That’s a valid question, but it’s not like the interaction between tires and the pavement is currently a perfectly efficient energy transfer. There is a lot of wasted energy from heat and noise, and it might be possible for this technology to be harvesting that wasted energy rather than causing the vehicle to expend…

2008 was a veeeeeery long year. Before or after the collapse? I was buying premium in Los Angeles for $4.99/gal, that is, when I wasn’t taking the bus to the beach. According to the gasbuddy.com historical price charts, the nationwide average price for regular was $4.10/gal in the summer of ‘08.

Were you not of driving age in 2007-2008? Premium was pushing $4.99/gal then.

Neutral: Final assembly point: Stuttgart, Germany. Country of Origin Engine: Germany. Transmission: Germany.

The pre-87 928 engine has to be pulled if you want to take the heads off.

Dick Teague and Tony Lapine worked together in a GM design studio in the 50s, so they have some common design characteristics.

It’s the one that has $365 rubber engine mounts, $250 rubber transmission mounts, $3500 1st/2nd gearsets, $75 molded vacuum hoses, $125 chain tensioner pads, and $850 pressure plates.

Um, I have a Porsche. It costs a lot to maintain.

All kidding aside, what are the odds now that you’ll ever review the Forester XT since you’ve already done a 2.5i review? From an editorial standpoint, wouldn’t it have been better to wait it out? Especially as the XT is more-or-less a raised WRX?

What is this, SensibleAutomobile.com? Why didn’t you get the XT?

Chef? Applebee’s? That entree was heated up in a plastic bag and plated by someone making $3.50 an hour. That’s how it got past them.

Do you have a link to the PDF of the complaint? That might be some interesting reading.

And yet at my Costco there is always a longer line for people filling from the left side. Which, as a right-side fill owner, makes me pretty happy.

That taxiway is much narrower than the runway, had no number markings, and it had an airliner sitting at it’s threshold holding short of the runway that Ford was supposed to be landing on. Given his snarky ATC call, he probably saw it the whole time and his indignancy was just boiling for the perceived slight of…

A sewer worker died in Chicago last week when the trench he was working in collapsed. There’s a reason why you have to contact the authorities when doing underground work.

This one’s easy. The PPG Pace Car.

Because that’s not a HP vs RPM plot. It’s an HP histogram. The x-axis is time. Which is why there’s a separate RPM vs time plot beneath it.

Too late. The era of $50k 550s is long gone. They’re already pushing $120k again.

It doesn’t just mitigate it, the concrete bonds to the rebar and assumes its tensile strength.

“Honestly I can’t say what I’d do, but my first instinct with anything dangerous in life is typically to give up immediately.”