Come on, we all know it's not the sale-pukes who are the biggest problem in buying a car. It's the slimy cork-soakers in the financing department who write up the purchase. Sales-pukes just tend toward being uninformed, greedy and uninterested; that's what they're paid for. The finance guys (and gals, I assume)…

I believe capitalism has its advantages but the free market is not the highest form of human expression. Some of the big advantages we're seeing in development now, like small, lightweight and fuel efficient engines, are direct results of requirements given to the manufacturers. CAFE requirements force mfr's to look…

Old joke, but you have to pay attention to keeping the smoke levels up. If you let too much electrical smoke out things get bad:

I'm all for dropping the curb weight of all vehicles. I think their should be specific penalties for the over-weight pigs that car companies keep marketing, whether it's stupid-large SUV's, hugely over-built "light trucks" or sedans and coupes and 2+2's like the Pony.

Yeah, he nearly lost his BMW pilot's license for that. He recovered by backing into a new FIAT in the pits, then driving off without leaving a note though...

She parked upon the parallel lines; that means she successfully parallel parked it, right?

Boomer!

Ok, so you didn't feel like you could afford to quit after the first time you were jumped with a taser at work? Um. Ok. So, how about this? Take a quick visit to the service department and borrow a pry bar or even a good tire iron. Wait till the guy who tased you has his back turned and slam the pry bar into the…

Not true! The Governor is also abhorrent and all the UT fans are pretty awful, too.

"drivers may compensate for the distraction of cellphone use by... consciously driving more carefully during a call."

I guess my version of this has always been not caring what they think. I've spent lots of hours in public speaking, from being on stage to debate to presentations and I honestly don't care whether or not "they" like me. I want to get information across and to make sure those who want the information I'm presenting…

Montana used to have no given open-highway speed limits, but instead had a rule of "Just and prudent." As long as you were staying safe and sane, you could drive as fast as conditions, including traffic, weather, and equipment allowed. They changed it years back due to way too many morons, including a herd of…

so don't watch uTube for testing videos of airliners where they flex the wingtips till they pop or flood a full-sized fuselage with water to see how much pressure it can take.

If you're a nervous flyer and don't handle airliners well, by all means avoid flying on rotorcraft...

Breaking news! They have a picture of the suspect:

Bail. GTFO. Don't look back.

My Mom and Dad. Mom was a professional teacher who never met a kid she couldn't teach; Dad was a natural teacher who just had the ability to teach the most complex of processes (honing the cylinders of a Ford 302? Engineering and building a mount to allow multiple implements to be pulled en echelon? Welding,…

The safety briefings before being allowed on pits was always fun. The engineers I worked with wouldinvariably point out that the tires on those things were worth upwards of $55 each and as such, they were more worried about the cost of replacing them than they were about either crushing your vehicle or running over…

Cause friction eats energy which otherwise could be applied to moving the bike forward. Think of it like this: You're pushing a heavy barrel, on it's side, up a hill. Would you rather the hill be paved with hard concrete, soft sticky asphalt? The barrel will literally stick to the asphalt so you have to overcome…

Needs more kittehs...