Though I do work in the auto industry, this is about a coworker of mine and not me. He has a barn FULL of parts. Production badges, prototype badges for cars that were never made, part masters, color masters, you name it, hes got it. He even has full scale engineering drawings for a certain 60s American sports car.…

Hmmmm... Maybe its time for water meth injection then.... Yea I can just tell the car isn’t the same as well. Just not quite as peppy as with true premium gas.

I feel you. I have the GIAC X+ tune on my MK4. I wouldn’t say its a huge difference with my finely tuned butt dyno, but I can definitely notice a small difference. I heard about some legit octane boosters you can buy online and have shipped, I’m debating trying one out just to see if it actually works. That, or I…

Don’t forget, 91 octane is premium fuel... I just moved from a non liberal utopia, so I’m used to higher octane as premium.

You’re so right. I moved to Detroit for college in the fall of 2008 for an automotive related education, so after being at school for like a month, everything hit the fan and I debated going back home and figuring out something else. I didn’t leave, got a job out of college and have been there ever since. That job…

GM has an entire warehouse where they do this. It has a funny nickname that I can’t remember right now... it might be called the Mona Lisa or something.

Well this is awesome. My company produced these simulations, and I work very closely with the people responsible for creating all this. Cool to see it on Jalopnik!

I had a similar experience at NAIAS a few years ago when Ford had Ken Blocks rally car there. I was there during press week, and I saw the car sitting all by itself so I took a quick look around before I opened the door and climbed in. I felt around for a minute, touching things like a child and then the door opened…

Wow that seems crazy. I’m only 25, so I my memory of it being released is seeing the cover at the video store, and knowing it was a movie I couldn’t watch because I wasn’t old enough. Then at some point in high school I actually watched it, and loved it.

Fight club right? Number of deaths, cost of a recall vs cost of a settlement.

I actually have one of these as a rental right now. My god is the transmission garbage for a vehicle that large. I guess I don’t really like the way a CVT behaves to begin with, even in the Versa (which I’ve also had as a rental), but in the Pathfinder, its straight crap. Shifting from Park to reverse or drive it…

I was the official brake pumper when bleeding brakes. “Press down....Let up. Press down... All the way to floor. Good, now let up”. Doing that kind of stuff really helped with my knowledge of how things functioned. Even if I wasn’t actually working on the car, I knew what I was helping my dad do, and why it had to be…

My 2 year old niece is the same way with my nephew who is 12. I was able to find a hot pink 70 Charger, and a few other bright colored cars that I picked up for her. I was surprised how much she loved playing with them, just wheeling them around making a vacuum cleaner type noise.

I think hotwheels are actually good for a lot of things. It was one of the first things I would use my money to buy, since they’re so cheap, so it gives kids that mentality of saving for something you like, and thinking about making a purchase. I would trade kids hot wheels in school, or trade my brothers and sisters…

Even before the Bosch involvement I feel like other companies have to be doing it because they’re all too quite. As far as I know no one has spoken out against VW, and you’d think someone might have, even if to say something like “Hey our diesels don’t cheat!”. Theres also a ton of bench marking done nowadays and…

Even leaving out the fact that people bought a car with good intentions about being a clean diesel, they bought a product. The company who made that product lied about the product. I didn’t go around leaving notes on peoples iPhones when their antennas didnt work saying “Shoulda bought an android!”

That, and people act like all the VW drivers were in on the lie and we all now just got caught. I picked a car, the company lied about something. I don’t leave notes on your car because the airbag might explode, or you shove too many mats on the floor causing your pedals to get jammed.

I totally agree that making it into a marketing buzzword thing was dumb. BUT, I think the bow tie border looks so much better than the giant gaudy gold bow tie. They could use this style on every car and it would look so much better than the giant plastic gold emblem.

I saw a 550 Maranello at Kings Hawaiian the other day. Not a supercar by todays standards, but it was my childhood dream car, so it was awesome to see it there.

As someone who is new to SoCal, I love the trophy truck look. It’s something I haven’t seen in NY or MI, so its something new that keeps me entertained.