There’s a big difference between taking the engine up to the rev limiter, and actual over-revving which can only really be caused by downshifting.

When I was 22 years old, not only was I a horrible driver of manual cars, I also lied a lot to try to cover my ass. Not saying he’s lying about not taking it to a road course. But after a quarter mile run, manual cars are downshifted to slow down in conjunction with brakes so you don’t run out of track. Adrenaline and…

>student mechanic

the engine had been red-lined multiple times

As they should. Overrevving is 100% user error. Hitting redline is the engine’s method of preventing overrevving. Mechanical overrev is what happened with this car, apparently multiple times. One can mechanically overrev their engine without experiencing immediate catastrophic failure, also knows as a money shift.…

Car-only people are so easily impressed.

“YOU GOTTA PULSE? YOU GET A CAR!”

We took damage all the way up in Indianapolis. Nowhere near as severe, but it’s clear to me that the only place that’s safe from hurricanes now is Montana. 

Meanwhile, at a nearby Hyundai dealership, the hurricane destroyed 12 new and used vehicles on the lot, as well as 660 customer cars that were in for repairs. 

I don’t think you’ve been watching the news... lol.

Enjoy the Monster for a while, then graduate up. I’ll be honest, I am not at all a fan of the Chromo’s or the Darks for that matter. They all have to be red for me. Both my Monster and my Diavel, RED.

How far inland, though? Asheville’s at least a five-hour drive from Wilmington, and that wasn’t far enough inland to keep them safe.

The Monster is definitely a monumental bike. It figures large in the memoirs of David M Gross (Fast Company) and certainly helped Ducati’s cash flow. I think you are slighting the Triumph Speed Triple,  the other factory street fighter, although it didn't come into its own until the 1997 T509. I'm inclined to call the…

I look forward to repeatedly trying to avoid these cars being sold by shitty dealers a few states away.

That’s always been Mitsubishi’s spot, dealer/lender of last resort.

I guess at least the Hummers won’t have that issue, as their charge port is on the driver-side rear corner of the quarter panel.

There are brands and dealerships I absolutely will not consider because they’re such smarmy douchebags. Eventually it's going to catch up to them. 

I had not driven any Nissan product in probably a decade until I got saddled with a Rogue as a rental back in March. Brand new, less than 5K miles on it. There were so many rattles and squeaks and road noise, it was unbelievable. The interior materials may as well have come from a 20-year old Accord. The engine was…

They are caught in a doom spiral that is the inevitable result of cost cutting. Cost cutting leads to less R&D and cheaper feeling vehicles, which leads to needing to tap subprime and fleet sales to move metal (upmarket buyers don’t want dated cheap-feeling vehicles). The subprime and fleet sales keep the cash coming…

Nissan’s dealers are killing the company. I had a 2004 Xterra which was a great, bare-bones vehicle. Owned some other cars in between, and in 2018 put Nissan on the list of cars to look at with my wife. The dealers we visited were so smarmy that my wife was categorically turned off by them. (I didn’t love the vehicle o…