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There’s a section of us constantly telling him to get something, anything, reliable.  But he just ignores us.

Wrenching on broken XJs: It’s a sickness lifestyle.

Sounds pretty rhythmic to me in that video - not in rhythm with the engine, per se, but rhythmic nonetheless. Areas I’ve seen weird sounds like that emerge:

My previous car was a Lexus IS250 and it had a similar tick. Dealer mechcanic told me it was the direct injection high pressure fuel injectors firing and it was normal. Drove the car for 12 years and never had a problem with the fuel injectors but it still had the same tick noise from the day I bought it new till the

Ticking Mustang engine = growling human stomach; these are just facts.

It’s cause they’re hungry.

Sadly, this car’s story isn’t all added horsepower and rainbows. The S4 Avant was totaled by his insurance company after a crash in December.

Thats a neat stretched beetle, but can we talk about the fact that his garage is the stuff of dreams?

I was just thinking about this the other day: It just wouldn’t matter how skilled your engineers were - or how well funded - if you aren’t in the sport for long enough to know what you can and can’t get away with in regards to the rulebook you aren’t going to be be competitive.

Evidently I’m the only person who things the car did what it should have.

Full disclosure: I am in the industry and run the teams that develop this kind of tech. I would also agree that is how I’d want it engineered. Moving sideways = loss of control + Impact (pothole) = airbag deployment.

I think its good that it went

*2018 jd power award for most curtain airbag deployments

the company has done this exact thing on two different Jukes and a 370Z in just the last couple of years. It’s a pointless exercise that is intended to get attention

Russian automobiles used to come off the assembly line in worse shape.

Hey, he got his car off of the flatbed and drove away. Sounds minor enough to me.

PORTRAIT!!!! WHYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!