Huh, and here I thought it was all of the rum I put in it that would get me.

I’m fairly certain that Don Cherry died several years ago and has been replaced with an AI that was forced to watch 7000 hours of hockey coverage and then unleashed upon the world to communicate.

Even though it is crashing, the Brat does make me smile more than it should.

I know it’s an optical illusion due to the graph, but it really does look like RPMs fall backward a bit as torque peaks.

It’s wearing a diaper.

.... the engine cover has a cover. The hell.

See also: Cabin air filters. Only because I find way more random stuff I thought was gone forever by cleaning out the glove box than I really should.

I traded that thing in with almost 200,000 miles on it. The doors were dinged up and the driver’s side one was falling off. Both door handles broke off in the cold. The bumper had a cut-out with a box cutter after the exhaust melted it after ramping the damn thing off a hill, and many more things from the terrible…

Aren’t you just adorable.

Not gonna lie, I’d try melted cheese on pop tarts. It would be terrible, and I’d regret it, but I’d still try it.

Attempt to inertia drift a Toyota Tercel with stock steelies and tires. More than once. The tires fell off the wheels each time. Thankfully replacements only cost $45.

To be fair, my initial question was if anyone else was getting annoyed, and I suppose the answer is not everyone, which isn’t a bad thing.

Even if so, there are other options besides saying “holy grail” over and over, placing it in quotes each time. Revolutionary, innovative, or just denoting Skyactiv-X all work.

That’s what I was thinking as well, but it became more effort than it was worth (and more than many of those articles took) to verify. I need that time to yell at clouds.

Now that I look, not entirely sure where it came from. Almost every article about the engine published in October of 2017 has some variant of the line “to develop an engine which ignites gasoline using combustion ignition technology, a fuel-saving process considered something of a holy grail of efficient gasoline…

Anyone else getting annoyed at it being called the “’Holy Grail’ Skyactive-X engine”? I get that’s how it is in the marketing material, but does “Holy Grail” always have to be appended before it? Maybe I just didn’t get enough sleep last night. Or I’m old. Probably both.

It bugs me more than it should that there is so much bullshit going on right now, that two weeks ago feels like an eternity already.

It’s like someone saw a Chrysler Sebring and thought “Whoa, whoa, whoa. Let’s tone it down there, hot shot.”

I’m hoping the plates or VIN were legible enough to find which owners to contact and tell them. Otherwise said person may come back from the Bahamas to wander around A lot for hours trying to find their car which has since been removed.

Another thing at least Ford’s website does, that I had to learn the hard way, is not include taxes or any fees on lease payments. The actual payment ended up being about $80 / month higher than what was on website.