I grew up in a small town out in the middle of Illinois and it was amazing how they could keep the airport running during nasty weather, but they had the huge advantage of very low traffic in and out of the airport - so they would quite literally station a fleet of snow plows at the end of the runway, and when a plane…

They actually do sell the Explorer in Europe, still - just Eastern Europe and Iceland, though. The current model has nothing in common with the old one, though, and is much more fuel efficient. The new one has a 2.0L 4 cylinder as the base engine - about as much power as the old 4.0L, but it gets about 45% better…

It doesn't even necessarily take chemicals. Dust from otherwise benign products can do this....

Share your love for all things internal combustion with all your house guests with a camshaft lamp. This one pictured uses a camshaft from a Kawasaki motorcycle, but any camshaft should do the trick.

Turns out there's a lot going to Mexico, too :

http://www.mlive.com/business/index…

That's about $5.8 billion in auto-related exports (including parts, of course, some of which come back into the US later) from Michigan to Mexico alone.

Looking at Ford's Mexico lineup, I believe the following are imported from the US -…

It is a bit misleading - but the big players in these numbers are Ford, GM, and FCA - Honda and Toyota export some vehicles (not nearly as many as they import), but they're small players by comparison. But remember - exports to Canada are exports... so we've had a large number for years. And Canada does love its…

Yeah... and we get pretty darned frequent salting here, too - November through March every year.... I've seen cars quite literally with salt crystals growing on them.

Corvette floorboards. Balsawood and fiberglass, long before composite materials became popular...

I've never understood this - how could they be so bad elsewhere and I *never* see rust, let alone anything near this bad, here in Ohio? Heck, they put down 2 inches of salt for every inch of snow around here...

Apple employs chickens?

The Bolt is supposed to be $30k after the tax credits, not $35k.

And given Tesla's gross inability to hit their price targets (and waffling on what those even are), the Model 3 is more likely to be in the $45-55k range, I'd wager.

And, for comparison, the 1990 CRX Si came in at an MSRP of $11,130 with few discounts. Adjusted for inflation, that's $20,160 today. So anything in the $20k range still falls within the "cheap" definition if the old CRX did.... Especially considering that a 3-4 year loan back in 1990 would run 9-10% at a minimum,…

I love the ingenuity and the idea.

But that video makes it look like it does an absolutely terrible job as a snowblower.

I'm not sure which of these is more likely to hurt people - the airbag or the senator...

Simple. Mainstream station wagons. If you want an actual station wagon, there are almost no options below $30k.

Straw man.

The argument was that they didn't have enough money from gas taxes to pay for road repair and construction because it was being siphoned off. Reality shows us that we're spending more on roads than we are collecting in gas taxes.

Well, New York's gas taxes, tolls, and user fees cover 43.8% of what they spend on roads there, according to the Tax Foundation. Only North Carolina, New Jersey, Florida, and Delaware are higher as a % of spending.

Nope.

Nope.

The federal government has been spending $40-45 billion per year on roads. (the total budget including other items such as mass transit, trails, etc, is about $55 billion). The federal gas tax only brings in a bit over $30 billion a year in tax.

State and local governments are even worse, with gas taxes not even…

Something is going to have to give or we're not going to have well-maintained roads anymore. It's as simple as that.