You take that back.

6-3 shifts are how RX8 and S2000 guys pass trucks on the highway.

It’s not just a free-floating stick. If you pull the car out of any gear, it’ll snap to center with several pounds of force. Up/down for 3/4, left or right to the stop for 1/2 and 5/6 (or 5/R). Can’t really get lost unless you’re skipping gears.

The first few hundred times? Probably. At this point? A weary sigh and an eye roll. Global slaughter, not so much.

“18/3 Chiron” was a warmup project for the Veyron. It was a NA 18 cylinder, with 3 banks of 6 cylinders.

Same reason all those web pages listed the Veyron as having 987 hp. Bugatti rated it at “1001 hp” not because it produces that exact amount, but because every engine exceeds 1000 (probably by a couple dozen, which for that engine is just a rounding error). Literalists took 1001 PS and converted to HP, and quoted 987…

I don’t think you can put it in the “engineering disaster” category, since they weren’t flawed in design, and didn’t lead to anything bad happening...they’re just ugly. But people still bought something like 125k of them.

So the 2009 Maybach 62 is 90% of the 2015 S600 Maybach.

How about a bug bomb / fogger?

Try Windows Key + Left/Right arrow to snap windows to the left and right sides. Or WinSplit Revolution if you want to define regions and hotkeys to send things there.

I hung onto my 24" 1600x1200 for ages because I can't stand the "HD" x1080 ones that won't quite fit two docs side by side. Then I went to a 30" 2560x1600 and here's my advice: Window Key + Left/Right are your friend for sending applications to the sides of your monitor.

Seriously? There are tens of millions of cars of all kinds running around without ESP/ESC/etc and managing just fine. In years of driving my RWD coupe through snow, I’ve literally never found myself asking for electronic throttle interference. The idea that your commuter car is a deathtrap without it is beyond silly.

Direct injection ought to be good for an immediate 30 hp and 2 mpg. Wonder how hard it would be to add to the ancient block vs. a complete redesign.

RS (Audi), RS (Ford), RS (Renault), RS (Porsche), RS (Chevy)...

Why in the name of sweet swirling turbines would you be opposed to another TT V6 on the market, copy or not?

“Underfunded”? Has any underperforming government program or entity ever not been declared “underfunded”, regardless of how many billions are thrown at it?

Yep, hole size is not the same as block size. Another reason HP/L is meaningless outside of artificial displacement limits. HP/lb and HP*mpg should be what we're measuring.

If you really didn’t care about the horsepower, you’d just go buy a base Impreza. Power is what makes the rest of this car’s hardware worth having.

Dodge doesn't really do the small/big block thing, but the 6.2 Hemi would be a small block.

Because it’s there / because they can.