In order to not drill some holes in the front bumper cover, some people use a license plate frame that screws into the tow-hook mount which is usually offset to one side of the car.

I sure didn’t say you earned a degree. Anyway, I’ve had an electrician argue the two-phase versus single-phase nomenclature with me here in Austin, Texas. In an electrical supply shop. When I was trying to buy something. The guy behind the counter agreed with him. It was definitely an, “I’ll call it whatever you want…

And what your wikipedia education won’t tell you is that electricians in some areas will refer to 220V single-phase as 220V 2-phase, regardless.

A typical house in the U.S. get 220V single phase split into two 110V phases 180 degrees out of phase with each other with a neutral from the center-tap, typically grounded at the breaker box. If you take the two 110V phases (ergo 2-phase) you can use them as a single-phase 220V supply. Most high power things like…

Many of the design and engineering decisions for the C4 were driven by bench-marking against the Porsche 928.

“It’s also got...” should be “It also has...” “It’s” is the contracted for of, “It has”

I clearly need more coffee...

That is non-clinical diagnosis of OCD which is really garden variety forgetfulness and normal anxiety. Best treated by developing invariable habits or, and this is what we are talking about doing here, creating an environment that disables triggering the anxiety. I find it astonishing that you might be some kind of…

That is non-clinical diagnosis of OCD which is really garden variety forgetfulness and normal anxiety. Best treated…

You can tell how much power is going to a wheel by how much current you are delivering to the motor at the voltage supplied or vice versa. It is quite a bit more direct and accessible that with an ICE and diff.

I guess you don’t get that my OCD makes me turn around and check to make sure my garage door is closed. Something like this could reassure me my garage door is closed or let me close it on the very very rare occasion that it wasn’t.

I guess you don’t get that my OCD makes me turn around and check to make sure my garage door is closed. Something…

For me it is not that I forget to close my garage door, it is that, three blocks away from home, I forget whether I closed it or not (I almost always did). I have so much on my mind leaving the house to go to work that all these things I do on autopilot go un-noticed but my OCD kicks in a short while later when I…

For me it is not that I forget to close my garage door, it is that, three blocks away from home, I forget whether I…

Yes, they are, academically speaking, concentration camps. However, it is disingenuous to not acknowledge that many if not most Americans connect those words with, “Nazi death camps,” which neither these nor the camps used in WWII to house Asian Americans were. The term we used then and now is typically, “Internment…

Get a bit older, develop a bit of OCD, or both. That’s how.

Get a bit older, develop a bit of OCD, or both. That’s how.

I expect we will yet see some technologies like solenoid valve actuation make their way to production cars.

I wonder what we would need a new V12 for, though. More power? Nah this has plenty for the intended applications. More efficiency, maybe? Just to keep journalists happy? Most likely.

The gig economy is not indentured servitude.

There are mistakes and it’s probably not cool to try to take advantage of such obvious mistakes. And then there are ridiculously low prices that are advertised with no intention of honoring them completely on purpose. I bought a car a few years ago that the dealer advertised at a very low price but when I got there,…

The coupe still looks like a Mustang, to me.

I suspect open wheels are more dangerous, too.

Yes they are.

I suppose they do make it easier to preserve the exterior look of the vehicle without expensive bodywork needed after you hack holes in the car. All the hacking is on mostly unseen areas.