Real BS statement. Yes, most prius drivers may not know about the B setting, specially among those who did not read their owner manual. What about the conventional car drivers? How many know what L, L2, or L3 do on their automatic selector? I haven’t met one person who knew what those do, unless it was somebody who…

The current Prius is as-is is already fairly zippy commuter car with good throttle response below 45-50mph, and tighter suspension and steering setup than an average commute CUV. The 1.8L engine doesn’t have a whole lot of power, but the CVT does a good job of changing the gear ratios in order to deliver high revs…

Russian navy seems to be pursuing more of a bottom up hardware update strategy since all newly built ships are smaller corvettes, frigates, diesel subs, etc. There rumor is that larger ships of the soviet era will be gutted and rebuilt with newer internals, while brand new designs are only on the drawing board.

Aircraft carriers are hardly a priority project for the Russian navy.

Some people could lose their job without coffee...

The engine horsepower rating is surprisingly conservative, relative to say the 3.8L in Carrera S with sport kit or the GT3. Did they detune it on purpose for reliability or the balance of performance?

Nothing special in this sound, but at least this video confirms that the car actually exists somewhere with a working engine.

Drove a friend’s 3-cylinder Geo Metro once to a grocery store, and I thought it was a zippy car for the city. Granted, this was driving in Berkeley, Ca, where a typical street has 25mph speed limit and stop signs even 200 meters, and a couple of “fast” streets with 40mph speed limit.

There are 2-3 races each season that are won by outsider teams. The rest is true. IndyCar needs more road races, instead of street races or ovals. It also needs more talent. Unfortunately, I think the void has already been filled by the Formula E championship which picked up all the F1 and G2 drivers who couldn’t get…

One very cheap solution is to keep your music collection on a USB flash drive. Most car stereos work fine with those. Or perhaps next time around get a phone with some kind of sd card.

To be honest, I don’t see the point of converting an old iPhone 4 into a dedicated car GPS or music player. What’s the point? Doesn’t your current smartphone already connect to your car’s stereo via bluetooth or USB? Doesn’t the current phone also have GPS apps, that also work a lot faster than those on iPhone 4?…

Don’t forget that this race track also hosts the WEC and MotoGP races. I think $25M a year to put Texas on the map of the international motorsports is not too bad of a deal. Texas needs to advertise itself to people and businesses from other states. It has been a magnet recently for people and businesses moving from…

Nobody cares about that aspect really.

NASCAR has never been an all-American sport IMO. People mostly watch it in the South and IndyCar has done its best in the past to make sure nobody watches it..

Hosting F1 has become something akin of hosting Olympic games. Nobody makes money off the Olympics either. What’s surprising me is Bernie’s short-sightedness when it comes to recognizing the importance of the historic F1 race tracks. If F1 continues abandoning its historic race tracks in favor of Mickey Mouse tracks…

Nothing? Please. Can you deny the war American or British war crimes I have mentioned, or the fact that Nazis slaughtered millions of Slavs, including defenseless POWs in the concentration camps (in addition to millions of Jews)? Can you deny that American nukes and strategic bombing campaigns for the most part killed…

1. Aleppo - like I said there is no pretty away to urban warfare. The reason Americans entered Baghdad without much resistance because the remainder of Saddam’s army run away and disappeared, mixed with the civilian population. You can’t compare Saddams minions, who were trained for much of their lives to suppress…

It’s not clear from the article, which part of it exactly shows that Puttin is getting his ass kicked. Daghestan is a tiny republic the size of Maryland with a three million population of mostly muslims, on the border of Russia. No wonder there may exist some crazy confused citizens there who join ISIS, Al Queda, etc.…

1. Aleppo was destroyed not by the Russians, but by the Syrian army fighting rebels and bandits long before Russian air force got involved. There is no “nice” way to win in an urban warfare.

I think the reason for the prices going up is not because of how well those manual transmissions shift, but because those were some of the last of their kind. Fast forward 10 years, and there won’t be any sports cars with a manual transmission or a naturally aspirated non-hybrid engine.