I “handle” cars for a living. This is pretty common on regular production cars. The drift car is better at it because it likely has very little steering damping. Tossing the steering wheel is something you get used to. When guys get into my line of work from a racing background they struggle performing the standard…

Can’t wait to see the Pornhub Grid Girls.

High performance 2 stroke race engines make a lot of hp/L, but 4 stroke small engines don’t. You’re correct about smaller moving bits having less mass and friction, but it’s not a relation to engine size, it’s a relation to cylinder size and piston speed. That’s why the exoctics use more cyclinder when they want more…

But that’s only because most bigger engines don’t have the same tech as the smaller 4 cylinders. Naturally aspirated Lambos are well over 100hp/L. A 6.5L V12 is a big engine. Ferraris 6.3L V12. The Audi R8. Porsches. Ford is getting close to 100hp/L. Torques main contributor is displacement. Powers main contributor is…

Haha yea, I was on your side for that, I just wanted to add in the Honda that people typically forget about. But also to be fair, those big engines you listed are typically less than 0.5L/cylinder. Honda made a 4.4L V8 based of the H22A or F20C design, they would have ended up with about a 450hp 4.4L.

Honda @ most ‘90s VTEC engines, 100hp/L

My favorite part of owning a Wrangler in SE Michigan is I don’t (usually) have to Dodge the potholes. Which other cars seem to hate because they don’t fair as well... Though this thaw has been bad and I found a hole in Inkster that is over 12" deep and 3-4ft long. I managed to drive over it without my axles hitting…

You are obviously not familiar with that case. She was parked sitting in the passenger seat of the car in the McDonalds parking lot and went to add sugar to her coffee when it spilled. She ended up with 3rd degree burns and it required a skin graft. She requested $20,000 to cover her medical bills and lost wages which…

The Compass is 90% diesel over there. They also sell the Wrangler and Grand Cherokee mostly in diesel.

India is going to love not having Diesel Jeeps available.

I was at the GM Proving Grounds in China and they had people with push mowers mowing hundreds of acres. Asked one of the locals about it. You could buy one $5000 dollar mower and pay someone $15/hr to do the job. And that guy has an easy job and eats like a king. Or you could buy 5 $200 mowers and pay 5 people $3/hr.…

I’d be OK with an 8 speed manual in my wrangler... A granny first gear would be nice so when I’m rolling in traffic and can just let it scoot along. Sometimes when I’m negotiating tight stuff on the road or trying to drive through snow it would be nice to not have to stop, shift from 4hi to 4lo, crawl through or…

While that is the reason, I still don’t believe any performance vehicle should come with all seasons. It should come with 3 season tires and then it should get dedicated winter tires when it’s cold. A/S tires makes the summer suck and the winter suck.

Why buy anything but a Prius with that logic! I get better fuel economy than most gas trucks and a few high performance cars. I get better fuel economy than my buddies 07 S4 manual trans... He drives further than I do.

Well I only get about 300 miles per tank in my Neon too... It gets almost twice the fuel economy as the Jeep, but almost half the tank size.

I do about 90 miles/day just in my commute...

I go through a tank every two days in my JK.

I do believe that 7200lb tow rating requires the use of a weight distribution hitch per the owner’s manual. Which explains why you had such a hard time on the ice. Front tires had very little grip. Also I’m guessing the truck is 4500lbs and the trailer is 2200lbs which means you should be 500lbs under GCWR if you…

Classic wreck. Any professional driver knows to hit a an animal dead on at speed. Everybody should know that, but I would think in the moment it’s more likely for a professional driver to make the conscious decision to do so. He says “Before I could even react, we [were] smashing into both of them sending us into a…

You missed a very important point. I don’t care about dV. I care about V. The equation should be: dVf = ((AcH+BRWD)*DM) G)+dVi