Not me. Don’t like tall (though it’s not a disqualifier), don’t like slender in its usual form used to describe runway models who are rail-thin and shapeless, and I don’t prefer blondes or really pale skin. Growing up in the anti-ass, silicone-chest ‘80s, I didn’t really understand the bikini posters of nearly flat hip…

It’s just about perfect for the job. Getaways aren’t generally like the movies and if they get to that point, things went bad and you’re likely getting caught, plus we’re talking a crowded city, so a fast car’s acceleration and top speed are almost worthless. A motorcycle would be faster, but these things are…

Yeah, while I agree that car-centric infrastructure contributes to the problem, suburban sprawl has been a thing for decades. I think the relatively recent rise of social media and ubiquitous connectivity with its addictively constant information scrolling combined with FOMO (ironic as people miss out when they are on…

I know my neighbor! He’s in a cult started by some former white collar criminal who stole $16M or something like that, but hey, they have some E-list actor from Dawson’s Creek in it! I’m glad he’s a 1/4 mi. driveway away.

Seen 3 or so (same one, 2 or 3 times, who can tell?). They’re even wavier looking in person than I expected (maybe they’ll be identifiable by their panels’ particular waves, kind of like the unique markings on a whale). Looks like an old B-movie sci-fi prop—maybe one of those original Star Wars knockoffs—but not in a…

For me it’s obnoxious safety nannies of highly dubious benefit to anyone doing the bare minimum of paying attention and common false activations or failures to work (see recent IIHS EAB tests) that make the car less safe and also cause vehicles to sometimes be totaled for minor collisions due to lack of parts/expense;…

Real OEMs can’t seem to program fucking e-throttles to not lag and we’re trusting a shitbag company like Tesla to do steer-by-wire correctly? This garbage should be illegal. Benefits are virtually none (and nothing that matters) with very high potential for serious consequences in the event of easily foreseen failure…

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…