Hmm, this seems to be a thing:

Uh, I think you’re looking at the wrong shade of blue there, buddy. Mazda is 2% in that pie chart.

It does look like a ‘show’ car that wouldn’t be used for personal transportation, whatever that means. But this is really a non-issue. Just send a letter back saying, “hey, I actually *do* use this for personal transportation” and the whole thing is resolved. No pitchforks necessary.

The family across the street from me has a kid named Jaxson. Everything about your comment checks out.

The belt-driven starter (which probably does double-duty as the alternator) is an extremely interesting deal that got glossed over. Combine that with supercapacitors (e.g. i-Eloop) or more advanced battery technology, and that’s another big bump in efficiency... not to mention available torque if it packs a pretty…

Let me break this down for you. People who legally conceal carry are law-abiding citizens. If they pull their gun out without justification (like your silly situation), they’re committing a crime. If they shoot someone without justification, they’re committing an even bigger crime. Statistics bare out that conceal…

It’s not a technological limitation, it’s a deliberate limitation due to resistance from pilots who don’t want their random chit chat recorded. The voice recorder is actually only required to record 30 minutes.

If there’s an argument to ban these, it’s on the basis of them being just stupid dangerous. Controlling automatic weapons is already difficult enough without attaching some kind of robot finger-fucking machine to your hand.

Realistically, trans guys would more than likely cost less than your average female in the military since they won’t end up pregnant like, uh, 90% of women in the military. Save on healthcare AND dependent costs!

So instead of spending $18k on a new Fiesta ST, you should spend $16k for one that’s 2-3 years old with 30k miles? Not sure I see your logic, with the incentives that are available right now.

Yeah, right, from the company that can’t be bothered to offer higher power levels in any of their current lineup? Every car I’ve owned up to last year was a Mazda (5, most of them new). But four years now without a Mazdaspeed3 or a more powerful option in the 6? Fuck those guys. My newest car is a Ford. Mazda can put…

I like the part where you said you were going to get to the bottom of this eternal question and then proceeded to get the bottom of jack shit.

Could it increase wear to your engine? Eh, maybe!? Could it decrease mileage? Who knows! Will it decrease performance? Yes, but, no shit.

Most (maybe all) modern cars won’t run the fuel pump if the engine isn’t turning, except for a few seconds initially to build pressure. This is a safety feature to prevent fuel from actively pumping after a wreck. So if you run out of gas, the engine will stop running, and the fuel pump will, too.

Auto-GCAS has been recently rolling out in F-16s and will right a plane if the pilot loses consciousness. Set to roll out in the F-35 around 2024.

Somebody needs to dive through that guy’s window and add some goddamn punctuation. Ah well.

CX-5s were never built with 2.3L motors. They only got 2.0 and 2.5L skyactiv motors, never any MZRs. Though, the MZR was a pretty robust design (being sold by Ford as the Duratec and forming the basis of the ecoboost). You might be mixing up CX-7, which came with the direct-injection turbo 2.3L which won lots of…

Worth noting that Ford made the announcement in JANUARY LAST YEAR that 2016 model year vehicles would get an android auto update in the summer of 2016. Then the fall. Then the end of the year. ANNDDD here it is. Luckily there’s been a hacked-together version available for a few months.

God, you can’t highlight this enough. Large sections of it could be used as set pieces for Walking Dead.

I basically feel the same way and have been very, very bitter about the lack of a Mazdaspeed 3 or higher power options in their lineup, but... those cars were always a very small fraction of the cars they sold.

Did nobody notice that there is also a photo of the front of the car?