I know there is a lot of love for winter tires on Jalopnik, and in the correct climate they do work much better than All Seasons. However, winter tires are not practical in all scenarios. Where I live its not uncommon to have snow and 60-70°F weather within the same week. And the average winter temperature is usually…

6.5 inches in length and 5 inches in height is as much and sometimes more difference than class size differences. The Impala is 7.5" longer, only 1.2" taller, and the same width as a Malibu. Park those cars side by side and the difference in size is huge.

It’s “luxurious” because its expensive. Never mind that it has the exact same feel as the plastic in a 1999 Cavalier.

I would say that you still have some reduced performance in your cooling system.

Unfortunately she probably doesn’t own the car yet because you don’t sign the final paperwork and do the title transfer until you take delivery. What she currently has is a paper trail saying that the dealership agrees to sell her the car in question at a specified price. The dealership might be “technically” within…

Southeast Indian get rural very quickly, but I wouldn’t call Louisville rural...

We had my car done for my groom’s cake.

While the GM V6 used in the Camaros (and most any other GM car with a V6) says 87 many people in the community have dyno results that show an increase in power when going to 93. I once had a rental Camaro that rolled off the truck earlier that day and had less than 10 miles on it when I drove it off the rental lot.…

Many manufacturers will recommend 87 for their non hi performance engines because they don’t want to scare off potential customers. Someone buying a V8 Mustang, Camaro, Corvette, etc. is likely more understanding for the need of 91 or 93 octane, but someone buying a commuter car is more likely to be turned away from…

It is, but most people’s experience, at least from comments here, with lane splitting involves speeding between the lanes which gives the entire concept a bad image even if it is helpful overall.

Because people want their car TODAY! They want to drive off the lot after signing the papers for that $40k car. They don’t want to have time to change their mind before that car comes in.

The key phrase in that whole statement is “if the motorcyclists do no exceed the speed of other vehicles by more than 15 mph.” I live in a lane splitting is illegal state, and every time I have experienced lane splitters they are doing far more than 15 mpg greater than the speed of traffic. And in almost every…

I think there are companies doing that.

From my understanding the biggest, but not necessarily the only, issue with that particular car is that it wasn’t declared on the paperwork. You have to pay taxes on imported goods above a certain value, and since this wasn’t declared the importer had no intentions of paying those taxes.

It must be all the BMW drivers complaining about their car giving them alarms every time they change lanes.

You are correct that the turbo uses the exhaust flow to spin the turbine and that cooler air is more dense. However, you can treat the exhaust flow as somewhat of a fixed mass flow. Given two gas streams of the same mass flow rate the higher temperature stream will be flowing at a higher velocity and carry the greater…

For a given mass flow rate of air raising the temperature does decrease the density which means that velocity has to rise to compensate. Having the same mass of gas hit the turbo at a higher velocity can spin it up faster.

It still looks like it’s from 2004.

The V6 car starts at $35,285 which is greater than $33,560.

Perhaps he should switch his allegiance to Ford and try to get a GT. It would be yet another win over Ferrari.