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Stop, you're going to make everyone cry... *sniffle*

Does this camera track Fuel points?

Anthony Bourdain?!

Formula... Understeer?

Case in point: on Friday morning, I hit a construction barrel. Seriously. I'm cruising along, driving at a normal pace, when a guy in a Chevy Silverado with New Jersey plates – their drivers are the worst – pulls out in front of me and begins moving at the speed of televised golf. So I did what any member of the

I feel like I frequently hit pages in Chrome that just do not respond to clicks, and I'll have to open it in Firefox just to use the page. For a while it was jcrew.com and one of the online brokerage sites (which both work fine now). But every time it happens I motion towards using Firefox permanently.

Ok ok... but you didn't address why everyone can't pee in the snow to melt it?

#ConfessionsofaBMWfanboy

BMW = DCT transmission

Yup, and it out-performed a BMW M5 in the slalom at the time due to the sticky Michelin PSS's.

Definitely the best looking in the segment. Thank you Jim Holland for bringing affordable Land Rover looks to the people!

If only that were true. I've heard repeatedly that the current high end iron sets can be bought outside the Callaway/TaylorMade factories in China for <$200USD a set. The markup is incredible.

Mmmm, good find.

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Yeah, Toyota definitely marketed the shape a lot more heavily. It's surprising what you can do to tune a car shape to get it to slip through the air... Check out this Megafactories episode about the GT-R. Around 11 minutes they start talking about the aerodynamics; specifically how a "boxy" shape can be aerodynamic.

I was wondering the same thing when I read about the Golf R traction control defeat yesterday. I'm moving into computer security myself, and I'm fascinated by this stuff.

The 1999 Honda Insight had the shape profile 4 years before the Prius did (2003). The first Prius was an ugly blob:

Yeah, even if its small fixes they make a difference. My 2014 FR-S had the knee pads on the sides of the footwells and it made it a lot more comfortable as a daily driver. I also didn't have the "crickets" noise issue under the hood.