Yep. I can read a hell of a lot faster than you can speak. Videos are a waste of my time. Put it in writing, guys.

The car is literally 50 horsepower away from being respectable. I wanted a hardtop S2000, Subaru, not a hardtop Miata.

You know what’s really crappy about aluminum in the context of trucks, particularly the beds?

I said the 6.2 was a better engine; the Raptor has not offered the 5.4L since model year 2010. Thus, the Ecoboost is not replacing the 5.4; it’s replacing the 6.2.

Everything beats the 5.4 in every single way possible. Seriously, my Honda beats the 5.4 every day of the week and twice on Sundays, and my Honda has a grass clippings bag attached to it. The 5.4's sole redeeming quality is that it’s not the V10 (although, to the 6.8's credit, it doesn’t habitually puke its own spark…

Performing a standardized test simply allows for a quantitative comparison between engines under controlled conditions. In this case, it’s a measurement of the impact of the turbocharging system on throttle response, to the exclusion of most (all, practically speaking) other variables. The fact that it fails the test…

I wouldn’t dispute that the Ecoboost has a better dyno chart than the 5.0. I also wouldn’t dispute that there is no comparison between either the 4.6 or the 5.4 and the Ecoboost; both the 4.6 and the 5.4 are execrable turds whose sole redeeming quality is that they make a really nice noise with the right exhaust…

That’s a good point. I just finished an x-country road trip in a Jeep SRT8. By 4000 feet a nontrivial number of those horses had left the stable. At that altitude, I’d be willing to tolerate the lagginess of the Ecoboost (or most other turbo engines) in trade for the ability to minimize/eliminate the effect of…

I’ve had firsthand experience with the Ecoboost in a LWB Expedition. It’s an unimpressive engine. Definitely not the worst I’ve ever experienced, and definitely far from the best. It is hilariously, ridiculously, stupidly overhyped, and not a suitable replacement for a good naturally aspirated V8 (like, say, the one…

The v8 will be missed. The ecoboost v6 is an OK engine. Emphasis on “ok.” You could do much worse, but everyone that has hailed it as the second coming of christ has either not experienced it, or has the perceptive capabilities of a ficus.

My 560SEL was debadged because at the time, it was a legitimately fast car (relative to what most people were driving) and pulling the badge made it easier to sucker people into thinking it was a diesel. I’m currently on the fence about pulling the badges off the z06 and the M5; on the one hand, I kinda enjoy letting…

From 2004-2008, I was a service advisor at an independent German car specialist shop, seeing 25-50 cars a week. I’m intimately familiar with this generation of A6. My professional opinion is:

...and nothing of value was lost.

My ideal is under 8lbs/HP.

The current one weighs 400lbs more than it should, has a roofline taller than some CUVs, and looks like it’s retaining water.

I’m just gonna leave this here:

Yeah, that may be an option. I’m also looking at moving somewhere that gets actual weather (read: snow), in which case I’m not going to bother keeping the TDI either way, and the most likely options are:

Yeah it does. I don’t really have the patience for anything with less than about 200hp (assuming a curb weight of about 3000# or more, that is.) The only reason the TDI doesn’t drive me up the wall is because ~240lb/ft @ <2000rpms allows it to do a passable simulation of a “Real Engine” in normal driving.

No, see. That’s not it. I’m one of the five people in the world that buy manual transmission wagons (diesel optional) new. The other car I cross shopped was a new cts-v wagon. Yes, seriously. I am the only person in history to look at a $75k Cadillac and a $28k VW. Tried to get the CTS-V, Couldn’t track one down,…

Personally, the fact that my personal fleet average across 10 cars is like 12mpg and I’ve got a few that are well into single digits in city driving doesn’t make me proud.