mitchkelleher
Mitch Kelleher
mitchkelleher

There’s a drag race video on youtube with a new Si against BRZ/GR86 where the Si is repeatedly beaten. I have a GR86 and had a Focus ST. Below 80 mph, the ST was a lot faster than the GR (which still has a torque dip no matter what the reviewers say, it’s just not nearly as bad). As has been the case since they gave

This will definitely keep me from questioning my GR86 purchase when the Z finally gets to market—about 700 pounds more for the lightest version! Might as well have a Mustang as at least it’s a 2+2.

Looks like very little traction in the rear as he cuts across the camera car as you can see the left with almost no weight on it. Heading for barrier, driver steers right. Front has traction and pendulum begins.

Apparently not as they’re the sole company that insists on continually bringing this crap tech to market to have it fail again and again for the same issues. 

Maybe they can work on a radial-engined generator model, too, while they’re bringing archaic crap tech to market (although I actually like radial engines, unlike rotary nutters, I understand that their day is long gone, and at least they actually had a day.)

Uh oh, weirdo rotary cult apologists are about to descend on you with the myriad excuses they have always cued up to excuse that hopeless POS design. Oh, but it’s smooth! WGAF. How rough are modern piston engines, anyway?

Oh, wait, I see they’ve already arrived.

They should be locked into the passenger compartment when it’s crushed.

Funny how the most generically “alpha” peacockers are the biggest whining crybabies.

Someone with a more progressive agenda (anything left of slightly right of center) to stage being a right wing whackjob and stir up these assmonkeys for the sake of something functional. They can just make up whatever bullshit they want as the actual content of a bill has no meaning, they just have to wind them up

Jeep Cherokee is derided, but German shitbox has the same thing years later and it’s great. I will never get the blind love or excuses for the overrated junk that comes from that country, be it design or engineering. No, this is pig-fuck ugly up and down in every direction. Russia would be hard pressed to design

From watching stuff on the ancient norse language, there is a lot of influence in English by Northmen, I imagine much of the reason it differs so much from continental Latin-derived languages in terms of grammar and vocabulary.

From a former driver of two 73 hp cars that were quite fun and utterly worry free, I’m in complete agreement.

Emissions, safety (and part-related size bloat), customer expectations for NVH, power, and gadgets. Of those things, though, it’s emissions that are probably the biggest problem as they have a greater effect at all speeds and uses, particularly NOx, which has gotten much more strict since the ‘80s. High NOx comes from

I always wondered if greater comfort in grueling long distance races could make up for a loss of efficiency in allowing the rider to run harder for longer. I have a 1912 racing bike with wood wheels and the frame geometry is as laid back as a cruiser bike with the head tube angle being something I can’t find a modern

This isn’t 1980. Failure at 140k—especially on a low performance engine—shouldn’t be unacceptable. This is clearly a major OEM problem (Hyundai still doesn’t know how to make engines. I guess it’s a good thing they’re turning toward electric, not that I’d trust them.).

Ah, the old manual steering tire pressure monitoring system! My Subaru GLs had that, too. Simple and foolproof.

At only 140k and after a lifetime of eating oil at a rate my ‘84 Subaru GL with a leaking rear main seal would smugly laugh at?! What POS cars are you used to and why do you feel the need to defend them? Not only that, this is an extensive and well-known problem and they previously agreed to cover it.

Damn, those filters are expensive to use like that and the lack of visibility is likely more dangerous than the potential for infection (assuming they don’t have an immunodeficiency).

Kevin Costner is getting too old for this shit.

The only way I’d notice they stopped delivering mail here is by the lack of trash private companies pay them to put in my mailbox.

Comparing this to a then brand new operation with barely enough money from about 75 years ago . . . yeah, that’s valid. How low a bar do we need to set for this 50 year old tween?