The title of this article led me to believe you had an anal prolapse due to butt dyno miscalibration.

“purishifuto” is a Japanized-English word that translates to “Pre-shift.” Decipher the meaning of that however you’d like.

I fail to see the benefit of this system as far as mpgs go. Sure, you’re giving power back to your electrical system; but to what purpose? I suppose you could argue that the alternator could be downsized, creating less load on the engine. But is that necessarily true? If a car drives on a perfectly flat road, an…

You’re missing the idea here. Maybe his primary point of contention was reliability of these motors; but they are performance-oriented. You can’t compare the longevity of a Toyota truck’s motor to that of a BMW. I’d assume you have the 22RE 4-cylinder or 3.4 V6? Because the 3.0s were absolute garbage. That being said,…

Look at safety regs. There’s no way in hell you’d be able to make a Geo Metro, in today’s automotive landscape, safe enough to certify it across the board.

Currently working on a project of this scale in an undisclosed company working on semi-trucks. Their mirrors are huge, and there’s quite the benefit in eliminating side-view mirrors in favor of rearview cameras. However....there is a lot of legal red tape, often tracing back to the late 60s, that “require flat glass”…

And what stroke of genius have you come up with in your lifetime?

“All the millennials” I swear to god I get a fucking aneurysm anytime I hear that goddamn term

Quit your bullshitting. No study in the world is perfect, there’s always a different angle or lens to look at it from, and I think that % of parts domestically produced is a completely reasonable angle. How do you expect a company like cars.com to figure out “how many blue- and white-collar jobs this vehicle…

You make fair points, but I’ve got a question for you that I’ve pondered myself for awhile: Toyota made the turbo 22RE for just a few years, and then never again. They never made another turbocharged truck. They dropped the god-awful 3.0 in a similar manner. What do they know that we don’t? Perhaps the turbochargers…

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@BmacIL, what are you trying to say?

This car has been on the Klamath Falls craigslist for probably about a year now! My college buddies and I have considered it....it’s such a poor financial decision, just look at it

From an engineering standpoint, less moving (and colliding) parts is a huge factor in longevity. You have a cam pushing a lifter pushing a pushrod pushing a rocker arm pushing a valve. Each component potentially came from a different ingot of metal, which may (or may not) have material impurities, or different…

Add me to that list. My Quattro B5 A4 is sitting at 171k and hasn’t given me any real problems at all. Driven on 8-hour highway drives weekly, and through 1.5 hour-traffic daily.

My dad had his 1992 Toyota Pickup broken into. We’re from Hawaii, so you wouldn’t expect car thieves to get away with much (after all, where the hell do you even GO?). Regardless, my dad is the type of ingenious, wrath-of-god father that had ever been put onto this earth to wreak mayhem — and when they came to break…

I picked up a similar-year A4 for $500 more than this (and $2000 more than KBB; I’m an idiot sometimes). At 202,000 miles, I’d expect that this vehicle has gone through all of its teething issues — the notoriously-bad coilpacks, the wonky dash display, all of it — and I’d happily have picked up this car instead. Damn.

Close, but not quite; a quick Google search says that ~88% of global power usage is nonrenewable (25% natural gas, 28% coal, 35% oil). There isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell that by implementing EVs on a large scale will “clean up” power sources. Nonrenewables are still cheaper and faster to implement on a $/kW…

Between that or the fact that the Charger does a burnout while also doing a wheelie. Sticking or spinning, you can’t have both