Relaxing NOx in the enlarging shadow of electric vehicles might make a lot of sense in that it effectively limits how lean an engine can run, so relaxing that would allow remaining gasoline vehicles to use less fuel.

I’m not a people person, but even I know you don’t launch right into an attack if you want something from someone as they’re liable to respond in kind out of spite (justified or not). Doing this to a cop with their notoriously often weak character and ability to arrest—or worse—over whatever bullshit they feel like is…

I don’t think those seats will take it. They look pretty dried out, so even a blanket over them will likely tear them apart. That’s what storage and replicas are for.

Get replica seats made for driving and store the originals.

When they weren’t easy to remove, I used to “fix” the heat shields on the old Subarus with stainless hose clamps. Get the real long ones or put several together and crank them around the offender. I even held a 270k mile muffler together for probably the last 50k that way.

Yeah, what’s that about going to war with the army you have, not the army you want? Same with selling this shit to the public. I honestly can’t figure out how some people manage to feed themselves and we expect them to understand the various degrees of self driving? Not only that, but the requirement of constant vigila…

I read this as they didn’t make a good car for the money.

My sister has an Ascent and I don’t find the CVT any worse to drive than a regular auto—maybe even better since it’s not always hunting for gears—but for me, I hate CVTs because a lot of them struggle to make it 100k, never mind the 200k or so a clutch alone in a manual would get me.

I just watched a video where a lightly modded 2018 STI could barely stay ahead of a new BRZ in a drag race, never mind the WRX. I don’t know where you are, but WRX insurance is very high in MA, then there’s the aesthetics and being a magnet for scumbags.

2006 Mazda3. Rusted worse than an ‘80’s Subaru and felt more fragile over bumps as if the front subframe was mounted using old condoms as bushings. I guess it was a little better to drive than a Corolla, though worse than that’80’s Subaru, so I’d say it wasn’t quite the driver’s car the press made it out to be.

So fucking stupid. Tailgating is not only unsafe and blah, blah, blah, but it’s very likely to just piss off the person in front so they block the tailgater and maybe it escalates as it did here. Keep a respectable distance and either wait for a reasonable opening or—surprisingly!—they might notice and move into the…

I can’t recall ever seeing a good one, but there probably was at some point. It likely wouldn’t have lasted since it wouldn’t have had the Real Housewives drama, stale humor, and concocted fake nonsense with a ridiculous deadline any child who built a large Lego set wouldn’t believe that seems to be the necessary…

Damn, that would be some impressive work if it was done by a high school student illustrating a clever middle schooler’s idea.

When an FBI agent and BPD officer confronted and shot a terrorist* in the parking lot outside one of my work sites a few years back, the Feds showed up with a pretty ordinary looking RV, just with one of those retractable antennas like mobile news vans use. I joked that it needed were the retractable blast shields…

Was going to say something similar. As disgusting as I think megayachts are, this is actually kind of cool and reusing a commercial vessel. With the upkeep costs of this thing and infrequency so many of these pleasure vessels get used that means a lot of them are rented out part time, I wouldn’t be surprised if this…

I can’t remember where I found out about them. I want to say they were factory built for the rally team, but they may have been farmed out or a custom job in limited production. Last time I saw them mentioned was probably something like 25 years ago and my memory isn’t amazing to begin with, but from what I remember,…

A shadow vessel can be essentially just a fancy water taxi. When you’re talking a megayacht of even a fraction of this size, there aren’t too many places to dock it, so they’re anchored offshore and the shadow vessel is used to get around locally and to shore. As someone who likes boats, I find the whole idea of…

I grew up with sociopaths in my family. TheWalrus had nothing in his comment reflecting that. If you’re anywhere near MA, I’m sure the surviving sociopath in my family would be willing to spend some quality time with you if you’d like a live lesson in the behavior of a sociopath. Throwing around terms like “sociopath”…

I loved those little engines! Gear-driven cam. I remember seeing dual port heads someone made for the EA81s way back when I had one, but they were extremely expensive back then. Are they fairly attainable now?

Regular Ej22 was open deck, but the turbo version was fully closed. The latter was expensive to build being sand and die cast, so Subaru went cheap and just bumped up displacement too high to come up with the POS 2.5 when the overpriced STI came to the US instead of bringing the closed deck 2.2 back where they could…