After a hard day of work north of the wall, I decided that instead of walking everywhere, I was gonna get myself an AWD Taurus... you know... ‘cause of all the snow and ice around where I live.

. My wife’s 2003 Civic has cost less to maintain in 12 years and 216K miles than my old BMW has cost me in the last 3 years and 20K miles.

I’m so glad! I couldn’t sleep last night because of this.

To be fair, the market is littered with the shattered dreams of people looking to sell in America. Those are just the success stories.

The Taurus was a big deal in the 80’s for Ford. They debuted a bunch of new stuff and engineering methods in it. Unfortunately, they didn’t keep up with it after it’s initial design, and it earned the not-so-great reputation that it had up until recently.

But which came first? The mind-numbingly boring driving appliance or the brain-dead simpleton driver?

Ditto. NEVER buy a Chinese made anything if your health and safety matter. Items like shoes and shirts are one thing, but food and cars from China are hazards. Doing enough business with mainland China and having close ties to other businessmen living there - Chinese products are health hazards. That ‘new car’ smell…

Then they said this about

I think part of the problem is the “brand equity” to many people when they think of the Taurus is they think of this vehicle, which was everyone’s first car that ran rough and was only appreciated when you added a C, an L, and an I to the Taurus name.

So a Ford Explorer?

It is always nice when deserving people get what is coming to them.

He’s not taking it well....

Douchè or not don’t fuck with another man’s ride PERIOD.

Introducing the 2017 LaLamborghini

That was a mega asshole move by Bergmeister. I remember some arguments that Bergmeister gave Magnussen a brake check and even if Magnussen had bumped him intentionally, nothing can justify Bergmeister driving him into a wall. Bumping often happens in GT racing, but this was way off.

On the rail gauge thing I think the US during the cold war had no plans to operate behind the Iron curtain in Eastern Europe and was just focusing on defending Western Europe.

The 325 ft/lbs is typo. It actually has 201ft/lbs. The M30 engine is a SOHC design that extends back to the late 60s. Lots of torque, some high end power, lots of valvetrain noise. I built a M30b35 to produce 210hp/180tq at the rear wheels which is pretty much the max you’ll get. The head design limits power, which is…

DING DING DING! Thank you! This makes a great deal of sense.