No way... go hang out a liquor store during a storm and watch how many of them come in for nips. A good portion of them are drunk and highly caffeinated at the same time and don’t sleep until they’re done plowing.

It’s probably more noticeable with an actual manual shift. I don’t notice it much with the DSG. And honestly, it’s consistent, so you should be able to get used to it and adjust your shifting.  I also only use the DSG in auto mode in parking lots, otherwise, I’m only using the paddles.

Saying that was the exact same way is a bit of a stretch. Hamilton made 2 more passes at that same corner down the inside during that race and the other drivers didn’t turn in and take themselves out.

He also noted that. Though, to be fair, there’s plenty of steel that’ll rust on a ‘Vette.

Knew a dude who was originally from Rochester, NY. He had an 82 Corvette that he would drive year round. Someone we worked with said that ‘Vettes were horrible in the snow and his response was something like, “Maybe put snow tires on the thing and learn how to drive a car because I only own 1 car and I drive it in the…

You can change it at 10k, which was the recommendation on my last TDI. What I found was that after about 8k, mileage started to drop. It was super noticeable AFTER the oil change when highway consumption would drop so you would get higher MPG after the oil change up to 7-8k miles. Since it was a TDI and I wasn’t a…

As a white guy who’s checked out CRT and agrees with it... no fucking idea. The best I can imagine (because nothing in CRT covers free anything so they’re definitely making shit up) is that 1) a friend of a friend who has a few more brain cells told them that “the (insert derogative word used by racist ass bags to…

Um, they’re not going to... because you were right. Go on YouTube and search for Verstappen crash. His aggressive driving has done him well in the past, minus many of those crashes, but he hasn’t been penalized enough or had enough people explain to him why being overly aggressive in a race car can come with some bad…

They all came with radios. This one looks to have, maybe an older Blaupunkt unit with outdoor, waterproof speakers mounted under the dash. Which I guess makes sense... but I have no idea where the stock speakers were mounted since they didn’t have door cards to mount them in.

Oh definitely true... and you could still stuff an old diesel into pretty much anything and still have the same rig. But in the Mad Max world, someone with power is operating a refinery of some form.  The original film only had a wasteland area, but each film sees that area grow to the point that it seems all of…

You should try the Saw Mill River Parkway next. If you think the Merritt would cause daily pileups, the Saw Mill will blow your mind. During heavy commute times it’s like a paved roller coaster for cars.

Hopefully!

Obviously a fuckup on my part.... It will route you around restricted areas like low bridges and parkways.

Garmin has made a truck specific GPS for years that allows you to input the height and weight of your truck. It will then restrict your routes to locations where your truck can’t go.

Dude seems like a serious straight shooter and pretty damn funny as well... any chance y’all can hit him up on the regular?

You need to remember that trait and use it to your advantage. Sure, you’ll be ignoring cruise control and stepping on the accelerator, but once you’re past them, back to normal because they usually won’t speed up once you pass.

I’ve heard Italy is fun... then there’s all of South America and most of Africa (South Africa is its own whole category) and a bunch of Asian countries seem to be a hoot to drive in. Based soley on dash cam videos I’ve seen, the list of places not in the USA that will make your brown eye pucker also includes Russia,…

Helps to know your audience... one of our fork trucks is an Alice Chalmers that has less than 1,300 hours. I’ll retrain after a near miss simply because we don’t use the things often enough. I’ve been keeping track of the hours on the newer unit simply because if I haven’t been on it in a month I assume the propane…

The fucked up thing is that I need to re-train fork truck drivers every 3 years AND after any incident. Nothing like that for a car.

I’m wondering about the Vanilla Ice as well. Best I can guess is that it goes back to that MC Lyte question. Did the song help move the culture forward? I would guess that the group working on this felt that the song did. I will probably drop the $150 on this... but what I really want, more than the anthology, the…