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Banning heavier vehicles doesn't have to be an absolute. As you say, not everything can be delivered sensibly without allowing trucks in some places or at some times. At least as our cities currently exist, anyway, and we're not talking about massive changes in infrastructure. (An economist would point out that we…

I'm an engineer for a large automaker. We have reps from the legal department tell us this stuff all the time. The real problem is the legal system in the US and fear of litigation that prevents us from saying these things.

Unless you are in the legal department at GM or a decision maker, you shouldn't be stating whether or not something is a lawsuit. Having worked in automotive, you'd be surprised how many things can be a "lawsuit". Hell I made a self-extinguishing fabric for use in automotive interiors to pass a fire standard.…

I totally agree. Mainly because so many people like to touch their brakes in a repetitive manner (esp during stop-and-go traffic), so I can't tell if they are stopping or trying to get over, as I am mainly looking at the road in front of me.

Yes Please! Amber Lights should be mandatory on all four corners! That and I would use them on a BMW, especially a "roundie" 02!

God knows this is the reason why I started doing the laundry back in the 90s:

Look, I'm not going to get into the entire "end of ICE" thing, but my last daily driver was a 14 year old Honda Civic that my parents had bought new, 325k miles on the clock by the time it left my hands. I used this thing for several years, from high school through college and then my first job(which involved a 60…

You drive a BMW and were in the right lane? I call BS ;)

I believe the correct term is "asshat".

Finally! That was a lot of scrolling to finally see the only Porsche I care about other than the 959. I'm going to go massage my carpal tunnel now.

Part of it is FCA's fault actually. A few years back, pre-bailout Chrysler was in cahoots with Nissan to build the new Titan on the Ram chassis. Actually the Titan was supposed to be near entirely designed and built by Chrysler. Then the bailout happened, FIAT stepped in and told Nissan to kick rocks. That sent…

Ahem, just chop the middle 2' off the Panamera and what's left is shockingly gorgeous.

For me it is far and away the RS Spyder. What cemented it for me was an overall 1-2 beating the Audi R10 at my home race of Mid-Ohio in 2007 when I was a kid, the car was so unbelievably dominant for three straight years in the ALMS

Exactly. That energy to convert the sea water to fuel has to come from somewhere, in this case a nuclear reactor. If the energy came from, for example, a coal fired power plant, it would no longer be carbon neutral. It is just another interesting way to convert and store energy that is very convenient when you have…

You've left out the part where it takes more energy to produce this "sea-gas" than you can get out of it. This would never work for real-world uses outside of an aircraft carrier using it to create fuel for the planes that are aboard.

Around 2005-2006 I was working at a company that supplied parts to, amongst others, tier 1 automotive suppliers. I was on the phone with a customer and hear one of the salesman behind me getting pretty testy with someone he was on the phone with.