My 1978 Lincoln Mark V came from the factory with a 7.5 liter engine that had 202 HP........202!!!! It failed to even reach the 0.5 HP/CI threshold. I would have killed to have 430, or even 340 HP. Gone are the dark days of malaise.

Sounds like some kinda high-falutin’ skybox or sumthin’. 

These are people who live by the credo: “If you’re not first, you’re last”. 

The human body cannot subsist solely on hot dogs and potato chips.

Let’s be honest: Those people don’t have friends. Unless “friend” is defined as “Someone you happen to be familiar with who will listen to you talk about yourself endlessly”. 

I will not drink beer delivered in that rolling tetanus lab.

Expert 3: Subaru Beer BRAT. Almost too good to pass up.

He will never get a visa for China. They demand that you are able to support yourself. 

Reading this and having “Jyna” stuck in my head every time I read “China” is wearing me out. 

“Communism = Rules” therefore “Democracy = Anarchy”?

Yes, but because there is a leak and that leak will cost $12,000 to fix.

We don’t want useful tests; we want to be able to tell people that we can town 1 MILLION POUNDS!!! when we are on barstools discussing which truck is superior while swilling the beer that we think is superior while checking stats on the brand of phone we find superior because: Brand Loyalty is smart.

That’s the smart talking.

My last job was calibrating process equipment for a large pharma company. I used to calibrate large floor scales while gowned up head-to-toe in Tyvek. Some days the booties would be squishing with my sweat-water.

Own one: Can confirm. Boost is fun. Mileage be damned. 

Guilty

First Gear: As an owner of a 2015 Expedition with a 3.5 ‘boost; Can concur. Of course, I knew this going in. My rabid consumption of material from esteemed automotive publications such as this informed me of Ford’s “optimistic” fuel economy numbers.

Star for introducing me to the word “gunge”. 

Oh, and they do sell tyvek body suits for cleanrooms and whatnot. Have you priced them? Could be an option.

After my days delivering auto parts, I was a mechanic for a decade. The things I experienced while spending several hours changing a heater core were the stuff of nightmares. One example: