Not necessarily - you're essentially placing a bet against the dealership on what the car will be worth in 3 years/36,000 miles (or whatever the terms of your lease are). Leasing is basically just financing the expected depreciation on the vehicle in that timeframe. If it depreciates quicker than the dealer…

Agreed - I'd probably make them a bit more / \ shaped personally, and with larger wheel stops (likely just doubled 2x4's) - but yeah, the principle looks great. I also like the fact that if they failed, there would likely be a lot more cracking sounds and perhaps a "staged release" - rather than a quick "ping" and…

I've done this before, but with a key difference. It was a non-critical part - something that the car ran perfectly fine without, but was making it less than perfect. It was also something that was easily diagnosed, and I did include the replacement part, I just hadn't yet had the desire to spend an afternoon…

The Thousand Islands Bridge (connecting northern NY to Ontario over the St. Lawrence) might not be all that bad... but when you add in it's height and norrowness, and try crossing it on a windy day with freezing rain and a mammoth 11,000#, 13' tall, 8.5' wide trailer hooked to your bumper... (and let's not forget you…

That's actually a really good deal. I was shopping for essentially exactly this truck a year ago, and couldn't find anything reasonably clean for less than $12k in-state. The 7.3 is a great motor if reliability is your first concern - arguably more reliable than any of it's successors.

You misread that... he means he literally went 75k miles in 3 years spent in the car. In real time that may have taken a decade or more, but if he actually spent 3 years (~26,280 hrs) in the car, that works out to an average speed of slightly less than 2.9mph.

Was gonna say, I'm pretty sure I have a set of tires in the basement that have cords showing marked with 20 heat cycles. At 3 runs per heat cycle, about 1 mile a run, that equates to what, 60 miles?

SCCA requires a minimum of 4 wheels in all classes :-\

I can't remember if my 944 (87 n/a) ran both fans without the A/C on. I know 90% of the time only the one fan ran, and the second ran with the A/C. I'm not sure if there was an override to kick on the second fan at temperature or not though.

I agree. It lets the automakers advertise their good MPG ratings (and make the EPA/CAFE guys happy), but also let's the automakers do all the fun stuff they can with the ECU to make the car fun to drive (at the cost of MPG's).

Then again, my only experience with such a button is in the Fiat Abarth, which shares a lot…

What's the current limitations of those induction charging mats? Could they be realalistically scaled up to the point that you just have a 4x4' sized "pad" that you park on top of, and the car then charges from that?

Especially when you figure that $41k car is a pure-electric car. A Nissan Leaf, which is probably the best comparable car built using "traditional means", is about $5-6k less. That $5-6k could also be largely explained away with the BMW badge on the front

The OG:

No, it just doesn't count, since they're not trying to pass off a fake exhaust tip as the real thing. If the center quad pipes ended 6" inboard however... then yes, it would be.

No, it just doesn't count, since what we're seeing is actually connected to the exhaust system.

Fiat 500 Abarth 28/34mpg. Sure there may be cars with more hp/mpg than this, but few cars as fun.

VW New Beetle Convertible w/ 1.8T and a manual transmission. Not sure how rare it is... but I can tell you that buying a 4 passenger "chick car" with a convertible top (4 pass convertible = rare) in a rare color with an optional engine.... with a manual transmission? Yeah, took me a long time to find one for my…

Do you live in California? Fiat only sells them out of their California dealerships - and even then, only out of a select few of those in the larger cities.

inboard brakes have their own set of issues - things like added wear & tear on axle components, how axle failure means brake failure, and having all that heat right up next to the differential (with minimal cooling air) are why nearly all cars use outboard brakes.

What you're describing isn't that different from drum brakes... If made wider (think "deep dish" drums), you could certainly get enough friction surface to work well. The problem is that you're going to be giving up modulation ability due to the reduced torque arm that the tire will have on the friction surface. …