I just find it ironic when the UAW hall down the street from my house put up huge banners saying “Equal pay for equal work” during an election period when they were one of the pioneers of a tiered pay system.  Unions CAN be a great thing, but the more they try to be political the more they isolate their own workers…

The whole meaning of the phrase “too soon” in this article is meant to be sarcastic.  It’s not “too soon” in the sense of being before it was appropriate to do it.  It was “too soon” in the sense that we were barely scooting on our bellies when we made the goal to run marathons.  It was “too soon” because with any…

In the case of this particular car, which appears to be around $170,000, you are totally correct. However, the cost to benefit ratio becomes much more greatly skewed when you start to look at the cost of a base Prius ($24k)to a base Model 3 ($35k).

2nd Gear. Those European targets are very agressive. 95 g CO2/km is approximately 4.1l/100km or 57 mpg. 57 mpg for a fleet average is extremely high even with the European test being somewhat forgiving. The automakers are stuck between a rock and a hard place when consumer desire does not match the requirements of…

Both have been great cars for their times, and more often then not it has seemed that the Mustang was always the easier car to live with on a daily basis while the Camaro was a bit more of a driver’s car. You can probably guess my vote based on my tiny little profile picture.

Trademarks, on the other hand, can and will be lost if not defended. As soon as someone publicly “gets away” with violating a trademark that can be used a precedence in future cases.

You don’t look at the value of the entire car because you must assume that you will buy a car at some point.  If someone is in the market for a new car they must compare the premium of having an electric and do the cost benefit of that compared to gas and maintenance of the ICE car.

I am not a civil engineer, but I would imagine that the roads in Texas are built to a spec that considers >100°F temperatures whereas the ones in Germany are not.

Ford and Mercades actually offer better seat belts, in the form of inflatable seat belts, on different trim levels of cars.

Haier also owns GE Appliances which has manufacturing in the US.

A rear wheel drive biased, body on frame vehicle is an SUV. This still has a unibody. It’s a crossover.

Dad here. When my oldest son was born I made sure we had this ride to take him home in. That way he can say it was the first car he ever rode in. He will be 4 next month. He now has a younger sister, and I currently have 2 car seats in the back. We don’t drive it every day, but I drive it in good weather and will drop…

In that case, nearly every automaker is using an architecture that can date back decades. Ford had overhead cam V8s and BMW had overhead cam I6 engines in the 60s. 

There are pretty much only 3 things shared between the current LT1 and the original SBC: V8, OHV, and bore spacing.  Everything else has been redesigned several times over.

That isn’t pit wall but is actually a VIP seating area above the pit. The rest of the car is underneath the seats.  See the linked post.

I guess you don’t understand the driving credentials that Mark Reuss holds.

The CTS-V was quite a bit more expensive than and in a completely different class than a Camaro, Mustang, or Challenger. The 2nd gen started in the $70k range while the 3rd gen was over $85k starting price. A ZL1-1LE with the same engine and a more track focused chassis starts right under $70k.

Short of the 1st generation CTS-V, Cadillac has not offered a naturally aspirated V8 in a car. The CTS-V was a supercharged 6.2L starting with the 2nd gen (LSA then LT4), and the ATS-V came out with a turbo 6 instead of the LT1.

Pure water is the better heat transfer fluid.  It has a higher heat capacity (ability to take in heat without raising temperature) and a lower viscosity (helps internal mixing and transfer at walls).  Coolant is used on street cars as a way to avoid freezing and provide some boiling protection.

If it can be loosely interpreted as being within the rules, you do it. If you are allowed to tape over in qualifying and don’t sacrifice an engine, you do it.