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Jesus those Oregon drivers will come up whit ANYTHING to not have to fill their own damn tanks....

I took the BMW driving school there in SC almost two years ago and Johan is the main instructor there. He’s the “prototypical” Austrian, pretty funny and relaxed but a real hard ass and very demanding of his students as well. I highly recommend taking the course if anyone is thinking about it — we learned a whole…

In the past I was usually apathetic about award shows; I didn’t watch them and didn’t care one way or another if other people did. But the last few years I’ve grown to hate them, mostly because they’ve become venues for people to blast piping hot outrage takes all over Twitter.

They should make a wagon and call it the Aston Martin Wagonda.

Have you heard Macolm Gladwell’s podcast on it? It’s pretty interesting, and boils down to “People are idiots”. It’s a bit painful to hear such a non car-guy explain what’s going on, especially when they try it in a Roush Mustang, but basically in a brakes vs engine battle, the brakes always win. Even stuck WOT in…

Yep. Basically the whole Camry unintended accelerations thing was bullshit. Had nothing to do with the cars and everything to do with the driver excepting the case the floormat got under one of them.

What a reminder of where Cadillac was in the 90's. Here’s a pic from BMW’s 7 in the same year.

This is why I’m always skeptical when people say their cars accelerated without their control, or that their car plowed forward even when they were on the brakes. 

Unintended Vehicle Acceleration (UVA) is a fascinating rabbit hole to research but it usually falls to a few demographics of the driver and if an engineer/troubleshooter gets called in (in my case GM) to access black box info I’m not privy to it almost always shows accelerator position 100% and brake position 0%. (And…

Tires Mushy, Pressurize Soon

counterpoint

More and more, Trump looks like a Fernando Botero painting.

“Lug-zhury”.

The Earth Dreams all the petroleum was left in the ground.

About an hour ago, my cousin proposed an Obama-Trump Presidential Golf Shootout Pay-Per-View.

SKYACTIV was coined from the term “the sky is the limit,” with regard to what the parameters were on the engineering project. The engineers were told to think of their ideal state of innovations and work back from there (SKYACTIV-X was part of that and mapped out—publicly—as early as 2010). When it all debuted, it was…

Also, go away.

Dear Bono: Sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up.

“So if your bank account isn’t as fat as your arteries, you might consider taking that Uber instead, which is a horrible sign of societal decline.”