Lots of people are employed digging up coal, drilling for oil, and drilling for natural gas. That doesn’t mean we should keep doing it.

Judging an article — any article — on its headline and thinking you’ve got enough information to make these sorts of suppositions makes you nothing short of an asshole.

The fact that this anecdote ended with “he was out of gas and couldn’t see the highway” rather than “careened into a bus full of disabled orphans and exploded in a hellish conflagration” I think is what surprised me most.

Software QA folks get fired up about software. I regularly shout things like “how did this ever get pushed to prod” at my screen. Because of iTunes more than once, incidentally.

GET THIS PERSON A CIGAR.

Someday, when I’m rich and can afford to insulate and heat my garage, I’ll have winter project cars. Right now, my winter project is keeping my snowblower tip-top so I don’t have to die from overexertion shoveling my driveway.

I’m still confused why these aren’t hybrids. Mail delivery is a perfect use case for regenerative braking.

Does that Transit 350 get that mileage under that duty cycle? I’ll bet it doesn’t.

That’s the kind of mileage my ‘13 Legacy 3.6R gets. A few less horsepower, sure, but also before Subaru went on their lightening, engine efficiency, and CVT rip. It’s made of steel, has an E-series (though the EZ is very different from the EJ) engine, and a conventional auto with only five speeds. It also has a 45:55…

Well, luckily my headliner isn’t falling. Yet. Just the fabric on the pillars. I would like to glue what I have back on if at all possible, but we’ll see.

The satin coating on parts of my center console is doing something like that. It’s almost as if they didn’t design the parts to last very long…

It’s not dumb if it works, right?

Oh, is that what it was? I don’t recall running across anything like that in my E46 while rooting around inside doors or under any panels, but that doesn’t mean it’s not there.

THERE’S A 3M ADHESIVE SPECIFICALLY FOR AFFIXING HEADLINERS?!

The key-in-door thing is so old-hat now that some engineers have forgotten about it. If you use the remote to lock my car and the key to unlock it, the alarm will go off!

You can still get a surprising number of vehicles with rear drums. Also, you’re right that discs are easier to service and work better, but drums really aren’t that bad and they tend to last quite a long time. Most of the cars I’ve had haven’t needed actual rear drum service beyond lubrication inside 80k.

*vampire hiss*

BMW and VAG would like a word about sagging headliners and fabric glued to trim pieces. Their excuse was that they used low VOC, environmentally friendly adhesives that hugged trees and Mother Nature. My E46’s everything is coming off. Further, I’m completely convinced this was what caused the famous E46 scent and the…

You’re right! I’m a damned, dirty liar!

I like how they replaced the MPG gauge under the tach on M cars with an oil pressure gauge. Let’s be real here. What’s really more important? :-p