I’ll bet dollars to donuts that there’s a plan in place to reduce the total # of workers worldwide, and to eliminate a bunch of the planned Cap-Ex that Ford was going to be needing to keep up with projected growth back in early 2017. Remember, as well, that the majority of Ford’s American plants have been retooled to…

Damn, homie. You’re on point today! Must be a slow Friday.

...can’t tell if serious, which in and of itself is disheartening.

You know, the powers that be won’t let a little thing like death figures get in the way of additional regulation / controls / bans.

I fear you might have missed the point I was trying to make, when I mentioned that getting a Kit car registered was relatively straightforward. I was not looking to imply that kit cars were inferior to the cars they are/were modeled after. I was looking to highlight that building a kit car version of a historical race…

You can actually get away with a lot in the US, as far as kit cars are concerned. The trick is that the laws generally prohibit complete commercial manufacture of said cars. Look at the various Fauxbras, Ford GTforgeries, and other vehicles from facroty 5 or similar. There’s also Exoset, the Goblin, and various other…

I’m surprisingly okay with this.

For the Brazillian market, there’s a little bit of unintended balance, in that they have much lower emissions regulations, and a much higher focus on initial purchase cost. Because of this, I would imagine the majority of the cars being sold there are going to be port injected (I work in the off highway diesel world,…

What car have you tried to sell, that takes a value hit for being a manual? Honest question here.

Man, unless you’re trying to weigh fabricating a part vs. buying it, I can’t strongly enough emphasize how much you should not try to value the labor cost on a project. To do so is to go out and buy something Cheap(ish) and new(ish) and misses the point of working on a project.

Yes. One would hope going from 93Oct AKI (98RON) to 91Oct AKI (95RON) would, in fact, result in a cost reduction. I’ll keep my 93/98 for the fun car, and 87AKI for the cheap car, thanks.

When talking about that new Navigator, you can say that about a hell of a lot more than just the Escalade. That whole truck is astonishingly good, and the interior is one of the best I’ve seen.

Please, the ‘must out handle and out hustle BMW’ directive has been number one on Cadillac’s list since the advent of the first generation CTS. That tree has just been bearing more fruit of late because it’s had sufficient time to mature.

...and while there’s some truth to this, it still doesn’t account for the fact that capacitive controls on things besides the touch screen are the answer to a question literally no one was asking. Still, I guess the only knob in the Cadillac interior design studio is the one holding the pen.

The irony here is that while somewhat plastic-y, this interior would be infinitely nicer to live with day to day than any of the current crop. Actual goddamn buttons. Is this really that difficult?!

While he seems like an alright guy, with enough quirkiness to stay interesting, I’d agree with AKA Myke below. Dude absolutely has a ‘punch me’ face*.

Haha, it most certainly didn’t come from the factory that way (though most of the components in the fuel system WERE alcohol tolerant from the factory). I converted the thing to Flex fuel to take advantage of the increased Octane and higher latent heat of vaporization. Again, for high boost applications, alcohol is…

Therein lies the problem. Most of the crap in premium gas,advertised as the new hotness(tm), is just some combination of alcohol and stabilizers to deal with the aforementioned alcohol. That stuff is not so much added as a bonus, as it is required to increase the fuel’s knock resistance. Let me put it to you this way.…

Seriously. With ethanol, you’re best served with either all or none. Engines set up to run it (I.E. the high boost variety) do significantly better with it, particularly in regards to Charge temps under heavy boost and timing at mid-load.