I tried a Husqvarna Vitpilen 701 this summer. It was hilarious, my face cramped from all the non-stop grinning.

Eh. Good-looking, lithe bikes, great! For beginners.

I was under the impression that the 911 was such a worn cliché that the only people who have them are those dedicated enough to endure the shame. At least over here in Sweden.

Door opens.

In a truck you have ample space for large gearboxes and big-diameter clutches, which decrease the required axial force. In a car not so much.

The epicyclic gears in autos are generally much stronger than equally sized parallel ones in manuals. Here, Wikipedia explains it better than me:

The “strong car = small dick” insult doesn’t really work if the owner is in fact very generously endowed.

Nah. It was more like it was indecisive about what gear to use.

I had an NG 2011 9-5 and it had quirks alright. Not all of the good kind.

I didn’t like it in my E55. The fifth gear was only ever so slightly taller than the fourth, which made no sense. It was not an overdrive and the computer happily threw down a gear as soon as I looked at the throttle. No burly torque-muscling along the straights, as soon as you touched the pedal it jumped to 2500 rpm.

Constant rpm, power is pressure regulated instead of speed regulated.

See here:

My dear friend Johnny, whose head spins like a radar turret, and every 20 seconds go off like

I have always wondered what I am supposed to do with the information that the car in front of me has a 1.6 liter engine.

Porsche 911 Safari.

Describe what a thing does, not what it’s made of. Technical rule of thumb.

My Camaro with the tractor cam and the otherwise hot parts. Pulled clean from 700 rpm.

Actually, an occasional overload tends to halt crack propagation and is thus beneficial for preventing fatigue. Provided that the stuff doesn’t fail catastrophically, of course.

No, it couldn’t. Did you read what I wrote?

When I see these I get the same feeling as when I go to an airspace museum. There are mechanical devices - doors, windows, handles, dials, suspensions, ducts and gizmos - that are sorta familiar, yet so weirdly different and designed for extremely different conditions than what I am used to.