Usually cars with roll cages perform far better in crashes (thus their use on racing vehicles) than unibody - the thickness is actually not as important (since you want some deformation to take away the force (momentum) of impact without deforming the occupants) as the shape and connections of the cage - and weak…
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Computer power and technology are the biggest boosters to automotive performance in the past half century...
This could be a chance for the Japanese to recorner the budget market like the 80's - but it will take some creativity - and probably supercapacitors
If gas prices get really bad, importing used K-cars from Japan could become a thing (25 year limit notwithstanding)
Body on frame truck SUV’s are inefficient and are dying off...
100 bucks says there was no racoon - ask the guy on video in Houston and the expected result of too much HP and someone pushing limits...
You have nailed it - (or portable nail gun, or whatever takes over if you ban one thing...)
I want my 100 bucks back...
The thing you’re possibly missing is the advent of Direct Injection -game changer for turbos.
This IS purely using government force by one person on another - because they don’t like something - exactly against your rights
Saab tried that in the 90's with a bellows type of upper block that would lift the head to lower the compression (lower to increase) and it worked but you have to guess that leaks or reliability killed it...
That’s the plan, pay only for online sky coverage - if ESPN goes to pay I’ll laugh so hard I’ll fall out of my chair. Now they have to either fix their shit right away or loose all of us permanently to anything broadcast by this douchebag of a channel...
I thought it was bad enough when Speed channel lost the broadcast but after NBC got their shit together it wasn’t bad, but Christ what a time to really f@ck things up ESPN! My negative view of that network that I thought could only get better has just gone down the toilet! It is probably too late to get the old guys…
I still drive nothing but Saab -
What CAN make a difference is unusually high or low mileage...
absolutely - it’s about freedom of speech and freedom to make anything ugly - both are right
Avoid the small percentage of models with bad chains (cheap chains) and if you can check the guides on a car that’s great since not changing oil can not only hurt all the metal parts (it can also wear the chain’s gear teeth), but will definitely wear the plastic guides to the point that the chain is too slack...
Small cars with small engines all have short gearing or final drive to seem faster, get good mpg on ratings (hwy max 65mph) but not above that - drove a 2004 Jetta with a 4 speed auto and it could have done less than 4000 rpm at 80 but would have felt slower and not changed the ratings, so incentive by current…
scratched the window...