scootin159
Scootin159
scootin159

I also remember back in the day going to the computer department of a store, and me and my brother solving all the solitare games, sans one card, all at once. We would then quickly go from PC to PC hitting the final card as quick as we could - and you could clearly see the differences in processing power based on the

Why’s that? This is essentially what any longitudinal-engine mid-engine car does. The drive train of a Porsche Boxster will look very similar from underneath.

Is that 5pm South Korea time, or 5pm Best Korea time?

The water was nuts - all the drinking fountains were turned off (something about the tap water not being safe to drink), and then the $4 bottles of water started to run out around 4pm.

That’s what I was thinking - how “lemons-y” would it be to just reach your hand in the new port hole, undo the big end bolts (and remove whatever other free floating piston/rod pieces you could get out), cover the hole in duct tape to (attempt to) avoid oiling down the track, and go back out.

I live a town or two over from where it happened - it was a new (2014?) crew cab, short bed, F150. Just a plain half-ton truck, about as “domesticated” as they come. The HOA was trying to get it removed under the “commercial vehicle” clause.

The town that this HOA exists in has had numerous stories like this over the

Painting them not only makes them less flashy - it makes them significantly cheaper to mass produce. Granted that’s not a concern *right now* with this car, but if they plan on scaling up production it would be.

The reason it makes it cheaper to mass produce is that you don’t have to throw away all the “defective”

As much as I hate to say it, this is one spot oval racing really shines. You can easily see the entire track from a grandstand seat, you can sit relatively close to the cars, and it’s very easy to follow what’s going on.

Black and ground are electronically the same thing - there’s normally a very heavy gauge wire connecting the black terminal of the battery directly to the car’s frame. So in that sense, it really doesn’t make any functional difference which you do - both really do the same thing.

The reasoning behind the black to

Have an android phone? Get a bluetooth OBD-II + the “Torque” app, you’ll find it does exactly what you’re talking about

I wonder what kind of unforeseen performance differences will come from loosing the massive heat sink that aluminum wheels typically offer. Aluminum wheels can not only help keep the brakes cooler by absorbing some of their heat - but they also add thermal mass to the tires, helping keep tire core temperatures

It’s certainly no Prius, but when you’re traveling cross country with 7 people and their luggage (and often a trailer), it’s much better suited to the job than a Prius.

I did have a tune and LRR tires on mine to help fuel Econ, but I wouldn’t discount 20mpg as a good average number for highway-only travel. Even then it all comes down to what speed you travel at - I lost about 1mpg for every 5mph increase in travel speed.

Two modern applications of such a light I can think of:

It was a 6.0 diesel as you suspected. I got 16mpg towing (16x7 enclosed cargo trailer), or about 22mpg empty. I’ll admit that in that vehicle, I would consider my highway driving “gentle”, if not “grandfatherish” - and the trips I made were almost exclusively highway.

I’m always bothered when I drive across state lines and see the signs reading “all trucks must stop”.... what exactly does that apply to?

Does a class-8 truck, registered as an RV need to stop? What about a class A RV? What about a smaller class c or even a class b?

I used to get a kick out of when people saw my $200-300 fuel bills in the Excursion and were agape at “what it must cost to drive it”. It’s hard for people to understand that that $200-300 of fuel I just put in was going to last me nearly 1000 miles.

I don’t doubt that these flyers work - why else would they even bother with them. But I have to question - why on earth would you want your first dealing with a customer be a borderline scam? Car buyers are notoriously nervous that a dealership is going to rip them off. So what exactly triggers a buyer who comes in on

A few years ago I had a spat with a local dealership over some warranty work (or more so, their failure to honor the warranty they sold me). The spat ended with the owner of the dealership calling me at 4pm on a Friday and leaving a message that “I had to get my car off their lot by the end of the day, or they were

Did you get to take a tour of the original track - the one that went through downtown and started it all? It’s all still there, and is in remarkably original condition, right down to the partially gravel road and at-grade railroad crossing.