You are awesome! This looked familiar, but I couldn’t figure it out and it was going to drive me insane(er).

When something makes noise or otherwise shows that’s it’s wearing out or if it breaks, I check it out and fix/replace as necessary. And I change the oil every 10k(ish) miles. When I had a timing belt engine, that was the only scheduled maintenance I ever followed (plus water pump and tensioner every other 60k belt…

D’oh! Thanks, I have to stop scanning stuff and actually read it.

This is suspicious. They don’t state voltage, though, so if it’s low voltage, that’s less series cells required, so less space. I also would think they’d use pouch batteries instead of cylinder cells, though cooling becomes even more of an issue and where’s the evidence of a cooling system? Either way, yeah, I still…

Safety, but also aero and chassis/suspension engineering. An extra set of outrigged wheels would be a lot more drag (assuming maintaining the outrigged wheels to reduce frontal area and optimize the tapered back form). The three wheels halves the number of interactions between wheels versus four and there’s a lot less…

My early ‘80s Subarus were around that weight. Seats were too thin for comfort for 900 mile drives, but doable. My Legacy was so loud on the Southwest concrete highways that I had to wear earplugs, so I wore ear plugs. Were they more efficient and built more to today’s standards, I’d gladly have any of those cars as…

I hope it’s for real this time. If I can figure out a way to bike rack it, I think I could make one work for me with the 40 kWh pack. Nice to see it in some other color than sperm cell white, too. You want weird cross-shopping? If this turns out to be for real, for my next vehicle, I’ll be considering this or a Bronco,…

Anyone unaware if the other lane is clear at any given time is negligent. Sure, that’s probably most people, but what qualifies as a capable driver isn’t relative to the majority. As for hitting a moose, anyone telling someone that’s the better option is an idiot. Deer and anything smaller, sure, probably a bear, but…

Me, too, while we still can.

Or it’s just that the wall paper people (most of them) gravitate towards cars that cater to their lack of skill and interest in driving, so they don’t drive fast enough and maybe not often enough to be involved in as many fatal crashes.

This. Mileage aside, I’d rather drive a land yacht because at least the terrible handling doesn’t also come at the expense of the ride.

From my (thankfully) limited experience with eco-tires that led me to conclude that they should be outlawed, I’d be surprised it turned in to begin with.

You sound unfamiliar with moose. If you hit a full grown moose, you take the legs out and its massive body crashes through right about where the windshield is. Even truckers don’t want to hit the things—the driver might be unlikely to be injured, but they can fuck up a semi tractor pretty well.

Neutral: Since manual transmissions are getting so difficult to find and that’s the only old tech in a modern vehicle that I enjoy, I’d gladly go to electric, but as this is the first year in a long time that I’ve driven under 40k miles (thanks to the pandemic), I think the Tesla Model 3 is the only thing that would…

I don’t think it would have been built if proposed with the V8. The winning internal business argument probably involved using it to juice up the EcoBoost brand. It certainly wasn’t expected to be a major contributor to the bottom line on its own and I’d argue its market appreciation shows a lack of V8 didn’t really…

Yeah, the Elise and Evora and a good chunk of the appeal of old cars like Iso, Facel Vega, DeTomaso, Monteverdi, etc. for me is the mass produced engine with plenty of power and greater reliability than some limited production, never-quite-fully-developed, weirdo that needs constant fettling and has parts that require…

When Enzo Ferrari was asked which of his cars was his favorite, he replied: The next one. I didn’t understand it as a kid, looking upon such an incredible historic catalog of cars bearing his name, but after having imagined and built some things as an adult, I get it completely. If one isn’t a sentimental type that…

It would be no loss if none of these survived for future generations. It might even be better to let people possibly wonder at what they were like as their imaginations would surely be more interesting than the reality. These were the cars that only the most desperate kid would pick up when they got their license and…

If you get an EJ22 turbo to 240 hp, you’re almost assuredly making a lot more torque than the EG33 and it will cost you money to get there (stock: ~160hp/180 lbs./ft.) vs. stock EG33 (which, yes, is pretty much a standard EJ22 with an extra pair of cylinders), which would be even worse for the transmission, plus it’s…

People complained that the halos are ugly, but someone dying in a crash is a hell of a lot uglier and it very likely saved him here.