This is the first time I’ve heard of a cruise control system (other than “adaptive” CC if you get too close to the guy in front of you) using the brakes. It certainly doesn’t in my car: it coasts if I’m going downhill, and can actually speed up if the hill is steep enough.

It’s regional.

I hate to stereotype, but I’m gonna do it anyway: I would be far less concerned about a 16yo girl driving a GTI than a 16yo boy.

“He reportedly made the comment in between off-hand sketches of a teleportation machine and an anti-gravity device.”

The fact that we have to ask this question says something about the current state of computer graphics.

Presidential candidates aren’t legally obligated to release their taxes. There’s just a lot of precedent for it, and it was assumed that would damage his candidacy (though it appears not to have). This is an actual law he’s breaking now, which would be a bigger deal if the GoP controlled congress actually cared about…

Mohs is a measure of hardness, not strength. They’re unlikely to scratch, but they’ll shatter.

RIP

Private is an understatement: I didn’t even know she was married, let alone had a kid, until this week when the divorce story broke. I looked into it a little, and she basically vanished from view for the entirety of her pregnancy so that it would not be news.

Even those cars are big in many parts of the world. A friend of mine just moved over here from France. He has a kid and told me he’d be buying “a people mover.” I’m picturing a crossover or minivan, but he meant something like a Golf hatchback. I would imagine that Japan, with its 660cc kei cars, is similar.

I have heard that driving a big, American luxury car (Buick, Caddy, etc) in Japan is a sign that you are either a dentist or a gangster.

using an obscure half-metric/half standard wrench. Something like a 12 3/8 mm proprietary nut.

Yeah, I feel like this is a wasted opportunity. It used to be that a stick was the cheap option, but that’s not absolutely necessary. Put a nice manual on the top trim and charge us a premium to pay for development. I would own a 2016 Forester XT if they’d done that.

That too. When I was shopping last year, the dealer selling one of the cars I looked at told me I could either buy it with a return policy or an employee would need to come with me for the PPI. If I’d taken that as the red flag it was, I would’ve saved $75 on the inspection.

Well no... Acura does that.

I guess I misunderstood what CAGS was. I thought it was that thing on modern manuals where it tells you when to shift.

I’m not saying it’s the wrong choice for what you’re doing, but any part an automaker produces for a mainstream car is going to be made by the millions. At that point, printing is just the wrong technology (at least for the moment).