Genuinely asking: any examples? I haven’t experienced this in a modern car. I tend to avoid using the accelerator at all when transitioning from stationary to forward motion unless I’m pointed up a hill. Cars like the the 1.4l Fiat 500 with a lowly 101hp, 98ft-lbs of torque, are completely capable of starting off from…

Why not both? Leather seats with cloth inserts. The leather classes it up, and on the edges of the seat definitely seems to be a more durable material than cloth. The cloth insert is cloth and doesn’t burn/freeze you to death. They also can look nice. I prefer full-leather seats, but these aren’t a bad compromise.

So either you’re a saint, or your the oblivious person at whom the horn-usage of others is directed.

Old post, but still have to ask - are these OEM Cadillac horns? That’s absolutely hilarious and I want them for the irony effect (installation on a Fiat Abarth). That said, I’ve also been eyeing a Roadrunner “meep meep” horn which would be more appropriate for the size/goofiness of the Fiat.

Not sure why this topic is on the front-page again, but commenting anyway to discuss the Fiat 500 mileage. It does, indeed, vary pretty widely dependent upon your driving style (like any car). That gulf is massive. My old 500 Pop (with the stick) would return a lowly 25ish mpg when beaten savagely in stop-and-go, but…

I’m not saying that I want to test it to find out, but you know how sometimes when you injure yourself really badly, and it doesn’t hurt because of the shock/massive adrenaline surge? Maybe having one’s head lopped off is a bit like that.

A rapist is a criminal, a principal isn’t (hopefully). If this shitstain has to live in fear, good. He caused someone else pain and suffering, and he can now live with the consequences (the ire of the community). I’m not advocating for shooting him, but if the concern is incitement to violence/someone actually turning…

And they say vigilante justice is never acceptable. People like this need to be deleted with a shotgun blast to the face.

It probably depends on what you're trying to charge more than anything. They seem equivalent to the a/c wall wart adapters in charging speed, but they're not as strong. I.e. I haven't foun d one that can charge an iPad.

Just because people with money have decided that scaling Everest is a casual activity does not make it any less dangerous than it has been in decades past. It still kills lots of experienced climbers, not to mention fucktards who are doing it solely for the instagram posts and facebook profile photo.

You can, just get one of those things that adapts the 12V cigarette-lighter port into a USB/whatever port. Like $5.o0, no chance for security issues. The issue here is that plugging a device in/linking bluetooth downloads a lot of the phone’s stored data to the car.

In plate-to-owner states, I’m amazed that they leave their plate on the car, to say nothing else for all of the shit they leave in it.

More likely “is that the acrid smell of burning tyres, or of liquid fearshit burning through my panties like thermite?”

True. This is why dashcams are a good thing - it just completely ends the debate in most cases. I found myself on the receiving end of a stupid person’s stupidity one October morning, and while his insurance company wasn’t very apt to fight my claim, I found that mentioning the dashcam footage got the claim resolved…

I thought a smart person would probably just not collide with an extremely large and loud vehicle, or check their mirrors and not run over a smaller vehicle?

Yes, that’s horrifying.

It must be supremely strange to have the sensation, however brief, of being completely detached from your body. And given that brain death probably takes a few minutes after that, to ponder on it in the hallucination-festivus that oxygen-starvation must be.

I’m really kinda shocked that they aren’t missing arms or whatever if the thing rolled and completely disintegrated. It’s because people’s natural reaction is to fling their arms out and try to stop themselves ragdolling about in the car. Rally drivers do the opposite, most of the time - let go of the wheel and pull…

Do you still feel pain if your head has been separated from the rest of you? These guys are deffo missing limbs of the car rolled.

Maybe I don’t even understand why there are such things as motorized doors in the first place if they’re such a potential hazard. Sensors fail and I believe the user has a responsibility to ensure they’re operating a device safely. If the door has femur-crushing capacity, why would you trust the life and limb of some…