“However, those numbers are greatly reduced from last year — down 57%.” Close enough. Guessing that’s no worse than the pre-covid weekday airport crowd.

It’s all about risk tolerance, and everyone’s is different. There are people who haven’t left their homes for months, and those who won’t wear a mask if they aren’t forced to. Not everyone lives within driving distance of their families or gets to see them outside of holidays. I haven’t seen mine in a year. Getting…

While no one likes to be taxed extra, a per mile tax instead of a per gallon tax is a logical idea. Those who drive more, cause more damage to the roads. Make the rate increase as your vehicles weight increases, so vehicles which put the most wear on the road are paying the most, like semi trucks. This will…

Starting with the most important part right off the bat in case you don’t read this whole novel. To the beginners out there, most things will look overwhelming at first. That’s ok - all you need to do is focus on completing one step at a time. Pretty soon that timing belt will look like a cake walk. Do not take…

Biggest one is using the right tools. Sure, it costs money, but it’s so much easier to use the right tool for the job. Who doesn’t like buying tools anyways?

Winter wipers, top up the washer fluid, throw some lock deicer in the glove box, and off we go. That’s it.

I didn’t really get it either until I went on one. Cruises are for people who want to pick their destinations, a few activities, and then plan/pay for nothing else. Once you’re on the boat, your work is done. For the people we saw with young kids, it looked pretty easy to drop them off at the child center or whatever…

Sure, that’s the sentiment today, but you never know what possibilities future tech might unlock. The aircraft age didn’t start until the 1920's, yet people walked on the damn moon just 50 years later. It may seem impossible to solve hydrogen scalability today, but that’s just a limitation of today’s technology.

I don’t see it that way. It’s hard to predict what’s going to happen with emerging tech like hydrogen. That’s why R&D is so important. Not every project will work out; all you can hope for is that a few successes will outweigh the cost of the failures. Hell, you may even create something useful by accident, like how pe…

The patent has been expired for 38 years.

This is awesome! Guessing the reason they’re used in fuel tanks is to there’s no room for air tools, and to avoid the spark risk of an electric impact? Sounds like you made out big time - the cheapest swench on eBay is $350.

Wow, that guy is a talented driver. Notice how he adjusts the drift on entry to fine tune the speed, then at the apex, settles the car and smoothly accelerates away.

Yeah, forget that LC. It’s an old mans car.

Welcome! Always good to see some new people bring some new perspective! Now, onto the important shit - what’s your dream car?

Big Oil has said this every decade for the last 50 years.

This old footage is incredible! Glad you’re back and keep it coming!

Has Maserati’s reliability gotten any better?

Yeah it is pretty incredible what big money can get you.

Nothing to see here. Trade the auto industry with every every other industry and its the same story. Gov wants to impose regulations that will cost the industry money. The industry complains and fights back with self-funded studies and PR in an attempt sway the consumer’s opinion in their favor. Sometimes it works,…

Keeping that era of Audi’s well maintained is not easy. Source - had an 02 A4 that became more trouble than it was worth around 230k miles.