it wasn’t directly to me, but in the local moto dealer once, and another customer asking the salesman how the the-new mode switch on the GSX-R 1000 handled reducing power.  his response was that it cut spark to 1 or 2 of the cylinders, and it’d be bad to use it too much.

if dig into everything, it’s almost surely technically to add a catalytic convertor to my car that didn’t come with the factory with one, because it’d modifying emissions equipment with parts that aren’t CARB approved. it’d run cleaner, but that’s illegal if it doesn’t have the proper approvals.

Let’s be real, though. the same dealers did the same thing when the first Hellcats came out, and they did exactly the same thing when they rolled out the Challengers...instant $30k markup on the window sticker as “market adjustment”, simply because they were new.

that’s funny...walmart had no problem sending me back out in the rain on bald ass tires because they didn’t stock the factory size, and refused to put on a set of the ones they had in stock (which were the same size as the ones on the truck).

when i bought my truck some years ago, i did the test drive, then told them i wanted to sleep on it (it was one of those “5 at this price” anyway, so not a big miss...).

haven’t heard the latest monsters, but there was a very nice bass note to the recent ones...the triples are a symphony though.

their email is an @altavista.com domain

people will realize how ugly that hot concept turned out to be (yeah, i’m overgeneralizing) when rendered in real world production-line terms, and lose all that excitement they had to get one?

torque has a ton of functionality built in, and lots of different things you can watch. the biggest limitation is your car and/or dongle. tried using it chasing issues on my truck (that turned out to be a dying fuel pump), but while torque HAS that data point, the ECU on my truck doesn’t report it, so it only ever…

could that black suv be a Jimny, perhaps?

i was thinking of that one too, like how could anything top that for ND votes?

even worse...

not to mention some states, you’re stuck with a lower speed limit when towing.

I think you mean deprecated  #vocabnazi

saw an ad for ups jobs recently that mentioned “deliver packages in your own vehicle!”

cases in point...complaining about a tesla being too fast. all the aneurysms over the italian police and the donor organ run... 

side note: last i heard, kamei does occasionally still do runs of their air dams for the classic beetles.  i can vouch it does make a difference in stability, even at some pretty ridiculous speeds (and yes, it was downhill).

did the same with a beetle in mud, on street tires. only got stuck once, when it was deep enough to beach on its belly.

is the WRX able to keep rolling with minimal effort because there isn’t much (if anything) directly competing with it now that the Evo has faded away to the pit lane in the sky?

I see a lot of pearl clutching in the comments, but I don't see any indication of whether the roads were closed for this or not. With the transport following a predictable (and probably planned) route, is it really a big deal to close the roads (or at least stop traffic) ahead for the transport to pass safely?