Getting closer. Until charging facilities are standardized and ubiquitous, these still have enough drawbacks to outweigh their positives. I consider the range on this to be about 90 miles, as that’s as far as one can go and still be able to get home without anxiety. Also, 8+ hours to charge on the fast charger?

Compared to a diesel electric, yes. Very.

There’s a huge parking lot here in Houston (Sam Houston Raceway horse track) that is crammed with thousands of cars. I’ve been wondering what the deal is - I bet they are all VW buybacks. Will try to get a closer look. 

Let’s spitball here.

Perhaps you could start a business that offers a family friendly wage selling products that require no skills to produce?

When Uber came about, I thought it was a great way to make extra cash on the side. Apparently some people feel it should exist as a career path?

MSR Cresson is absolutely wet ice slick when it rains. You can push a stopped car sideways with a good shove.

That is very unlikely with a dry system, which doesn’t provide extra gasoline through the intake. It’s very common with wet systems because modern injection manifolds are not designed to flow anything but air, so when you try to move gasoline through them, it ends up pooling and is ripe for blowing up the manifold.

I did the V6 Mustang rental from Dulles airport. We put 17" R compounds on it and Hawk Blue race pads on the brakes. It ran a very consistent 1:31 on the main track at Summit Point and would have been close to the 1:29's had the 118 MPH fuel cutoff not kicked in right at the start/finish line on the main straight. …

I believe it’s a little of both. We had a resistor in place of the IAT sensor on the Mustang that was the equivalent of about 10 degrees F. It ran about 15:1 with just that and no squeeze. It was down about 10 HP on a 75 degree day due to that.

I’m sure the injectors were at 100% duty cycle and it was lean as hell, but that motor hung in there. Holy shit it could blow the tires up... Never buy a used rental car.

I spent a lot of time playing with nitrous and fuel injection for a while. The amount of overhead modern motors have with respect to fuel delivery is pretty astonishing, at least 10 years ago it was. We peaked a stock 2000 4.6 2 valve Mustang out at 470 ft lbs of torque on a dyno with a wide band sensor in the…

I can state with confidence that a 2006 Cadillac STS V8 rental was up for having a 150 HP nitrous shot tapped in just after the air filter and controlled by a pushbutton switch for a full bottle of use with no additional fuel supplied beyond the factory injectors. It ran a 13.1 in the quarter mile (Atlanta Dragway)…

It was a strap on.

Ready for bottle flip challenge!

If dad bod works for you, it gives me hope that my wife isn’t just being sweet by calling me sexy because she loves me. I’ve got the six pack under ice game cornered in my household.

Knock yourself out. He got rings.

I get a note under the wiper blade offering to buy the car 3 or 4 times a year.

This is my car. In my driveway. It has 202,000 miles on it, and has required just under $500 in repairs since new. There are few parts on this car that cost more than $50. This is the best car GM has built in 50 years.

1) A no nonsense $20,000 pickup would absolutely dominate the US market. Big miss here.