As a design engineer I concur with the accountants being the root cause of shit cars. We’re given a target cost and told to make it suck as little as possible for that much money. 

To me Peugeot isn’t a whole lot different than Alfa here in the US. I think the cars look amazing but it’s not like they would be filling a hole in the market that isn’t already being served. If anything Alfa was in a little better position with the 4C even though it hasn’t exactly been a hot seller from what I can…

I went to Dachau while in Munich a few years back. I couldn’t bring myself to take a single picture of the place, I can’t imagine thinking that filming a video of yourself to promote your agenda could enter a person’s mind. 

I was driving to Minneapolis last week during the icy hell of the polar vortex with a guy from work. He’s really into Tesla but that cold air got us to talking about what having to crank up a heater would do to the range. We both kind of expected that with that big of a battery discharging there would have to be some…

I was 12 or 13 and my grandpa took me out in his ‘85 F150 with a straight 6 and a 4 speed. We went out on a gravel road with a big steep hill, at the bottom of the hill was one of those old country road bridges with planks for the road surface just wide enough for one car to drive across. He drove about halfway up the…

Deere had a cab-less fully autonomous tractor running around in like 95. A self driving tractor for planting is pretty easy because it generally doesn’t have to dodge other vehicles in the field. Cars have it a little tougher because of traffic. 

The rule I have is if two other people laugh you’re not a jerk, it’s funny. 

People keep saying why buy a small truck when you can get a full size for the same price. While that technically may be true it’s not the reality once you start optioning them out at least it wasn’t when I was shopping for them. I was cross shopping a Tacoma vs a F150 and when you start looking at comparable trim…

I don’t know that we have enough data on this current Tacoma V6 to know for sure. The old one was bullit proof but this latest gen Tacoma has that new engine so who knows if it’s as reliable as the old one. The other thing is will that frame rot in half on the Tacoma? My boss just had a full frame replaced on his a…

I’m 6'2" and don’t mind it at all either.

If this would have been back to the US 2 years ago I would have this instead of my Tacoma. Don’t get me wrong I like my Tacoma but looking at it against the Ranger and the GM twins it’s like Toyota didn’t think they had to try. 

For my money the first to Captain America movies are the best MCU movies. The Winter Soldier is hands down my favorite movie in the whole MCU. The Avengers and Civil War for that matter are getting too bloated and trying to juggle way to many leads.

That guy looks like Sebastian Vettel who also by coincidence should not be coaching the Green Bay Packers.

We call them exothermic reactions here.

Smokey Yunick is laughing at this from his grave. 

I’d love to take a couple laps around there on a shifter kart. 

All open wheel cars are the same didn’t you know?

Just buy a Morgan then. Lots of wood in the frame of that car. 

My grandpa knew JB Hunt growing up (I think they were distant cousins). Apparently he was obsessed with ducks when they were kids. Whenever we’d see a JB Hunt truck going down the road he’s make some smart ass comment about there goes a load of ducks.