F series engines are timing chain. These are F-series engines.

Because you should at get enough to be back in a reasonably equivalently reliable vehicle, at least if you’re not at fault. When two POS rear-ended and totaled my perfect-running, great shape, paid-off, 5-yo car, it took me 6 months with a lawyer just to get even 1/3 the replacement cost of my low end compact, which…

Most 4s are inlines that use balance shafts, which boxer 4s don’t need (so they don’t use them). The I4s can seem smoother thanks to the balance shafts, but not due to inherent balance.

Titanic: killing 1%ers since 1912. Send them all!

One big reason I prefer manuals is that the clutches alone are often longer lived than many of these shift-for-yous. What’s the point here in adding things to break? Another point of a manual is in being able to set up the power band range for a turn. An EV with a broader power range doesn’t really need that and the…

I agree. The proposed change is useful for fleet or government regulatory use, but not terribly useful for the great majority of individuals in the real world who would be comparing cars within a similar category and, even if they were looking at vehicles on such different ends of the spectrum, it would be quite a…

“My GR86 doesn’t have a third row seat and sucks off road! 1/5!” That’s how dumb many of these read about off-road focused vehicles. Poor reliability is definitely what CR should be rating and maybe the mileage is so bad in this day and age that it bears specific pointing out, but giving any weight to these invalid…

It’s all win for him since he also gets to play victim, which fits the profiles.

The proper tool for guys who pay someone to make a service call to change an accessible lightbulb.

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.