to centripetal force.  I will just reinforce your argument with: kinetic energy is not a mystery, either.

Wow, that looks so similar, but not quite like the squid-ridden HWY 319.  You don't have to give your secret away, though.  We found many other good roads to ride in the area.

because planetary?

Not being sold with a 6-speed was a pretty common complaint and once the first (quite expensive) conversion was done, it became a pretty popular modification.  That single change, along with a necessary rear gear ratio change, made it seem like the car lost 1000 pounds.

That's strange, because my 1994 Impala SS, purchased in Florida as a 1994 Caprice got titled as a 1994 Caprice here in Pennsylvania.  Both of my 1995 Impala SSs were titled as Caprices in MI back when they were new...much to my disdain when I saw the first title.  Tri-9 Impala SS was a badge model.  A trim level, if…

An innovation introduced just this year?

24 hours clocks are awesome.  I dozed off after work sometime in the summer of 1994 only to wake up in a panic at 7:48 and race in to the office, all the while wondering why things looked 'different'.  Nobody was in.  Quite the Twilight Zone moment while I tried to determine what day it was.