Awesome. I came in to post this, as it's what I drive everyday - an '04 6 Sedan with the V6 and the manual. Is it the "BEST" 2004 model car? nah, but it's probably my favorite by default.

As someone who bought a brand new MS3 last year, I'd take it back in a heartbeat if it meant I could get a 6 wagon with a manual. Those first gens were the definition of handsome

This book is part of a series!! We bought my dad "The Gas We Pass" one for his 50th birthday and he was laughing so hard I thought he was going to have a heart attack.

Agreed, it is harder to regulate those varying speed limits though. In Michigan most residential areas are 25 mph, as for the 15% increase in fatalities, this will happen unless you slow cars down to a crawl, maybe people should spend more time looking where they walk instead of looking down at their phone... I…

Chain tensioners can crap out in both directions, as I found out to my cost when mine tightened the chain too much and snapped the camshaft.

This. Father has the newer gen Nissan Frontier with the 4.0L V6 and it has a timing chain, but they use plastic guides that fail after 60k miles. Replacing the guides require the same teardown to replace the chain, and hell if its already being taken off you might as well replace it! Pointless design, when I heard…

Extra weight, extra cost, extra chance for false deployment, to solve the disappearance of, what?, the second non-combat plane after Amelia Earhart? The lost of the Comet hulls doesn't count as there was no ELT available then at all. Good for C3&A to be making money, but the benefit:cost is low for anything but…

That's the argument Boeing's making for not including them. They solve a tremendously rare problem, and carry small, but nonzero, risks.

Anything you do behind the wheel besides conducting your automobile is a distraction. We don't need a study to tell us that.

Almost looks as if the whole cab should face the rear now.

This.

Maybe airbags below the car that launch it into the air?

Yeah, I agree with that completely. Both cases are absolutely possible, and given what we know now - making a conclusion within this range is mere speculation.

one of the bigger challenges (that some people are unaware of) is that it's not as simple as just having something open the valve. in a traditional engine, after peak lift, the valve follows the cam profile and soft-lands on the seat. A camless setup will need to do the same thing else repeated slamming of the valve…

Meh. Things like camless engines and solar power will change the automotive landscape, but unless there's some drastically different way a camless engine needs to be assembled, it's not gonna make much of a difference to the manufacturing process.

A few of these entries just don't belong here.

From what I've seen, it would appear Cadillac dealerships have their own ideas about what it takes to fix the sales problem. Mainly, inflatable gorillas, wacky waving tube men, and carriage roofs and pinstriping. Doesn't seem to be working yet.

Really? no one?

Subaru Baja

Patrick, I think your opening line is a bit off. The jury found Barajas did NOT kill Banda. If they had found he had, he could have been convicted of anything ranging from manslaughter to the capital murder he was charged with.

Additionally, they found *fragments* of *a* bullet they think *might* be a .357 Magnum, but…