Going straight to the source is logical, just like the storage lot thefts in the US. The cars were destined for either a chop shop or export to no questions asked country 

No car at all. I do my leaf peeping from the saddle of my mountain bike.  Granted most.of Central Oregon is evergreens but there's quite a few trees along the Deschutes and the Metolius Preserve has the Larch Trail.

Autonomous cars, transport pods and most other gadget bahns don’t solve transit problems. They either clutter the streets even worse that they or cost a bomb. Busses ttrolley busses,, trams and trains are efficient,  proven and the first two are cheap.  The problem is having to rub elbows with the commoners. In a low…

I put Michelin Defenders on my Mazda CX-5 last year when the OE Yokohamas wore out. They do handle a little better but freak out the indirect TPMS on gravel. My father in law put a set on his Audi Q3 and raved about them. Admittedly we both bought Defenders because Costco had a good  deal. I  also run Blizzaks in the…

I’m not surprised, some rail signal systems are even older. The Victoria line in London ran automatically on analog hardware from the late 60s until 2011 when they were retired and digital signaling was introduced. Building something on 5.25" floppies was surprising but DOS wasn’t a bad choice in 1998 since it was…

The air cooled Chevrolet from the 20s that was so bad they bought them back and scrapped them comes to mind.

Yet another reason to avoid California.  I suppose it could be worse LA doesn't have as many chokepoints as Seattle 

but do you get gas there

4Runners aren't as overpriced as Landcruisers but this still too much ND

I might be interested if there were BP stations locally and Costco hadn't opened a new gas station Saturday.  That should save because they are among the cheapest and the rest of the time I can cash in Safeway rewards at Chevron. 

This has been a big deal in IT everywhere.  This is a nefarious version of the guy who hired a consultant in India to do his coding job. 

The Ford 500's crossover cousin the Ford Freestyle also used a CVT. These cars share the Volvo P2 platform with the S80 and XC90 but Volvo had the good sense not to use a CVT.

A separate AC control to turn the compressor on and off was normal for the time. My 74 Volvo had a rocker switch for AC separate from the rest of the heater controls. Most of my older cars had a separate AC button, but it was on the HVAC panel. Even my most modern car has that. AC is a button in the temp knob.

I did say send extra people,  just not in a fire engine.  Bariatric stretchers, wheelchairs and ambulances exist and are an unfortunate necessity 

You can add ALPR cameras to the Panopticon. Arss Technica has an article about a lawsuit against Norfolk Virginia and either the text or comment cites a prosecutor scanning a clinic for out of state plates

My son and his friends are among the outliers. My son bought a Toyota Corolla project from a friend specifically to have a manual transmission car. One of his friends is a truck driver and can float gears in his gasoline tanker. Also it's never too late to learn.  Mom was over 30 when she learned. 

This seems more like a “catalytic converter test pipe” than a Gllock switch sold as an airsoft accessory on Alibaba.  (every gangbanger in Chicago has one)

Over promise and under deliver it's the Tesla way. 

Is that a,factory R5 Turbo or did some mad lad build his own?

Apparently Russian dashcam videos are coming to NY. Jalopnik had some articles about just this thing in Russia a few years ago complete with OMG he had a dashcam