Ran into a situation once where that would've backfired - I once had someone "front end" me at a stop light. I pulled up behind them, they then realized they were too far into the intersection and put their vehicle into reverse, safely backed up 3-4 feet, and then failed to put it back into drive before trying to…

There's one in Syracuse, NY that's built from an old converted shopping mall. It has the following all available in the same building:

AUDI, BMW, Buick, Chevy, Chrystler, Dodge, FIAT, Ford, GMC, Hyundai, Jeep, Kia, Lexus, Lincoln, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Porsche, Scion, Toyota and VW.

They also have a large number…

I always thought David Hobbs was the color commentator, and Bob Varsha (er... Leigh Diffey) was the play-by-play guy (with Steve Matchett being a second color commentator). The difference between David and Steve was that David was the "driver's side" and Steve was the "engineer's side".

I did this two years ago. Sold my STI and bought a Fiat 500 Abarth and a Ford Excursion diesel.

that's intereeting - I was always under the impression that it was direct drive (1:1) into a differential (assumed 3:1 or something like that).

You're actually thinking of it backwards - it's stuck in high gear the whole time, but it just has enough torque at low RPM's that it doesn't need a gearbox. Really all adding a gearbox to that car would do is add weight and lower the wheel horsepower - it probably wouldn't increase acceleration or top speed one bit.

They'd have to dump the "electric only" mode if they were to do that though

Once properly trained and balanced mentally most dogs are perfectly fine. Our other dog has never destroyed anything that I can remember, other than maybe some food left out unattended. For the dog in the story though, we found this to be a savior while she was readjusting to living with us:

Once saw a deer run out in front of a large truck (I forget the details, but something class 8). Deer saw the truck at the last second and tried to reverse course - in doing so it slipped on the asphalt and went down much like a "low side" bike wreck. This was fortunate for it though, since that was right around the…

Shortly after adopting our pit mix, I took her with me while running some errands. I had left her in the car while going into the store (overcast day, windows down, etc) while strapped in using one of those harnesses. About 5-10 minutes later I saw her walking down the isle in the store.

She apparently freaked out…

Had a similar thing happen to me - except I was driving a 1980 VW Rabbit at the time. According to the reports of my parents (who were following me at the time), it just hurdled my car and continued on like nothing even happened. I never even saw the deer myself...

The state inspections can be a double-edged sword. Just a few months ago I saw an older lady driving with a very clearly flat tire. While sitting next to her at a stoplight I informed her of her tire's condition - to which she replied: "But it just passed inspection last month"

Have to think this is going to lead to many more windshield tearoffs between oil spit and carbon deposits that come out of the exhaust.

Bring your snowbrush into the house/office with you. That way when you get out to your car you can clean the snow off BEFORE you open the door. This prevents that annoying snow that was at the top of the door from falling in and landing on your seat when you open the door to grab your snow brush. An alternative is…

Serious question though: What about contractual requirements from sponsors to change branding from country to country (i.e. swapping "Vodaphone" with "Verizon" when racing in the United States)? I have to imagine that many of these contracts are already written up, and the sponsor's won't be happy that they can't…

The Syracuse airport is one of (and many years, the) snowiest airports in the country - yet despite that they take pride in essentially never closing down due to snowfall. They do have flights cancelled all the time, but it is because Boston / NYC / Chicago or wherever they're going is closed. Only time they ever…

All sorts of 'random' things - unmuffled Formula 500's, big-block Cobras and Lotus 7 clones are all good examples of ridiculously loud cars that you clearly can hear, but people just weren't paying attention.

While I haven't driven anything as flashy as that, I can tell you for certain driving anything with a racing clutch through a crowd is NOT fun. At least in this case people were generally paying attention to him (to say the least) - on the other hand I have a hard time getting people's attention despite having a…

He's been downgraded to "traffic"