That’s what I was thinking. If I was VW, I’d sell it, too. Now’s the time to get out while it’s got value and riding the luxo SUV craze. What’s Lamborghini going to be without the great-sounding multi-cylinder engines in the increasingly regulated and electric near future? A badge-engineered SUV and a couple of wedge…

A lot of those failed cars probably have low intakes. I went through a flooded area up to the headlights in my Mk1 Legacy and it wasn’t out of a sense of control, so much as a “fuck it” gamble. I knew my intake was high behind the fender, bending down into a U inside a resonator box and if it wasn’t quite high enough…

Yeah, this is a HUMAN problem. Some people like to have it both ways: gender is a cultural construct! But this is a male problem! No, the appeal of power, size, and speed trigger reward hormones in most humans regardless of gender—it’s innate, it’s evolved from a time when those things conferred advantages for…

Yeah, the only other likely option was steam, which still burns shit for power, and has much of the same negatives of IC with a few additional ones that saw its demise in competition with IC. She seemed to be taking a rather narrow point and expanded it much too far. PEOPLE have always sought out speed and power be…

This is all I want as far as driving experience, as well. I don’t care about fast, I care about feeling a connection to a machine and what it is doing. But the lack of that can be applied to most modern cars—even the performance ones—just the same as electrics. To a point, I feel even the massive performance potential…

I don’t do drugs, smoke, or drink, either. You can hang out with me at the party. I’ll be next to the family cat/dog/tortoise that wishes I would just go away already.

I think it’s a valid question about what his expectations are for Le Mans if the car won’t have much of a chance to be run much before the race, but much of the tone of this reminds me of the personalities on the painful reality TV shows my late mother watched that I feigned interest in because she was dying.

I’m not a…

I think I’ve been to 28 or so states and I’ll vote for MI. I haven’t been back to Detroit in about 20 years, but the potholes they decided to fill would be overfilled to become sharp speed bumps, sometimes alternating between the two even on highway on-ramps like a car OEM destruction test track. I’ve seen a lot of…

From a former Subaru guy (2 1984s and a 1990), yes. Mine all had better than expected throttle response. That and the low end torque made even the ‘84s decent city warriors in spite of the lack of power.

I don’t know if it translates exactly, but I believe it’s white trash for: if you’re* upset (presumably by some other sticker or accessory they have on their vehicle or person as it’s unnamed) it’s because you’re weak and unmanly and you should’ve stayed home in your safe space. The implication also being that they…

Yup, so many of these morons bringing guns everywhere for fear of crime are the ones supplying the criminals with them by making them so easy to find to steal.

We moved away around that time . . . shit, it was actually even longer than 30 years. That city still kind of feels like home, though. 

The worst thing about bumper stickers is that you can’t tell when seeing someone trying to pull out from a side street or driveway until you’ve let them in front of you that you’ve made a big mistake in doing so.

Worst are any trump/gun/sovereign citizen cult affiliated stickers (although, at least with these, the…

Is it serious or a mocking joke, though? In the days before the garbage that F&F popularized, the latter would have been apparent, but now the problem becomes that we can no longer tell when someone is a seriously stupid or joking. Doesn’t just apply to cars, of course.

I grew up on Roslyn St.

Would probably make a killing in Salem, MA during the ever-lengthening Halloween season. Not sure what one would do with it the rest of the year, though.

But it’s less pressure per cylinder as the 2.7 is a V6 and it should be less stressed under more ordinary driving conditions as the larger displacement should be able to perform ordinary tasks under less boost. Though I’m sure they follow the tiny turbo for low end formula of the other Ecoboosts. I don’t know how they…

You need a large condenser and even the most efficient steam car ever made (Doble) couldn’t convert all the steam back to water (reportedly 60 mpg of water with no mention I could find of conditions that was measured under). You also still need some kind of hydrocarbon/hydrocarbon derivative to generate enough heat to…

The first criticism was definitely stupid and at odds to what anyone who is familiar with Toyota would say. First, Toyota has a ton of money. Worst case, they buy a successful EV maker down the road. Second, they thrive on using older tech than rivals*, waiting until the kinks get worked out and suppliers have it down.…

Most likely. Assuming it’s a Ford way, my Focus ST does that. It says it’s fine on 87, but I tried it in the winter where I was just doing easy highway mileage eating a tank a day and I got something like 3 mpg less, it idled rough, and accelerated like I had three big dudes in the car.