I’m surprisingly okay with this thing so far.

Cool tips to commit theft, fraud, assault, and get flowers only by committing a murder! Wow!

What vehicles are designed for 85? I don’t think I’ve run across a single one that didn’t require 87 or better. Sure, I don’t know every vehicle on the road, but I’d think I’d at least have heard of one.

Jeeze. What are we supposed to put in our whiney European engines that need 91?

That warranty for the XBox probably started the day the original buyer got it, not the day the new buyer bought it. I’m glad Microsoft fixed it. I half expected them to tell them that the warranty wasn’t transferable.

I don’t know why it occurred to me only just now, but do AWD EV’s get pissed off about tires of differing rolling diameter like ICE ones do? The front and rear “axles” are totally independent, so I’d imagine they’re probably don’t care. That’d be great. Having to junk three perfectly good tires because one got trashed…

That would be entertaining as hell!

I agree that vent is badly placed and wrong, but under-seat vents aren’t new and have been swallowing objects since time immemorial. If you want another bad example (from BMW!), I learned that the under-seat vents in the E46 are the exact right size to swallow a cell phone roughly the dimensions of an iPhone 4 like…

Are you sure the blood streaming from your eyes isn’t affecting your vision?

You would have thought that Rich Corinthian Leather™ was the height of luxury, but that right there might be it.

I don’t know about being the best, but those are definitely good. I rented a car that turned out to be a top shelf one of these a couple years ago and drove it back and forth from Vancouver and various places in northern Washington. Probably about 1200mi altogether. Thing was pretty comfortable, held our crap well,…

You’ve definitely got a funky one. It’s true that I’m not an authority, but the nine CVT equipped Subarus I’ve driven from ‘13 up to ‘19 seem like a reasonable sample size on the most general behavior of them. None of them did that.

That gearbox is pure magic. Unless you let Chrysler program it.

V12 Mercedes: I looked at parts for those once. Ran screaming.

Strange, this sounds exactly like what Steve Lehto has been saying about RV’s for years. It sounds like the pandemic has only given them another excuse to suck.

I would hope they’d bring back the Prelude, but I’m not sure it fits into Honda’s current market spread very well. Besides, given the physics size of current models, I’d worry whatever they’d make would be huge. I mean, you can practically land a fighter jet on the roof of an Accord now.

Sounds like it was broken. I’ve got plenty of Subaru’s in my driveway and nearby, most of them with those CVT’s. They don’t feel odd under braking at all.

Maybe, but does anybody else do this? I’d imagine it’d be pretty easy to show that this is standard industry practice because you can’t run the EGR system outside such a narrow range of conditions. I’m inclined to think that if you asked Toyota or GM or anybody else if they do this with their EGR’s, they’d probably…

I enjoyed my Dodge Grand Caravan while I had it. I sorely miss it, in fact. Trouble is, it seems like you can’t get a minivan for reasonable money anymore.

A large percentage of engines meter air with absolute pressure sensors. If the engine isn’t running, it’s relatively easy to infer altitude based on atmospheric pressure.