Yeah, that's what I meant. Haven't been in Washington for a while.

I've bombed up and down Highway 9 between Arlington and Cle Elum (which is pretty fun) and haven't seen a single cop. But yes, I have encountered the highway patrol, and was ticketed for doing 71 in a 60 when I set the cruise control at 69.

I'd say that pretty much all of Washington State has great driving scenery and roads for one purpose or another. Mountain roads? Hit up the Olympic Peninsula or the Cascades. Straight, desert roads? Eastern Washington. Coastal vistas? Pacific Coast. Rally your thing? Try any number of abandoned logging roads. Also,…

Well, it was the cinnamon variety, so I could have seriously blinded somebody. Quick squirt in the eyes, and they're down for the count. And apparently they trusted me to do just that, because they gave it back.

They also found my smallish bottle of toothpaste. On the return trip. Never found my corkscrew, though.

My solution: Buy the base Focus, then buy your own Recaros. Or whatever seat you want. Could save alot of money that way.

A car's profile will generate lift naturally, but is usually designed with the ground in mind. Without the ground there, one end will generate more lift than the other, and nothing can counteract it. In this case, the front generated more lift, and the components were not adequately secured to the car, so the air…

So, in the second clip, there is clearly something on top of the manhole cover. However, once the car flips over it, it's gone. What's left is an empty manhole. Could it be that whatever it was caught the car's rear axle? The positioning and how the car catapulted are consistent. Also, something appears to roll past…

I've thought about something similar, using load cells to measure the weight of the tank, and therefore, its fuel content. Another option, along your second method, measure the fuel put in, then use the car's computer to determine how much fuel has been used. That way, you don't have to deal with the fuel gauge moving…

I'll agree with you there, ethanol is great as a fuel once it leaves the pump, if your car is built to run ethanol exclusively. Otherwise, it will take cellulosic ethanol to convert me to building a daily driver for it.

The problem is we'd have to use 95% of the land in the U.S. for corn fields to fuel every vehicle with ethanol. Yes, as a race fuel, alcohol works well. As a fuel for your typical commuter, not so much. We can't replace gasoline with ethanol, or at least the corn-based variety. Cellulosic? Maybe. Wood chips from…

I did a report on the effects of E85 in college, and determined that it wasn't all that helpful. It only works well in a vehicle designed to run E85 alone. Flex fuel vehicles are only made because the auto manufacturers get huge tax breaks for each flex fuel vehicle they make. If you want to use it well, you need high…

Hard to tell, although I wouldn't be surprised if certain models came with an IRS and others with the SRA. Either way, I'm happy. I know the Ford suspension engineers will make a great handling suspension either way.

I consider myself to be a pretty nice guy, and the 3 times I've been hit (only one my fault, even then, mechanical failure) I have been calm and courteous. But if someone hit my '65 Mustang that I have owned since I was 14, I'm pretty sure I'd flip shit, and use similar choice words to Kevin up there in the video.

Typically, the filtration material will separate from the seal, allowing all the crud that was supposed to be filtered out to circulate through the engine.

These. Apparently they can't stay together in the engine on their own, and they hide under the guise of a real service part. I think most people buy them because of the rubber grip.

Yep, put the wire between the terminals, go inside the car, and watch the check engine light flash on and off.

Too bad PETA actually kills most of the animals that come into their shelters, and think that owning pets is akin to slavery. I think that's why they're trying to do the whole vegan thing instead of their usual gig: People hate what they do in their usual gig.

Or it could just be an old heart. They said he was an elderly gentleman, so it could have just been the excitement of hitting 200 mph overwhelmed his heart, which gave out. So in that case, he really died doing what he loved. The car apparently could have saved his life from a crash like this, had his heart not given…

I hear about motors running 60 psi for gasoline drag racers sometimes, but that was the first I've heard about a motor running 100+ psi. I see why that is.