I personally like "an angry transformer smoking four cigarettes."

Money is not "money." Sometimes money is A LOT more money.

I'm personally hoping that figure skating competitions be done in the middle of a hockey game, just to make it more interesting.

I remember seeing posters of battered kids that were used to raise awareness to and hopefully curb abuse. Or, if we believe internet logic, maybe since they had a picture of a battered kid, they were pro-battered kids.

If I'm running that late, I wouldn't bother shampooing at all. It's not like your hair needs it every day.

No. You are the only one who is not familiar with "flatware."

Additionally, coast before stops/turns. Every time you brake (unless it's a hybrid), you throw energy away. Thus, when you see brake lights ahead, let off the gas. Stop lights can be timed so that when you get there, you are ready to go. This technique can improve mileage by up to 10% and dramatically increase brake…

More important than not financing is keeping the vehicle as long as possible so that the purchase costs (principle & interest) are amoritized over as long a period as possible. For example, buying a $3ok car and keeping it for 20 yr effectively costs you $1500k/yr, but buying a $10k car and keeping it only 5 yr…

Let's do the math again:

In my state, it is legal for a cyclist to occupy an entire lane if that lane is less than 14 ft wide or if it is unsafe for a car & bike to share it. The vast majority of lanes are narrower than that. However, the law doesn't mean much if drivers don't know it.

Living near work is key. A person's commute is typically the single largest component to how much they drive.

They are taking the facebook & microsoft approach of taking things that aren't broken and f*cking them up until they are.

Ford trucks for decades had a minimalist three knob setup that used "MAX" as identical to AC+recirculate. In those vehicles, there is no way to turn on recirculate without also turning on the AC compressor. I hate those systems because I need recirculate at times when the AC is not on.

Not every culture associates "green" with the environment like the US does. In Japan, it's blue. (I wouldn't be suprised if it relates to the clear sky or open ocean water). They probably wish we'd stop with the whole green is the new blue nonsense.

Mega-hyper-super-turbo-charged.

Rule of thumb: You never get more than you pay for.

"Shouldn't highway mpg be better than city mpg? Am I missing something?"

This whole conversation is very disappointing.
A few observations:
- The US & Europe have very different development histories and infrastructure. Many European cities are older than cars and frankly are not built for them. The opposite is true in the US. That makes a big difference in how people get around and how they…

There is a perhaps more significant reason - business lobbying. High speed train routes have been proposed many times, but airline companies threaten to pull service if they are built. They don't want the competition, and that affects policy decisions.

As an RX-8 owner, I've give you my take: