Have you ever ridden a share bike? They’re objectively shitty. They’re heavy, usually one speed, rattlely as hell, and just bad. So if I’m coming off public transit and given the choice between one of those, I’m gonna pick the scooter every time because, at the least, I’m not fighting against physics. 

I want to know why the 4.4l Ford sourced diesel V8 isn’t being offered in the US.

Isn’t the whole point of NASCAR outrunning the popo and revenuers?

I will say this having owned THREE full size Jeeps: they’re the worst cars I’ve ever owned intentionally.

It’s the difference between the 100 years old Japanese lady and the 100 year old German lady. The former slowly makes her way from her room in the assisted living center to the common room for bridge, during which she’ll quietly soil her depends. The German lady needs to be pushed in her wheelchair to the common room,…

I spent a summer in Italy with a girl from Mexico City. I let her do all the talking.

There’s no reason that a semi designed from the wheels up to be fuel cell powered should be limited to 300 miles. The fuel cell drive hardware (fuel cell, electric motors, etc) do not, as I recall, take up anywhere near the space of the diesel components, nor do they require the same shape. The real challenge is in…

I too thought Babar was only in French, mostly because the first time I found a Babar book, when I was 6, it was in French (naturally, as I was in Brussels). Didn’t slow me down much and eventually I discovered Tintin and Astrix, also in French. I did what any practical and enterprising child would. I taught myself Fre…

Time is the ultimate resource. Alternatives or “more” are available for everything else, but time is truly finite. Why obligate people to waste it?

A car that’s bricked by the manufacturer if a rebuilder doesn’t pay them is gonna eventually be th thing that’ll kill a noob manufacturer like Tesla.

I hear ya. Back in 2008, I did a course, got my endorsement, got an old Kawasaki, rode it for a few months, put it down when a minivan cut me off, got an insurance check, and haven’t been on a bike since.

I had not seen the update when I replied.* Honestly, “We don’t have time.” is a totally valid reason not to talk to a reporter when the question at hand isn’t time sensitive.

Needing to fly somewhere and engaging in a bit of kabuki for a journalist aren’t the same thing. 

Neither of us know what conversation went on between UA and the WSJ. It may well have been discussed and simply not reported. 

Given Muñoz’s heart transplant, there might be a medical reason he demurred. Might.

The real reason to get an FSJ with the 258 is that the head and EFI off a HO 4.0l will swap right on and give you a hell of an engine for precious little effort* and even less money**.

I’ve driven most of these roads over the years thanks to a passionate desire to be a mountain person, but a career path that prevented that for many years (I live in Colorado now).

In Putin’s Russia, there is no legal size. 

The one issue they had back when new was that AMCs relied heavily on parts from other manufacturers (Mopar transmissions, GM steering, etc) and because of this sometimes had weird mid-year model variations that resulted in either assembly errors or maintenance confusion.

The Buick concept cars of the 50s must be in your list then.