A worst case outlier scenario has little to no bearing on the overall situation. But hey, anecdotal gibberish tugs at the heartstrings of fools, so keep on fuckin that chicken.
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One of my favorite times of year in Minnesota is late winter/early spring, as all the ice fisherman compete to see who can be the last one to take their house off the lake before the ice gets too thin to throw it back on the trailer and drive off. There are a lot of ice houses and trucks at the bottom of lakes.
Perfect regular cars were nice and all, but man, the perfect “holy shit, never thought I would see one of those here” cars are even better. Highlights of my time at a Ford dealer 7-8 years ago were a 1979 Lincoln Continental Collectors Edition in perfect shape with 10k miles, a 1991 Lotus Esprit SE Turbo with 6k…
Im not even that bothered by the lack of stick shift because first gen TTs werent exactly all that lithe anyway. It was a Boxster competitor with more style than grace. While Boxsters remain excellent pure driving machines and fantastic bargain toy racers, the TT is a timeless beauty. This one looks well cared for,…
CP. Played the Bimmer game, and getting 250k+ out of these with reasonable maintenance isnt that daunting. They dont have the godawful reliability and cost of the turbo cars. 10k isnt bad for a car this good with that kind of life left in it. But still, this one being all rusted out with a bumper respray, Id much…
Hes going about this all wrong. You dont want spacious in college. Youre young, flexible, and own minimal stuff to be dragging around. You want compact. If youre driving on campus, you want the smallest fuckin thing in the world so you have a shot at finding a parking space rather than being stuck driving around for…
This is the internet. It is a series of tubes. Apostrophes are just wasted bits that can clog the tubes.
I was a designated “technical expert” at a Ford dealer. Theyd have me train the sales staff on the vehicles, and help out with any customers who had questions beyond what the average sales idiot could answer. Sales people suck at product knowledge because they have no time to learn it. Any time spent trying to know…
As a Minnesotan, forget AWD. If youre commuting, its just costing you gas money and potentially maintenance money. It doesnt save you from needing winter tires. Lots of people think that just because AWD can get them moving in snow without winter tires, they dont need them. Then they slide into a ditch or into the…
Eh, that’s a bit overblown. Don’t buy the first model year of an entirely new platform or entirely new drivetrain. And don’t buy the first year of a new Sync system. Neither of these have a new drivetrain. Bronco is modified Ranger platform, not sure what the baby Bronco is built off of. There’s not going to be any…
They were a product of their time, and judged with that lens had redeeming qualities. But the generation that replaced it had bettered it in every way other than reducing one's willingness to fill it with manure. Safer, more efficient, more powerful, more space, more reliable, more comfortable, more capable, it just…
Did you also go see Twilight in the theater just so you could stand up in the middle of it and announce your disapproval? “This is not for me, therefore it is bad and should not exist” is an attitude one should try to outgrow. It’s an easy trap to fall into because with things like Twilight it is true, leading one to…
People have been clamoring for a “rugged” small SUV from Ford since they turned the Escape into the Kuga. It blew my mind when I was selling Fords back then that people were coming in demanding the old one. Id talk them out of it by having the old Escape and the new one parked next to each other and telling them to…
8 years army intelligence analyst, Sep 10th 2001-2009
For it to work perfectly there cant be any exceptions. For some progress, anything will help.
The military is full of racist trash, and the VA largely hires veterans. Only way that cesspool is getting cleaned out is John Kerrys derided plan to reinstate the draft.
They wouldnt stop much faster. They would stop a little bit faster and accelerate a little bit faster from the reduced mass. Carbon ceramic brakes just have much higher thermal capacity and durability. They use massive 25 lb rotors on fast oval tracks to have the thermal capacity and stopping power they need. On road…
Carbon ceramic brake rotors dont inherently massively increase stopping power, they increase the thermal capacity of the rotor so you dont cook your brakes. They also last a lot longer. The performance increase they do provide comes from reducing unsprung rotating mass, which isnt exactly negligible but is far from…
Carbon ceramic brake rotors dont inherently massively increase stopping power, they increase the thermal capacity of the rotor so you dont cook your brakes. They also last a lot longer. The performance increase they do provide comes from reducing unsprung rotating mass, which isnt exactly negligible but is far from…