Chasing after a truck whose driver just proved he/she was homicidal seems like a good way to draw their ire.

With those miles that car has a use-by date. You won’t get 5 grand of enjoyment before it spoils.

The stewards had already boxed themselves in there. A number of drivers had made that same move at the same corner earlier in the race (Massa did it once almost exactly as Hammy did) without penalty. At that point they couldn’t rule against Mercedes without getting a legitimate protest lodged.

My wife and the…

Not for me, but if I had a kid in HS->college sure. Would want to fine tooth it to see if there are any issues from so few miles (hoses, seals, tires, etc.) but if it checks out this is a hell of a deal for someone's HS car.

Yeah, the old kickdown. Nissans system is kind of a fancy-dancy version of that where the actual detent changes depending on conditions and affects not just the transmission but the butterfly as well.

That’s pretty much how the Nissan throttle eco-pedals (or whatever they’re called) work. There’s a detent that the pedal normally stops at that with additional effort you can push through for moar powers.

BTW, they suck. I never miss them when I get out of a rental. A button would be the same.

I just use kerosene from my emergency stock. That'll remove pretty much anything and I've never had any paint issues even though everyone flips out when I tell them. Clean, strip, kerosene off all the junk, spot clean, polish, clay, seal every year before winter. Touch up sealant in late spring and GTG.

Don’t surgically declaw a cat, but definitely surgically remove it’s balls or uterus/tubes/eggs.

These aren’t priceless works of art...they’re the shitty ragged out stunt bike/atvs. People have difficulty selling that crap on Craigslist as is. Crushing them is one and done, selling them is a storage/paperwork/man hour upper with a sales downer that is probably close to breaking even.

I'm not weeping.

Not much of one since they already do that in most parts...they've been used here and there for public works projects as well, melted down and used for reefs or as components in building's foundations or steel beams.

People haven't cared about being able to perform basic maintenance in my memory going back a good 3+ decades. Good Samaritans rescuing folks who overheated/ran out of gas/with a flat/etc. was so common it is a trope. All that's really changed is that it is now more slightly more convenient when you do have to pull…

You are correct, the F35 scored the lowest on candidate risk (ie, it is the riskiest in the amorphous non-quantifiable risks). There’re lots of methods used to calculate risks (expert panels, parametric models, time phased evaluations, blah blah...not my field) and there’re entire corporations who do only that. Don’t…

Magnuson-Moss doesn’t attach 99% of the time to used cars. If the window sticker has ‘As-is no warranty’ checked you don’t get MM protections. What you’re buying is a third party extended service contract and it will have T&Cs spelled out in it which don’t necessarily align to MM. I’ve seen some that state they will…

Volkswagen Execs Didn’t Do Anything Wrong

You know, other than establishing a culture where manifest deception and violations of the law were necessary to succeed.

Lol

Ford puts full GPS capabilities in its cars but keeps the navigation option behind a paywall. Pretty much all the stuff from SYNC 2 till now you can dig around in the menus and find your Lat/Long even in a non-navigation car. It’s slightly different because there’s associated licensing costs for the maps and software,…

Not really...there were a few penalty boxes (sub compacts, Neons, Korean stuff) below, but even extreme base model Cavaliers, Civics and Corollas had crested 10k by 96.

Nah, <10k$ cars were rare in 96. From the depths of memory I think these were in the 14-18k range. Still...CP at 10k today.

They just figured everyone would be asleep by the fourth slide so it wouldn’t matter.

They're sketchy. I've had a 2010 since new (and yes I stayed on top of maintenance, and no I didn't tune it though that was originally the plan until I found out its components were made of tissue paper) and had pretty much every issue listed in this thread plus some. None that left me stranded, a couple that caused…