My problem with Blaster is the cans always break. I never get through an entire can before the spray head breaks off or it loses pressure.

I’ve seen PB Blaster all over the country, from Portland, OR to Maine. The label is so crazy that some may just ignore it?

Definitely my favorite from Erik.

And WD-40 smells legitimately awesome. Same with MMO!

Grander Cherokee

To be fair, they weren’t really allowed to fully unleash the power that some of those prototype engines made. The Yur-o-pee-ins wouldn’t let them fully weaponize the V-10.

They’re both completely forgettable.

Yeah, completely forgettable. Never understood the love. 

I work in the nuclear industry. If I was allowed to have prototypes fail and accept the occasional failure, you’d be driving around with a Mr. Fusion under the trunk. I can’t even fathom how much data and learning SpaceX got out of this. Amazing day.

A DC-8 did it in a dive in 1961!

I would contend relative speed. Plenty of cars have been even faster relative to their competition. They were usually outlawed (Penske PC23 is one of many examples). The Mercedes wasn’t really any faster than the Ferrari before their “innovation” (some may call it cheating) was discovered. I’m not going to argue that…

I remember seeing pictures where it cut through the ship’s engine and it looked like a section on a drawing. It was astoundingly clean. This looks like trying to cut a steak with a zip tie or something.

I’ve been saying this to anyone who would listen for years. Endurance racing is so painfully boring outside of the top spec that I just stopped watching. Seeing cars with a chassis likely capable of 800-900 HP running 500 is like watching a spec Miata race at 150% speed. Some of the “lesser” series, like Trans Am, are…

This needs moar story!

McElwain Chevrolet.

The one place I test drove one was at a Maryland dealer right outside of D.C. Like the SF Bay Area, they were flying off the lot (I think they had 17 in stock when I visited) and that was driven by a host of local incentives and probably just being the “right crowd” for the car (notably, I do not fit into the…

It seemed, in my experience, like a combination of that (plus lower post-sale service expectations) and just not wanting to learn anything new. There were plenty of times where the staff didn’t even understand the most basic part of a Volt; the whole plug-in aspect.

The number of stories I’ve heard of “I wanted to test drive a (insert Volt, Bolt, or ELR) and they tried to sell me a (insert Cruze, or more-typically SUV/truck)“ are depressing to me. It’s almost astounding the willful ignorance most dealers gave to these and how many first time GM-curious folks were turned away. I…

GM’s experience with the Volt and Bolt and their dealer network likely informed their malcontent. Many who left the GM family after very good experiences with those two cars did so due to their atrocious dealer network.

All the equipment I had at one point, save my riding mower, was picked up for free or near-to-it by people putting it out as “broken.” I never had to spend more than maybe $80 to fix any of them and they all still work today, a decade later. The stuff is not rocket surgery.