Do all commercials have names?  They should start putting those somewhere as a novelty.  I’ve seen enough good/funny/whatever commercials that I try to find later online to show people and can have a hard time finding them.

I’m curious how they don’t know how many busses were built, but they know that only one still exists.  How do they know that only one exists if they haven’t found all the other ones?

Just out of curiosity, is that the typical drop height for the liquid?  The lower you go for sure the more damage you are going to see, but it also feels like you’d want to drop from a higher height to get more coverage, granted I’m sure there’s still a certain amount of coverage you need for it to work correctly.

I thought the rules technically say “you have to leave racing room”, which is generally interpreted as ~one car width when fighting through a corner.  That’s the part I’ve never understood.  If the rule is there, why aren’t they enforcing it?

Meanwhile, multiple dealers confirmed that Dodge will be discounting the 2025 Charger EVs as a way of “getting them out there” as one dealership put it, which is honestly kind of troubling.

No, I’m pretty sure this is still the case.  Maybe it’s not “advanced” anymore, but it’s still distracting and can be very confusing depending on who felt like writing the software that day.

I can only wonder why they picked that particular engine.  It seems an odd choice to go with that many cylinders in such a small package, unless it’s significantly better for vibration or something like that.  I though 6 cylinders tended to be more naturally balanced though.

Wait, the Prelude isn’t out yet?  I swear I saw one in a parking lot a little while back.  Thought it was a nice looking car from behind and guessed it was something like a TLX, but noticed something was funny with the exhaust tips.  Could have sworn it had a badge that said Prelude on it.

Interesting to see what temperatures consumer vehicles might run.  I did some industrial EV work for a while and surprisingly the main driver motor wanted to be fairly hot for efficiency.  I think it wanted to run around 180-200 F if I remember right.  Certainly still nothing compared to exhaust temps on a combustion…

I’ve always wanted to do this, but with an original 80's Caravan.  Keep the plush velour seats and all and make it as sleeper looking as possible, but with an unfiltered exhaust note.  Pull up to school to pick up the kids and watch all the confused faces when you light it up and hear the rumble.

I’d encourage you to have the alignment checked out now that you’ve got all the work done. The factory caster and camber curves were made with a specific ride height and amount of travel in mind, and with it lowered and nothing else changed you’re more than likely running more camber now than before. Maybe not a huge…

I think it’s a nice looking car and would be the top of my EV list if I ever wanted to go that route.  I have plenty of other cars in my garage if I want to play with V8s.  It’s a bit of a shame I couldn’t have both, but for all the more I liked the new Challengers I never bought one of those either.  I just like…

Despite being a classic muscle car man and generally leaning toward the mighty V8, I have to admit I really kind of love the zaniness of an Autozam AZ-1.  It’s like a kid’s toy that you can actually use in theory.  Being 6' tall probably doesn’t help my odds of actually fitting in one...

A Viper, in more than one way.

I really wish people would stop judging this car against its past and instead judge it against its peers.  Yes, I miss the Hemi as much as the next guy, but if I had to buy an EV today, this would be the top of my list.  Everyone keeps saying that Dodge is “giving up” by building this, but how does it compare to all…

The new Hemi was pretty thoroughly modern compared to anything of the past. Variable length runners and VVT on some models, plus cylinder shutdown and all that jazz. A lighter block wouldn’t make any different for emissions (I’m pretty sure there are already aftermarket options for that as well). The Hemi’s strength…

Counterpoint: my 20+ year old Viper with 135,000 miles on the odometer that I can daily drive and fix myself with a standard set of hand tools and also completely thrash around a track with almost zero cares in the world.  The only expensive running cost on it is tires at ~$1500 a set.

Agreed, I’ve always appreciated the Viper for being what I call “mechanically fast”.  It doesn’t use electronics and torque vectoring and active braking and aero and all that stuff to individually control each corner to do what the computer thinks it needs to, it was just designed to go fast naturally.  To me it often…

The Viper has ACR specific tires made just for it, though my understanding was that the tires were the weak link in the record attempts.  I believe they had several failures with them over the course of the runs they made.

I’m pretty sure the ACR was run on the brand new ACR spec tires that were made just for it.  However, despite them being pretty incredible tires for still being street legal, my understanding is that they were still the weak link for the record attempts a while back.  They kept having issues with them failing as I…