I mean, yes and no. There is a big difference between a 3.0L turbo I6 burning gasoline and a 15.0L turbo I6 burning diesel. Semi-truck engines also have jake brakes which passenger car engines do not.

Regardless, I’ve put over 90k miles on a clutch with regular rev-match down shifting and engine braking and overall…

Once upon a time I brought my BMW into the dealership for warranty work and apparently, I had a lot less wear on the pads and rotors than I should have. I had the service writer mansplain (I’m a man, he was a man, so it was weird) that engine braking can do considerable damage to the engine and gearbox and it’s much…

wth is going on with that Top Gun ride-along?  Since when does a Super Hornet come with high bypass turbofans slung under the wings?

I’ve looked for that setting on our SLK and haven’t been able to find it. :(

sounds like Toyota got it right early on.  Nissan for sure did not.

I suspect that they saw that the trim level was the most popular initially, so then they built a shitload of them, and now have extra.

On my older cars (MY 2003 Nissan, MY 2007 M-B, MY 2011 BMW) the automatic sensors were crap. My lights would come on every time I drove through an underpass or even an extended shadow. To avoid my very expensive xenon bulbs from going on and off 3-4 times a commute, I would switch them off in the day time and auto at…

agreed on the e-bike thing.  they’re faster and heavier than traditional bikes and I would be wary about using rim brakes.

I race cross country mountain bikes. If they made automatic shifting as quick and seamless as say, Porsche PDK, I’d be open to trying it during a race.

and by seamless and quick I would want it to keep me between 125-150w at 70-80 rpms for 90% of the course but also know when I want to stand on the pedals for a quick…

hydraulic disc brakes are overkill for casual biking and maybe even road bikes, but utterly clutch for mountain bikes

This article made me feel like a dumbass.

I’m on my 4th Infiniti over 20 years.

This article is confusing. On one hand it’s saying BMW is going to kill the manual because more and more customers over time are opting for slushboxes...yet half the M2s sold are with 3 pedals and they’re *introducing* 3 pedals onto the Z4.

Something is weird here. The article quotes a BMW board member as saying the…

And looking at the photo again, that actually might be a Super Decathalon

yeah, I mean the more I think about it - even taxiing in a tail dragger is tricky. Never done it myself, but I once rode in the back of a buddy’s Super Decathalon and he had to zig zag down the taxiway.

He had to have had some sort of flight training. Landing a plane is tricky enough, landing a tail dragger...on sand...impressive.

Some wildlife expert was quoted on WBEZ (the local NPR station) that it was likely a squirrel that fell out of a tree and probably not a rat, but that it’s totally feasible that this is the actual imprint of an animal.

We’ll see.

I was a launch customer for SNES, N64, and GC. Then the Wii came along and after 9 months I got so fed up of not being able to find one I skipped it *and* the Wii U

I was planning on ignoring the Switch for the same reasons, but received one as a gift and now I’m hooked again.

That said, I have a very low…

I’ve ridden motorcycles, and I’ve ridden high speed trains.  Not sure the thrill is quite there with the train (but they’re hella comfortable).  As stated earlier, a better bet is just more access to race tracks.

I went through the rest of the list. “Great” is not the word I would use here. The Mini Cooper and ATS notwithstanding.

But a nostalgia shout out to the Beretta Z26 and Dodge Daytona.  They weren’t great at all, but were the envy of my high school parking lot

“Here are some great coupes you probably forgot existed”

...leads with a 1995 Monte Carlo.

wut?