Just under a 50% improvment in fuel economy with an additional 190hp is impressive.

I don’t think anything would explode if you left everything stock besides slapping on the supercharger. Reason why is the tires can only put so much power down to the pavement. Once the tires start spinning the rest of the compoants are not loaded up accelerating the car. Now if you add slicks or drag raidals or you…

Regarding the back seat - When was the last time anybody with compact car had 3 adults back there? It doesn’t happen very often. The middle seat would more likely be used for a car seat or booster seat if needing to transport 5 people across town. Also all the old rwd sedans from the 80s and earlier had a hump in the…

Only bike you should consider getting for commuting is Japanese. Anything else will kill you on maintenance. Plus what’s the point on putting daily highway miles on some semi exotic bike. I’ve been commuting in Los Angeles for 10+ years, started on a Buell that broke down 3x the first year I had it, spent $2k on a…

First gear: I don’t get what is so revolutinarny about Uber, it’s an unregulated taxi that you hail with an app instead of a phone call or raising your arm on the sidewalk. Sure it’s more convenient but it’s still a taxi, they have been around as long as cars have and plenty of people are still buying cars.

Can’t really compare the two like this since they are diffrent class of cars and the 27 years of advancements in general. The 1st-2nd gen Taurus was a mid size and the new is classified as a full size. The old one was more hardcore for the time than the new one is. For a modern day SHO to be true to original you’d…

Whoa, whoa, whoa, now hold on a second the Laserdisc was vastly superior to any other form of media of the time. Much better resolution and uncompressed digital sound. Also in the age before the internet where you can look up anything you want about a movie, the Laserdiscs had director commentary and extra…

I grew up in central MA during the 80s-90s and there wasn’t any gates at the 2 or 3 road crossings in town or come to think of it in the surrounding towns either. I mean you got some flashing red lights telling you a train is coming so stop and don’t cross the tracks unless you want to get hit by a train. Not that…

About 10 years ago a co-worker was looking into getting one of these and told him a better choice was a 1st gen Bronco. Since it is basically the same car, much more reliable, cheaper, and more fun. I worked in a junk yard back in the mid-late 90s that had a lot of European cars and the jags and land rovers were the…

I prefer the interface intergrated into the dash, having what looks like a computer monitor bolted to the dash looks like it was an after thought and lazy. It does how ever make it easy to replace when it goes out or is damaged. Which is another downside since it appears everything is controled thought the touch…

I’ve driven a few cars with HID lights and for how much more they cost over a halogen bulb, they are not worth it. The design of the reflector makes a bigger difference than HID v halogen.

Wouldn’t say it’s ugly but doesn’t look like a $100k+ car or even a $25K+ car. Every time I see one on the road I go oh look an Eclipse didn’t know they still made those, oh wait it’s a GTR.

Funny thing is I couldn’t understand why someone would buy one of these when there are much better luxury cars for the same price. Then last year looking for a car for my wife, she wanted a luxury SUV and I wanted a regular family sedan with good gas mileage. We ended up getting a loaded 2013 MKZ hybrid with 11k miles…