UCLA student here: the school swapped about half its busses for electric ones this year. Given that the school’s main route is just loops of a 3 mile ring road with stops every few hundred yards, anything with regenerative braking seems like an obvious choice. Their quietness and lack of fumes is much appreciated when…

I once helped out around a farm that had a right hand drive Suzuki kei truck for for lugging around hay bales. This was in the winter in Idaho. In case you’re wondering, yes, you can most definitely drift a kei truck in the snow

From the pictures, you can tell both front axles steer. We also seem to have decided it’s got a motorcycle engine. I’m thinking this means the single rear wheel is being driven, likely using most of the original donor bike’s drive train. There’s probably an awkwardly designed shifter extension next to the driver’s…

For some reason I expected a serious response, then realized I’ve read enough of your articles to know better!

Can someone actually do this? Please? Just to screw with all the commenters who don’t know a radial from a rotary. And because of the sheer irony of putting an R-670 with a 2400rpm redline in an RX8.

This. I already can’t count how many times I’ve driven home with cruise control set five under the limit in front of some soccer mom who thought it’d be cool to order the blacked out grill on her dolled up minivan.

I must’ve made this mistake three or four times the first week I drove stick. Just glad it was a leased car, because I don’t even want to think of what my panicked 4k clutch dumps in third must’ve done to the drive train. Then there was the time I tried to smoothly pull away from a particularly attractive parking…

It’s a first gen R8. I’m sure he just read one of Tavarish’s articles and bought it for less than the cardboard used to make Jason’s knockoff. Reputation for frugal responsibility still intact.

And goddamit why am I grey again?? Grr...

I feel just a little irony in a Boeing and an Airbus being the first two planes to land on China’s shiny, new, “Western Hegemony threatening” island.

My current winner: 2011 or similar year Toyota Camry.

There are lots of training scenarios where small, nimble aircraft with minimal to nonexistent BVR weapons systems can give just about any modern fighter a run for its money. We originally discovered that in Vietnam, and I believe the air has verified it a number of times doing drills against T-38s. Not saying an A-4…

Oh and would someone mind un-graying me? Thanks!

I’m feeling like the German cars aren’t getting enough love here. Anyone tried doing basic maintenance on a BMW lately? Like spending 3 hours with the car up on jacks to replace HEADLAMP BULBS? Don’t get me wrong, my e90 328 is my baby, and I wouldn’t trade that inline 6 for the world, but damn can it be a PITA to fix.