Here in Houston, which is the nation's largest truck market, gas is $1.80 and Diesel is $2.65. That's a massive difference.

1) The engine has variable valve timing so it can switch between Otto and Atkinson cycles depending on load.

Kirkwood is east of Dairy Ashford and Eldridge and all 3 run North-South, are you thinking of somewhere else?

I think you meant to say that these are going to just be driven around those potholes very carefully because the owner doesn't want to hurt his status symbol. Seriously, every day on Eldridge and Kirkwood I see these guys in their massive pickups slamming into the next lane to avoid a 3" deep pothole while everyone in…

Price does not always equal quality.

The Z06 is a 650 horsepower Corvette. Six hundred. And fifty. A Corvette that gets to 60 in less than three seconds. A Corvette than can stop from 60 in less than 100 feet. A Corvette that can pull 1.2 G in a corner. And a Corvette that costs less than $100,000. It's an all-American middle finger to every other high…

The difference is that none of those countries have an economy that depends on trade with the USA. Economic sanctions only affect trade so they can have a much larger effect on China than on any of the countries you listed. Just look at how US and EU sanctions on Russia have crashed the Russian economy.

When Jalopnik first introduced their ratings system they intended it to be like the latter because that is precisely what other reviewers with point scores (such as CR) fail to do. However, poor editorial control of this system has resulted in the numbers losing all meaning. They might as well just go back to a…

For a minivan that shifter placement is perfect. A console shifter would require a bulky console instead of the fold-down tray they came up with and there's so much room on the dash that a column shifter would be in the way by comparison. Everything in those 3rd gen odysseys is so well designed it's amazing that…

It seems to be instructions for the park assist feature.

America is the world's biggest importer, more so than the entire European Union or China, and it achieves this despite far less population than either. Americans have an insatiable appetite for luxury goods and Cuba is only 90 miles off the coast. This could be huge for the rum and cigar industries there, along with…

It's still unbeaten because we perfected recon satellites that orbit at 18,000 mph and didn't look back.

Towson is a 1-AA school in the University of Maryland system.

When I drive across the MD eastern shore to the Delaware seashore I almost always see a school bus, filled to the brim with watermelon, with no tags and "FARM USE" spray painted on all sides. It's been doing that for years so I guess it's legal.

This country may have been founded on freedom but it runs on money. Been that way for a long time now.

So I went home and checked the specs, and it turns out that I'm right: the GLA is just 58.8 inches high, compared to 66.3 for the Equinox. That may not seem like much, but consider this: the Equinox is almost 13 percent taller than the GLA – the same percentage difference between a person who's six feet tall and…

Dude fuck that. If a valet is driving my car I don't want them to be thinking about how tight of a gap they can squeeze into, they need to be leaving plenty of room. Beside, running it on 4 cylinders still leaves it with over 200 ft-lbs, which is plenty.

The 1st generation Prius had 100 hp and is usable on public roads. Why couldn't they lock it in ACM mode with the valet key?

Unfortunately, the local government has a vested interest in increasing local land values. The higher the assessments under their jurisdiction the more tax revenue they collect. I'd bet the track doesn't pay too many taxes.

Based on the description he likely was in the Potomac river valley on the way to the MD state line. It's a nice steep incline and there's 5 lanes in either direction. I hit the top speed of two of my cars on this section of highway.