Dunno, think that there’s pluses and minuses to either the gauge or the idiot light. The gauge is great for telling you when when your car is warm enough to crank the heat, but I’ll admit that I was wishing that my ‘95 Cherokee had an idiot light when I cooked the engine one evening. That thing ran ridiculously-hot…

In general electric bicycles have limits on their top speed (usually 20, although 28mph ones do exist) and that’s what determines where they’re allowed to be ridden. Technically you can’t ride a bicycle over 20mph on bike paths in my state, but I’d be shocked if an officer knew what the top speed on any given bicycle…

The worst part is that the burning of your roof comes from the hot sauce, not the cheese anyway. The cheese insulates the sauce, meaning it’s still at whatever high temperature you cooked it at even though the cheese has already cooled down. Then you bite in to it, the cheese bursts free, and boom, your mouth is…

God, that’s easily my favorite Top Gear (or Grand Tour) special. I really wish the Grand Tour got back in to stuff like this instead of “hey, let’s throw $500k at a car so we can do stupid stuff with it” that they’re doing now.

Wife has a Sonic hatch and it’s been great for the 5+ years we’ve owned it. With the seats down it’s cavernous in the back, and I’ve fit all sorts of stuff in it (including a road bike) with the front wheel still on. Now, the Sonic is a little bigger than the Spark, but it’s not *that* much bigger.

Well, it depends. Democrats want DC and Puerto Rico statehood. DC residents want statehood. Puerto Ricans probably want statehood (they’ve passed multiple referendums on it in the past couple years). Republicans don’t want DC statehood (too many black people), and only claim to want Puerto Rican statehood. It’s…

Whoa, snorkel *and* hood scoop on that Hijet? I’m guessing the hood scoop isn’t functional in this case?

I’ve always heard that if you have access to city NG, use it for anything and everything you can since it’s more efficient than electric. Right now our electrical service has NG burners, so it literally would be:

This feels like it should have been a contender on Top Gear’s “Cheap Italian Supercars” where they end up with the pretty engine grenaded on the side of the road. Although at least those only cost 10k quid...

YES! I mean, hell, with the first one you had to tinker with the gear selection to actually get the hole-shot.

While I agree that it was a good game, can you *really* say that GT4 was the one that “changed racing games forever” as opposed to the original? You were too young to realize it when it came out, but it was utterly revolutionary at the time. Console racing previously was arcade-style, and PC racing didn’t have…

I’m guessing he accidentally added a zero on the end...

Dunno, the “interwebs” also seem to think that it was heavier? Base (lightest) Cooper was 2535 lbs, and base Coupe was 2557 lbs (~22lbs difference).

Articles like this were the ones that I remembered:  https://www.motoringfile.com/2011/06/06/mini-coupe-heavier-then-hatch-by-45-lbs/

Ugh, this is called the “right hook” bicycle accident, and it is 100% the fault of the motorist who didn’t look to see that there was a cyclist in the bicycle lane next to them before turning.  

Wasn’t it also heavier and slower than the normal MINI? So less room, less useful, and yet bigger, heavier and slower.

Oh for fuck’s sake, another one?  Go away, dipshit.

And even then we only declared war on Germany after Hitler declared war on us. FDR’s great speech to Congress really only was about Japan, and he only asked for a declaration of war against Japan. If Hitler hadn’t been declared war on us, who knows whether we would have ever been fighting in Europe?

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