It’s kinda funny how lauded German engineering is, but how horrible the reputation for reliability is amongst VAG, BMW, and MB. There’s some serious cognitive dissonance going on there.

Phones use piezo-electric speakers that have incredibly good high frequency response just by the physical nature of the things. You’d actually have to spend a lot of money to engineer one that isn’t capable of producing sounds you can’t hear. At that point it just makes sense to carry capability you don’t need rather…

If that response was too rough for you, I can understand why you’d be afraid your neighbors find out that you formally complained about something you’ve previously complained to them about.

A statistical anomaly is hardly a reason to rewrite the statistics. If anything, it’s the “X year” nomenclature that needs to change. What they’ve done is they’ve taken the statistical probability of that amount of rainfall occurring on any given year (the sigma value) and converted that into the number of years it…

Glad to hear he made it road-legal because it definitely wasn’t in this video.

For the most part the bulk of the experience is over after 8-10 hours, but there are definitely lingering effects that continue for at least another 8-12 hours. A lot of the times, they get over-shadowed by the effects of sleep deprivation, but if you can suppress those or even get a little nap in half way through,…

I have two danes and they plop into the back of my wife’s 2-door civic no problem. Hell, I’ve taken one of them for a ride in my z3.

90 down I-35 in general is basically no problem as long as you aren’t weaving. Except for Temple. Just don’t speed going through Temple. Ticketing must be big business there.

IT’S CALLED A SHOOT-CHUTE YOU FUCKING HEATHEN.

Yeah, but in this case it really does seem like they just saw “Dana” and jumped to the conclusion that it would have solid axles despite the fact that Dana already sells independent setups to Ford.

No weirder than me being attracted to the star wars figures.

Mainly because you’re on a website for people that like driving.

I don’t think you need it, but I always found the best way to break electricity was by sticking a fork in the outlet.

SO NOW YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH BROWN ROBOTS AND COLORBLIND PEOPLE?!?! God you’re what’s wrong with this country. Welcome to Trump’s America, I guess.

First I bought a car with a carb. Then I realized I’m realllly not good at tuning a carb. Getting that thing inspected was always a struggle. Couple that with the fact that I live in a mountainous area and I’m pretty sure I was single-handedly responsible for a non-negligible percentage of the air pollution where I…

A lot of the people that were singing the praises of the GT-86 prior to its launch had ridiculously unrealistic pricing expectations likely because of a lack of understanding of inflation. To these people, the fact that it costs more than 25k was a deal breaker. The same people are also probably unaware that a base…

Are you saying those robots aren’t people because they’re brown? That’s racist.

Fuel injection really did great things for cars. There’s a good possibility that this person just has no idea how to tune their carburetor and has no idea how to tell that they need to. Where I live, a poorly tuned carb would cause you to fail emissions testing (ask me how I know) and ANY car made after 1962 is…

If you want to pointlessly (demonstrably) warm up your car for 2 minutes, 5 minutes, 10 minutes, whatever, that’s fine. Hell, do it for 30 minutes and the moving components (the ones you no doubt care about) STILL won’t be anywhere near running temperature precisely because moving is what makes them hot to begin with.…

I disagree with there being any benefit at all to the transmission by idling the car for a few minutes. It’s a 100+ pound bulk of metal. There’s just too much thermal capacitance to warm up the transmission in any appreciable way without sitting there at idle for half an hour or more. Your argument is turning into “hey…