Par for the course. Sometime around 1970, TVR had a display at the London (?) motor show that had completely nude women on the stand with the cars.

Not normally a defender of cops, but cop is 100% right here and I find myself incapable of scraping up any empathy for this degenerate or if the same or worse happened to any of his numerous clones out there. Criminal crashed himself into cop in midst of criminal activity in which he was endangering others and it even …

No, you’re exactly right and insurance is already totaling cars even for minor parts because Tesla won’t produce enough spares. Think they’re going to build extra giant castings, warehouse them somewhere, then ship them out as needed? Let’s say they actually do and it’s somehow not prohibitively expensive to do all…

It’s a terrible idea on many levels. Large castings are very difficult, especially for odd shaped parts of varying thickness as you have to have the temperatures, feeds, breathers, etc. dialed in. IF you get your processes down finally, you have a single part that likely cannot be reworked if it doesn’t pass QA (this…

Looks just like the shift knob of the Focus ST. Probably what the drivetrain is sourced from, as well.

Though the numbers were declining because they were well outdated, neglected, and with highly known recalls, the Fusion and Focus sold over 100k per year every year until they were discontinued. The Fiesta didn’t sell well, but few people want subcompacts in general. The Ecosport that Ford planned to replace the Focus…

My grandfather was walking 6 miles a day at 101, then he had to have a kidney removed and slowed down a bit.

It’s the problem of not knowing any different. Unless they go out of their way to experience a vintage car (JFC, this thing is vintage now)—and maybe have to learn how to drive a manual with nobody to teach them and nothing to practice on—all they’re going to know is overweight, fingerprint-covered spyware garbage…

I’ve read about this before and there’s apparently a lot of debate in Tucker circles about its provenance. I tend to believe the story that it’s a prototype because it fits the appearance, but according to the nerds, there’s no proof of it and they tend to think it’s a modified sedan (the arguments are out there if…

I like the idea of it eating a guy better, but it’s from the flag of Milan, a snake birthing a baby out its mouth (this is why schools introduced sex ed). The history is a bit unclear with the snake sometimes attributed to a 1000 year old bronze sculpture that came from . . . IDK. Another is that it’s a Muslim from…

With the rates they’ve got, I don’t think credit rating is something they think about. If their scores were probably 10 lower, they’d have no purchase options outside of Nissans and Mitsubishis.

Yeah, I got in enough trouble with 73 hp (and the joy of impact bumpers).

I didn’t watch it, but I heard about it. Didn’t he basically say that he has done the same thing with overvaluing properties and that “everybody” does it? Sounds to me like he’s suggesting that he should be the next target of an investigation (and that it’s easy to be rich when you have no scruples and can cheat the…

He’s a moron plain and simple. Besides the naive trust in trail maintainers, we’ve been getting a lot of wind the last few years and large limbs and trees fall all the time (I have a 1/4 miles driveway through the woods and I average about 1 large tree fall over the driveway per year and large branches a lot more…

Not to pile onto conspiracy in this day and age, but I doubt he was the only guy to know something. With all the problems resulting in investigations of late, this could be a message to anyone else thinking of coming forward or even cooperating with the investigators. Sure, killing this guy looks suspicious to the…

Roadies are the Dodge Ram drivers of cycling. Entitled douchebags, the lot of them, even to other people on bikes and even on trails. I’ve been stopped for a light in my bike and they’ll roll through it next to me. I blame them for 90% of the interactions people have on the road with aggressive cars as the spandexers…

Because you’re buying cheap junk toilets. I have an efficient Toto that an elephant couldn’t clog where I have never had a problem jamming old school toilets with my very non-elephantine ass. As a kid, I got good at selecting an appropriate stick to assist the toilet—just flexible enough not to break, but with enough…

Nothing. It was a valid, if expensive, solution to EU regulations calling for increased pedestrian safety. What we got were taller cowls so driving even a hatchback seemed like taxiing a taildragger aircraft after driving something older with actual visibility from a reasonable cowl height.

I also liked them because they allowed for the steering wheel to be easily changed out instead of the hideous, steering-feel-reducing airbag wheels all for the dubious sake of safety from those shitty early airbags that were a danger to anyone of smaller stature due to the high power of their deployment and the…

It was in response to EU pedestrian safety standards. Other ideas from other OEMs were pop-up hoods. What was settled on is a set amount of open space above the hard points in the engine compartment, which raised the cowl height on cars, negating some of the safety both in terms of greater potential damage to the…