I know it’s a lot easier for manufacturers to run the huge number of tests on automatics than on manuals and that’s a big part of why they don’t want to release manuals at all, but could they get around all of that by making the manual a dealer-installed post-purchase option? So, they could still include the ECU…

I was willing to deal with their 2.0T, but no leather, no sunroof, and a few other luxury features (some of which are available on Corollas and Civics) were not available on the manual. I honestly don’t know why they even offered it. Sticking with my old ATS 2.0T 6MT for the foreseeable future, unfortunately.

I dig it. A screaming car is a screaming car, be it a high-flowing ICE at redline or the crazy whine of seven electric motors. When you hear it, you know the thing is a beast!

It was also Backwards Compatible on Xbox 360, too. I totally get not buying a system just to play one game you may or may not like, but there’s got to be someone out there who might let you borrow a system and the game. Heck, if you happen to be somewhere near me, I would. I’ve got 3 360s and an OG just collecting…

I mean, it comes with a little canister. My assumption on how best to use it would be to take the cap off the canister, jam the diesel pump nozzle onto the adapter while it’s still in the canister, fill up, tap out as much as you can, put the nozzle with adapter back into the canister, squeeze the canister, pull the…

Honestly, the best antenna I’ve ever used is my current one (which I’ve been using for about 10 years now). I have a giant “100 mile” range antenna that I installed in my attic and pointed to a mid point between the two biggest channel providers in my area. That goes into a distribution amp and then runs to each room…

Honestly, the best antenna I’ve ever used is my current one (which I’ve been using for about 10 years now). I have a…

I’m not saying they’re good cars, but I did want to bestow a little bit of praise on the Blazer and Trailblazer (which, until recently, I didn’t even know were two different cars). That praise is their headlights! Nice and low at about the same height as a regular car, not up high like other SUVs, in line with a…

Yup. There was a six year period where my daily driver was an automatic (my wife said she wanted me to get an auto in case she ever needed to drive my car. She never dove it in those six years, so I dumped it) and several times a day I would instinctively slam down my left foot and reach for the stick when starting it…

I was starting to think I was some sort of weirdo because I don’t mind driving a manual in stop and go traffic. I hear it all the time from people “I wish I could own a manual, but I sit in a lot of traffic” and in my head I’m just thinking “So?” I guess to each their own. If driving a boring car bothers someone less…

This all just reminded me that Half-Life 2 came out in 2004, a time when single core processors were your only choice and the brand new 64-bit ones were a solution looking for a problem. Both nVidia and Intel were struggling against ATi and AMD, and Windows XP was only a couple of years old with legions of gamers…

Yup, PS4 controller is the one I did the side by side test with yesterday. My thumbs bump into each other if I leave them extended (they’re just touching at the neutral position). Another thing I’ve caught myself doing with the Dual Shock 4 is pulling my palms away from the controller so that my thumbs are fully…

OK, this one was bugging me because, now that I’m thinking about it, why do I find Xbox controllers to be more comfortable than Dual Shocks? I went and grabbed controllers and really paid attention and the reason was so obvious I can’t believe I never noticed this before!

I mean, yes, Microsoft/Peter Moore learned a ton from the Dreamcast, but I don’t think the analog stick placement was set in stone until the end of the Xbox’s development cycle. For a long time Xbox Dev Kits came with the Hammerhead FX controller to cover all its bases (D-Pad, two analog sticks that didn’t push in,…

Miata Is Almost The Answer!

If they want to charge $70 for a retail, physical copy, fine, I get it. The digital version better be at most $60. Publishers are constantly complaining that they lose millions of dollars because of the used market and piracy. Well, in the PC space the used market pretty much doesn’t exist anymore and there is WAY…

Given the heritage, I’m a lot more on board with it on the Mach-E, now. Thanks for pointing that out!

Really goes to show that “to each their own” still holds true. Just went through the configurator and I like every single color except for that GT-only blue. That blue has been everywhere for the past five years now and I’m just so sick of it! Maybe if I saw it in person...

Your Photoshop did a weird thing where it left on a bunch of extra doors. Here you go:

I would have been all over the G70 if they didn’t pair the manual version with mostly base-model features. No leather, no moonroof, and, most tragically, no twin-turbo V6.