A vehicle equipped with a transfer case which requires the user to manually engage the locks to power additional wheels is a fundamentally different experience than living with a modern four wheel drive vehicle like a Subaru that always powers all four wheels.

There are too many different ways to split power between…

The torque split between the axles is set by the reduction/pinion gear, which is not adjustable. Yes, playing with the manual settings has an impact on torque split as any mechanism which messes with differential output shaft speeds does, but not at all in the way you think it does. Unless you have DCCD manually set…

It’s not adjustable front to back in the sense that you’re directly selecting a specific torque split.  DCCD in effect is a fancy, adjustable transfer case by way of selectable static lock ratios.  A good way to think of it is if you select 100% lock in DCCD you’ve effectively welded the center differential, or have…

THANK YOU.  This is a classic example of enthusiasts splitting hairs and making an idea more complicated than it needs to be.  Even the dude at Engineering Explained completely mucked this one up.

This article is several years old and I’ve probably read it several times now as I do my standard “what sports car do I buy?” run of auto searches, but I have to say your line...

It isn't selling because it's an ugly car. If it drives better than a Mustang not one buyer will be able to tell on the five minute test drive, but it doesn't take more than a glance to see that the Mustang is a beautiful car and the Camaro is not. 

Just buy the car you actually want, a Corvette. I’ve had RX-7s so I’ve seen this conversation okay out a thousand times. While I would rather see an old car on the road under power from whatever the owner wants to have under the hood, so much of the character and charm of the car comes from the engine. Few cars do…

A lowered SUV is a station wagon by another name.

So sad.  We need more Porsche competitors in the US because I just don’t trust Porsche engines and want some options.

*Exactly* this. Rossi consistently shoves into places where if the other guy doesn’t give he’s going to wreck them both.

I believe he’ll win a championship at some point, but like Paul Tracy at best he may only take one.... which is sad because with his talent for getting so much performance out of these cars he should…

I didn’t say he was slow. I said he lacked the talent to drive near others without hitting them. His record would be far less impressive if the drivers he’s run wide and off the track at corner exit during a poorly executed overtake had held their ground and allowed him to wreck instead of preserving their own cars…

You say Rossi is not afraid to rub wheels, and I say he lacks the talent to drive near another competitor without running them off the track or hitting them.  

Spec Ops: The Line

How much time have you spent with this car?  I had an '02 WRX and an '04 STi, and it didn't take long for me to not care. Not having a center arm rest is way better than having one that gets in the way. 

He absolutely ran out of skill. Rossi had a right to his line, but so did Wilkins. Rossi tried to run the tighter inside line that he couldn’t hold at the speed he was moving. Losing control of your car is a sign that a driver ran out of skill.

Ahhh yes, the Ricky Bobby school of racing. If you’re not first, you’re last. Rossi had a right to his line, he had solid overlap at turn in. But Rossi also had a responsibility to HOLD his line. Rossi ran out of skill and took out the race leader in the process. The move may or may not have been dumb, but that…

I’m sorry that this is still actually a painful thing that still has to be fought through. It makes me feel sad and angry and other number of difficult to describe emotions when I see how Americans treat people this way for whatever shallow and pathetic reason you may wish to highlight.

The dialogue feels very much like anything written in Japanese and then translated to English. So I don’t know if “ham-fisted” is the right word, it just feels like there’s a rigidity to Japanese that doesn’t translate smoothly to English. Not that this is necessarily a bad thing, it just is what it is. A lot of…

I don’t know how many here have seen one out in the wild, but it also has a street presence that can’t be touched by anything short of a Viper. This may or may not be appealing to you, but it is something.

Hi. White dude here. Please cast Idris Elba as James Bond.