I drive a yellow 2008 Fortwo Passion as a company car. I dearly love it, solely for it's absolutely bonkers approach. It's cute, it's fun to look at, it's great fun to play show&tell with and it does it's purpose of tearing through the city and sneaking into places an average car wouldn't fit _perfectly_. A good car,…

Oh yes - this. But be careful on the Sea to Sky, especially police-wise. They like to hide along it, and often use helicopters to speed watch. It's eaaaasy to speed on it...

There are lots of them scattered throughout Vancouver. And so, so many Delicas. You can't drive for an hour without seeing four or five of them.

Beef with central window switches is their proximity to those cupholders. If someone dumps a coffee, it's sure to go straight into the switches - and that's never fun. It's a serious problem in a fleet.

Learned the hard way why they aren't a good deal. Had two SX4s in my fleet at work. No such thing as aftermarket parts for many things for them, and OEM stuff is _crazy_ expensive. Between the rear differential leaking, the power steering rack leaking, the heater cores leaking and the cost of bumper covers / lights /…

I've never understood this — I drive around that corner often. It's not a challenging corner at all. The only difference between it and any other corner is that this one has a long straight stretch before it. I suppose the fact that it's in an area full of affluence could have something to do with it — fast cars and…

Laquer thinner is amazing. Acetone, too. Methyl Ethyl Ketone will remove _anything_ (base coat and clear coat included) from metal.

Watching the video, it's an absolute no-brainer — 2005-2008 Acura RL. Look at the tail-end.

22 of the 24 of the crossings are tunneled underground, two above ground. Fact is, they work. 84,000 crossings by large animals (deer, elk, bears...) as of 2007.

Ooh yes. There was just something incredible about driving up to the top of a hill at night with an HF radio and being able to communicate with somebody half way around the world using radio waves bouncing off of the ionosphere.

The distilled water part - absolutely correct, and I've personally done this many times. An old K800i that was immersed in spilled rum and coke in my sister's purse for hours, an iphone 3g which was in a pool, an ipod mini which was left outside in the rain overnight and even a first generation 5gb ipod which had Coke…

The Fortwo.

Good point. 1090mhz is within UHF, therefore line-of-sight only. Is ADS-B transmitted via HF, or repeated via satellite at all?

What?! We have two Leafs at work. They have both radiators (for the DC-DC converter and inverter) and AC condensors which need cooling. No way around it, really.

It's done via ADS-B. Basically, the plane has a GPS and reports it's location, speed, altitude via its mode-s transponder at 1090mhz. You can recieve ads-b broadcasts on the ground using cheap SDR radios.

I've got a Princess Auto close to my house, and have been to Harbor Freight a few times - and yup! They're damn near identical. HF has cheaper (if you can believe it) prices overall though.

Glad to see it. Lets be really honest and blunt here: nobody ever took their previous generation Pathfinder off-road. Those who would have bought an Xterra instead, those who didn't had to fuel the extra 500lbs of frame and deal with the mediocre ride quality.

Scroll Lock is the key I press (twice) to swap between computers with a KVM, Pause is used to pause any PC during its POST screen if you want to read what is happening during it, SysRq shares a key with Print Screen which is used to grab a screen shot in Windows. Barely useful - and useless to the majority of users…

After driving a 2010 Prius for a few weeks at work, I'd answer this with an absolute definite "yes!". The Prius rocks as a daily stuck-in-traffic driver, and an LF-A to take out for a burn? Sign me up.

A good quality random orbital polisher, polish, some elbow grease and a really solid deep-down cleaning.