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Well, 20 years ago I was ridiculed by a then-famous german helmet maker when I suggested to him to give his helmets decent aerodynamics, winglets and airflow splitters to reduce the rumble of wind turbulence to reduce noise, reduce drag and increase their helmets’ stability in high-speed air flow, instead of always…

The Oslo city council will change course on this a full 180 degrees as soon as the first 10.000 Osloan car owners have sued the city for compensation and damages. The only ones who will wildly applaud to this ham-fisted approach will be the lawyers.

That’s exactly what Porsche and Mercedes-Benz do in a BIG way (with a capital “big”) in Germany. You can even buy almost all parts for your classic Porsche or Merc NEW from the companies, for a perfect restoration - or simply, to keep it on the road with original spare parts. BMW and Audi, not so much. VW - not at…

...”finnish”, you certainly mean, no?

Doug, you wrote - quote: “The first time it broke was February 20, 2013, before I ever started writing about cars, when I took it to the dealer for an oil change and they discovered the radiator was leaking and my lower control arms were worn. (...) After a mere 90 days of Range Rover ownership, CarMax paid out…

Omygod - how ungodly ugly is THIS truck? What IS this - a horizontal permutation of the Edsel? What were Ford’s designers thinking, when they designed THIS caricature of a truck front?

The tuning parts mounted on/in this bike are worth over 1000 dollars already. Take another 1000 and buy some lighter wheels (the early cast rims from Yamaha were heavy as lead), a twin disc front brake, sports rear shocks and, maybe, a stiffer fork, and you’ll have a reall head-turner in the thumper-scene. NP.

JimZ, in case the thread is damaged on a lug bolt, just replace the bolt and you’re done. Try this with wheel studs, instead... Such damage on the thread occured quite often in those days, when pressed steel rims were the norm, because Germans use to change from summer to snow tires and back every year. (You know,…

You always blink where you intend to go/stay, when you see a faster car closing up on you in the mirrors - preferably to/on the right side on the track. In a slower car, or if you are less experienced than other drivers, you will look into the mirrors way more often than you will look ahead, which might get quite…

And a few more recent “Touristenfahrten” from 2015. Enjoy - but better don’t get too close...

Only if you want to kill yourself. It’s an overpowered toy with really mean manners. You better use a decent car ,instead.

Oh, no big deal, really?

Hi, there. I am from Adenau at the Nurburgring. My dad was born there, 100 Meters from the Breitscheid-bridge. My grand uncle was a motorcycle racer on the Ring, my dad worked as a track marshall there, and I grew up watching races on the Ring, saw Giacomo Agostini chasing down the foxhole on his howling MV Agusta,…

On Tesla losing money on every car they sell: I don’t really see why they should. I mean, a car costing 60.000 Dollars while it’s in short supply could easily be priced at 70.000 Dollars and STILL sell like hot cakes. So what gives? It’s not like Tesla would compete against Volkswagen price-wise. Their competitors are…

If you want a truly modular classic car hybrid concept, just mount in-wheel motors to the rear wheels, add some wires to the steering wheel and back and throw your accu-pac in the trunk. To engage the electric engines in the wheels, add a button on the steering wheel, which you press to power the electric motors, just…

No, you are not. First of all, engins wear out not because of max accelleration or high rpm or something, but to 99 percent because of COLD STARTS. Yes, you read this right: It’s the cold starts, which kill engines prematurely. If you keep starting an shutting down an engine without giving it a chance to properly heat…

All-in-all, a car’s average speed is about 35 mph during it’s lifetime - a little more in the country, a little less in a big city. From there you can calculate the average running hours of a car. With 700 K miles, the engine will have run approx. 2000 hours - which, coincidentially, is exactly the…

The world needs a racing series for just that. I’m for an open sportscars championship. Limit the tires, the aerodynamics, give it air restrictors and a minimum weight limit, and leave everythin else to competition. If you want to race a twostroke engine: Fine. If you want to run a turbosupercharged Diesel: Great. If…

No shit: one of my grand uncles, after whom I was named, used to race a supercharged DKW-bike in the german motorcycle championship in the early 1950s. When his money ran out, he grabbed a shotgun and tried to rob the local bank - alas, to no avail. Grand uncle Michael spent the rest of his days first in jail and…