This is similar to the story that I heard. Prior to recognized industry standards for mixing paint that we take for granted today, it was nearly impossible to assure an exact color match from one batch of paint to another except for black, so if Ford ran out of a batch of red in the middle of a car, they’d have to…

With depreciation, that’s how they end up by the time they’re 20 years old.

No, the 2.0 Ecoboost doesn’t blow head gaskets, it gets cracked heads and the Ford TSB 19-2346 states the remedy is engine replacement. While my Focus SE did over 200k without issue, it also had a small mystery coolant usage throughout its life as reported on the Ecoboosts, so while it might not list the N/A engines…

I’m pretty sure there’s a class in US business school that teaches this tactic until one is large enough to just buy senators.

Which one?

Yes, and before airbags, but they can be restarted, no? I would think if they can’t that it would be a safety issue, such as in cases like this. I’ve never had the airbags go off in a crash, but my 2012 Focus got rear ended on the highway hard enough that the car behind was stopped by the rear suspension crossmember…

RS. The Ecoboost 2.0 has a different coolant burning issue unrelated to the head gasket, the exact nature of which I haven’t been able to find, but the TSB recommends entire engine replacement when the chronic mystery of the missing coolant eventually manifests in a rolling smoke screen.

While I find the profligate waste disgusting, that’s actually pretty damn good compared to the underpowered 4 that doesn’t do much better, if not necessarily surprising considering the 4 will be under a higher load any time it wasn’t idling and would require a shorter ratio gearbox for those squirrel legs to have any…

I think it was Ryan Air that tried to get standing room approved a little while ago, but it got shot down.

Disegno di Spirograph.

I’m even thinking of getting a trailer for my kayaks since the GR won’t handle a roof rack (or at least I’m not willing to try). I expect to hear a lot of dumb comments from dull people about how I should have a truck. Funny thing with that, though, is that I was considering a Maverick when the ST blew up, but then…

I just finished fitting a 2" Gen 1 stealth hitch (completely hidden when desired) on my Gen 2 (took some modification as they’re not quite the same, but the bumper beam is the same part number between gens, so I thought it would be simple) and the Kuat hitch rack is more solid than when it was on my ST, so this is the…

That’s less than 1% of the weight of a typical EV. I’m sure there are smarter, more sustainable ways to save weight.

This is fiberglass, which is infrequently recycled and it is a messy process. As a small component on a vehicle made up of a myriad of materials that need to be separated, it will either be expensive to recycle or not done (guess which one it will be) whereas the old steel springs that have an extremely low failure…

I doubt that cat will be OK—these degenerates probably fucked it before they hanged it.

Breathalyzer to treat everyone like a criminal? And that doesn’t do shit for all the skunk-ass sucking pot junkies I smell driving wherever I go, never mind other drugs. Even with acute PTSD, I never did a drug in my fucking life and I hardly ever drank, definitely not before driving, so I’d prefer not to not only be…

Yes, but it still falls out from the gaps between the tailgate and body or wherever else it had fallen on the vehicle outside of the bed where nobody ever bothers to clean it off or gets thrown out from where it had been stuck in the tire treads. Plus the tarps I’ve seen are just roll out screens mounted to the front…

I think it’s more about the need to belong to a group in lieu of their own identity (as with most me-too “Stage X” canned-mod vehicles, be it performance cars or bro trucks).

I started to take flight lessons in these flying shitboxes and found it entirely underwhelming an experience considering the cost, time, and uselessness of a license (I wouldn’t own a plane, so I’d have to rent one and . . . do what with it? Fly in a circle and come back? Whoopie. Am I really going to use it as a trans…

I am the asshole and I don’t care, but I don’t think you are in this case, especially where dump truck drivers are consistently the absolute worst drivers on the road even when they’re not bouncing gravel all the fuck over the highways (I realize that’s not necessarily their fault, but fuck them, anyway)—either…