The Prius C makes the regular Prius feel like a luxury sport-sedan. The C is noisier, and slower. Although it's smaller and lighter, it feels more like stale bread to drive. It has no handling characteristics whatsoever, no great ride quality, no nice toys like the regular Prius has. I drive them both very often - we…

Vancouver's Skytrain. World's largest fully automated train line.

1984-1985 Chev S10 could be had with a N/A 2.2L diesel, putting out 62hp and 96lb-ft of torque. While carrying any load at all, it was unbelievable just how little power those things had.

It's a great car, overall. It's an awesome commuter. It's grunty off the line, comfortable, very practical, burns half the fuel of anything comparable in the city, and just makes a damn good daily driver. Pair one up with a weekend toy, and you've got a _great_ fleet.

You see them once in a while in Vancouver BC. They're surprisingly ugly in real life. Delicas are everywhere around here...

To be fair, a lot of what they build is quite expensive, but I suppose if you want a brand new "old" sports car, ~~$50k is a reasonable figure for it. It's cool seeing some of the unique stuff that comes out of there. A woman ordered a Roadster with the 911 engine, and wanted it painted a pearlescent pink, with a…

Looks like my desk, after stumbling across a big box full of key fobs for cars that were sold years ago, at work, and being told "just make those disappear, we don't care how". eBay, here I come!

we used to have seven Mini Coopers at work. Five of them needed replacement keys, and all seven were outlived by the original CR2032 batteries in other conventional remotes. Those BMW keys sucked.

Oh wow, that's ridiculously low. $1.41/L in Vancouver right now (and that's kinda cheap here). That's $5.32 CAD / gallon, or $5.17 US. It's no wonder that full size trucks aren't common around here at all, compared to the US.

yet another american super-beast that will virtually never be seen on Canadian roads (Vancouver, at least).

Depends on if they're "new rich" or "been rich for decades". "New rich" tend to be a bunch of douche nozzles, being as showy and flamboyant as possible. The "old rich" that I know tend to be really down to earth. I was welcomed into the founder of Fitness World's summer cabin for a weekend with friends, years ago. Had…

My thoughts: the Corolla is an old, dead car, in principal alone. If you are in its market segment at all, you should be buying the Prius. It's a much nicer car in every possible respect, and it gets such better realistic fuel economy (when driven on actual roads, not looking at BS EPA numbers) that it will pay itself…

There's a shop right next door to where I work called Intermeccanica. They make brand new Things from scratch, with original old-stock VW engines and everything. They make all kinds of neat Porsche replicas, too. They seem to have a brand new Speedster built every two weeks or so. Cool cars.

A friend of Mine's Beetle TDI typically runs on Jet A / Jet A1, too (plus some additive to get the lubricity up). He's an AME-S guy. When you pump the tanks empty on a helicopter, you aren't allowed to pump it back in afterwards =)

yeah, not a fan of the Camaro (any generation past 1st gen) at all, either. They were awful to drive, the epitome of everything wrong with an American car, and they certainly haven't gotten better with age.

No, there are at least a few of us...

Yellow with silver cell '08 Fortwo Passion in my driveway here. It's not mine, but it's my company car. I love it! Cute to look at, a lot of fun to drive (u-turns anywhere!), it's an absolute riot in the city. ~6.2L/100km average in all city traffic, and you can get one used now for under 5 grand. What's not to like,…

Makes a lot of sense. MD was (still is) Japan's CD. It's far superior than CD. It doesn't skip, it has been recordable for twenty years, and it doesn't record/playback sequentially. You can delete a song half-way through the MD which took up seven minutes of space, and record seven minutes worth of music onto it, with…

Hard to beat a small, simple Toyota for overall long-term longevity. Not much breaks, everything that does break is simple and inexpensive to fix. A base model Yaris with a manual transmission, properly maintained will last a long time.

Oh that's nothing. Anybody who is surprised by this has never worked in logistics before.