Forza used to be that way. Not as intense as GT, but you had to work up, and some cars were locked until you reached a certain level. They changed that around some time ago (3, I think?) because they received tons of complaints that the cars people were buying the game for were level-locked, so they opened it up and…

The article:

"It's not a simple plastic slab, of course — it's a semi-transparent panel that has a pattern carved into its rear surface that looks like frozen crystal math. Fractals and algorithms rendered as waves, with depth and reactive to light and dimensional. It's all on the back of the panel, leaving the front…

Oh if only that were the only situation that applied.

You should see Philadelphia. I went out there last year after a small snowfall of maybe an inch and got stuck in traffic for hours due to a ton of accidents on perfectly flat ground with enough traction. I stopped complaining about Pittsburgh drivers for that whole winter.

I'm wondering if Hummingbird 2 is a further development of the street-legal Formula Ford car they were touting about some time ago.

Colorado also has it on the tailgate handle. Honestly not many other places you can put a backup camera on a pickup.

RAM 750 from Mexico would do it for me. That's even more unlikely than a new Dakota, though.

I'm susprised you can't. My Dart came hill start, but it is possible to turn it off with one of those 'key in ACC, press this pedal so many times while wheel is full left' type of maneuvers, and once switched off it stays off until you reenable it. Good for those people who want it off and fine for people like me who…

This just raises the question of why you still have the ex's number.

Yes, it's coming in the 2016 model year.

I just want to clear up some science here. Consumers spilling hydrogen gas would not significantly contribute to global warming, as hydrogen escapes the Earth's atmosphere at the rate of about 3 kg/s. (Industrial accidents have a higher significance, but lower occurrence. End result is a wash.) The real contribution…

This is the first time I've seen the Caravan or T&C referenced positively. Most of the time people are ripping on them as the worst of the minivans, and I don't know why. The newer T&Cs are perfectly fine, from my driving impressions.

Rumor says some 2016 Cadillacs will get GM's SuperCruise technology for hands-free interstate driving. I can't be certain about what it's for, but yesterday I saw an XTS prototype with extra sensors hanging off the front bumper that I suspect were for SuperCruise.

That'll never happen. Immediately opens up the advocate to criticism that they're advocating unsafe ideas. The best you can probably hope for is a change in the certification process so you don't have to run the full gamut of tests with every possible powertrain configuration, and that'll only result in more engine…

I'd be surprised if GM doesn't do this. Sure, Jeep kept the VM diesel in the GC to upper trims, but they're just aiming at the Germans with that. RAM opened up the ED to lower trims, some quite affordable even with the pricy engine. GM should know pickup shoppers don't want the diesel exclusively in higher trim…

FIATRAM Strada750 FTW

A good book to read on this is Griftopia.

Diesel has more taxes levied on it and different demand curves, since it's the fuel for trucking companies and is related to the heating oil still in use in the northern parts of the country.

I can see the logic. Given BMW's available options, the driver's smartphone may be in the center console cradle and not easily visible. Also, the driver may prefer going through iDrive since: 1] the nav unit can use the RTTI to reroute around traffic by itself, and 2] having the information on the head unit that can…

Many have internal batteries good for hours, so you'd just have to remember to turn it on and off and charge it. You can also see about hiding the wires (my Dart has enough space between trim bits to shove the wire into, so it's almost perfectly out of view), or as a final measure, hardwire it into the rearview mirror…