Audi B2/Typ89 Chassis (4000 Quattro), 016 Gearbox clutch slave cylinder. Held in by a roll pin on a 90-degree axis to the bolts, impossible to remove with any age/rust on it without removing the gearbox itself. It’s why Audi guys always replace the slave cylinder when doing a clutch change on an 016. May also apply…

I must respectfully disagree. Having lived in both Ontario (mandatory re-certification each time a vehicle is sold) and Quebec (no vehicle certifications), the latter doesn’t lead to any appreciable increase in vehicular accidents caused by vehicle equipment failure. 99.99% of all road accidents are still caused by…

“There’s a lot of conflicting information about the swirl’s value as a bird-strike prevention mechanism.”

“The Dodge Demon will be the most advanced Dodge ever” is like saying “The Porterhouse will be the most advanced Steak ever.”

Mr. George, I faced the same decision you did about 2 years ago, and played it safe. Instead of the 2010 Mini Cooper S I really wanted, I bought a 2010 VW GTI, figuring that it would be the more reliable hot-hatch. I also figured it would be a lot more reliable than the 2004 RX-8 I was trading in.

All V70Rs in that body style are, unless they’ve had their propshaft removed due to centre bearing failure. Cheers from a fellow Canadian!

“I was...replaced.”

First Gear: If I’m reading between the lines correctly, this is an epic failure on Honda’s part. They took an existing platform that was already electric drive, only had to change the power supply from a hydrogen storage tank and fuel cell to a battery pack, and couldn’t make it perform competitively for $35 grand? …

Sigh...another goddamned iPad glued to the dashboard? Really?

When you sign up for the Team O’Neil Rally School, they recommend that you spend the month before arriving at the school stopping with your left foot, in order to build muscle memory for something more than just mashing a clutch pedal. It works. The first week your left calf muscle will be very sore. By the third…

This is an old-school trick to free up sticky automatic adjusters and pivots in drum brakes. Backing up quickly and applying the brakes reverses the normal loading on the brakes. It has zero effect on disc brakes.

Walt Longmire approves.

Can’t believe you totally missed the most important reason to buy this one...does it get any cooler than white on burgundy leather?

I cannot agree more. If we want safer roads and less congestion, the solution isn’t more technology that takes the responsibility of driving away from the driver. The solution is better drivers, and that means making it much more difficult to get a driver’s licence, and much better mandatory driver education. Right…

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“Priced to keep,” as my friend often says.

Tom, I’d love to have one of these, and as an ex-mechanic with a background in european cars, the cost of ownership shouldn’t be extreme, but I have two major worries. First is the availability of parts, which you touched on briefly in your article. What would have been useful to know is how much NOS was…

This is Russia, right? Where’s the dash cam POV footage of this?

I don’t really remember the composition of the parking lot. What I remember most was being the first of my friends to have wheels. At barely 17 years old, my Mother bought a new Jeep Grand Cherokee, and handed me the keys to her 9-year-old Ford Tempo. Beige-on-beige. I was mocked incessantly by the other kids at…

“Harris initially tried to argue that he had forgotten the child,”