Jesus Christ yes. I have a former coworker who once drove me around in his “v4" Mercedes C250 which was also “twin turbo” but “the turbos are turned off right now.”

Yep, all this.

Yeah I can’t believe this one made it to the top, though the OP hedged things by throwing that “20hp” thing in there. Nobody ever claims that much, but of course a car is quicker with the AC off. That’s a total no-brainer. It costs hp to run the AC, and that’s power your car isn’t using to accelerate. It’s just a…

I find it yet again appropriate that the GOP is literally living out a line from an Onion article:

Yeah I’ve never really understood it either. It’s got such wussy proportions and it’s the ultimate cliche of the ‘80s movie douche but it takes none of the flack that people throw at Miatas as a “chick car.”

Wish I’d gotten in on this. I got to drive a school bus in the school bus driver olympics (a local event here) once.

“Best use of that was after I bought my first truck. I had a flat in the truck, so needed to put on the spare. The spare given to me by the previous owner didn’t fit, so I pulled the tire off the truck, left it sitting on a jack stand in the parking lot, stuffed the tire into the passenger seat of the Jensen, and…

I’ve had a lot of cars like that. The most expensive car I’ve ever bought cost me $2,300. I average about $200 a year in car repairs and have been doing this for nearly two decades now, with a lot of cars thrown in there over the years. This isn’t some freak thing. You just have to know what to look for. That’s it.

“A $2000 car is going to be a POS”

“This 1980 car has just 853 miles on the clock”

Here’s what you did:

I’d love to see the scientific cutoff point during a trip to another country that “you won’t see them again” suddenly stops being possible. Is it after a week? A month? Graphs preferred.

Yeah I found the same thing when I was in Europe in college after being just OK in the dating scene in America. Over there, suddenly I was exotic. It sure as hell wasn’t racism, because I’m white.

How does it not apply? She’s still going to be gone from there in a max of a few months, and she doesn’t have an SO there. It’s still low risk. I’ve been to the UK for “months” and I sure as hell still was in vacation mode the entire time.

What’d be great is if they just went to smaller V8s in place of V6 models entirely. The sound coming out of the back is just so much better. Take a BMW E34 530i’s 3.0 liter V8. Sounds like a V8, with gas mileage of a 218hp V6 (for the time).

I dunno man. Perchey fights like she’s got a couple teardrop tattoos. That was really more murderin’ than fightin’

Considering how the NFL handled that “incomplete” pass that never left the man’s hands and never touched the ground, I’m compelled to disagree.

I watched someone’s dad testing out increasingly risky statements about Newton’s skin color as the game’s conclusion got closer to finality. When your Super Bowl victory dance devolves from casual commentary to overt racism, there’s a chance you’ve got a problem. Most bizarre display of happiness I’d ever seen.

I’m gonna just point out that right now we have not 1, but 2 cars that can do a wheelstand from the factory.

Refreshments are served at meetings?