Third: wanting nearly impossible to find manual transmissions

A far easier approach is to NOT COUNT unbelted fatalities as auto fatalities. Instead create a new “idiot” category for them. Lumping them in with belted occupants unfairly penalizes the auto industry and leads to idiotic things like automatic seat belts.

I’m pretty sure the entire rest of this story drove the point home... getting a ticket is to warn you before something bad has happened. In this case I highly doubt that a ticket is going to make more of a point than what actually happened to them.

Allegedly the fastest car in the world is car referred to as “My Buddy’s Mustang”. I hear about it at every car show but have yet to lay eyes on it.

I’ve actually heard of that happening. You’re not the only one. But I bet you’ve never accidentally drained the transmission fluid instead of the oil, have you? Can you imagine how stupid one would feel if one had made such a mistake?

The 1972 Honda Z’s proportions seem so wrong. Or did I mean “perfect?”

I’m telling you all, give it a few years and it’ll turn out Evans was hired just to be a hate sink for one season in order that the people that would hate anyone who wasn’t Clarkson would have someone to bitch about and a little victory to crow about when he left. That way he’d smooth the way for the rest of the new…

The SAFER barriers might not prevent the initial wreck, but they do help prevent the secondary wrecks by not flinging the car back in front of traffic.

But then you look at the photos and realise that, in truth, this is merely the golden age of pub facts.

That’s easy. Don’t turn the wipers on until the ice has been melted or otherwise removed.

If you have gas you can turn the car on to provide heat, most vehicles could idle for 2 or more hours per gallon based on 2014 government stats a 2 liter could idle for 6 hours on a single galon...

HOA’s are horrible. Fuck that noise.

Jason, not sure if its your jam but I did a little write-up about the different types of tires for use in the cold wet stuff and a sort of decision guide for which one to use. Might be worth a read

When I was a teenager a friend of mine tried to do this with a go-kart (the second idea). One 400cc Single Cylinder motorbike engine running each back wheel. He essentially bought 2 wrecked dirt bikes that had heavy front end damage and then took the engine, gearbox, swing arm and rear wheel of each and mounted them…

Someone’s gonna need a ‘Hip’ replacement.

What are you talking about? The Celica GT was THE CAR in SCCA GS autocross for a great number of years due to it’s handling. It took the Focus ST to dethrone it with brute force, though it still won a National Championship in it’s (likely) swan song performance in GS-Ladies this year.

The B21A1 engine used exclusively in the Prelude had a reinforced cylinder lining. It was pretty tough, but could eat through piston rings and lead to atrocious oil consumption (as I learned the hard way. Still miss that car though!) It’s simultaneously the most Honda (sturdy engine component) and least Honda (lead to…

Orange. Because it’s my fucking car.