To the 26% of Tesla owners that would not buy another one, let me just say, go fuck yourself. Are you in the audience? Go fuck yourself.

Geez... To save a few extra pennies on gas in acar that already burned very little gas to begin with.

Car nerd kills a few minutes on a Friday afternoon reading a thought experiment article by a car nerd. Well done one and all.

Had one of those in high school. Loved it, beat the piss out of it. Ran for almost 300k miles before it blew a head gasket; would have cost more to fix it than it was worth, so it was donated. 

That’s bad UX dev, not over-engineering.

The infamous timing set from the Audi 4.2 V8....why?

Many cars have them, but the execution varies. I think the handles with a physical button do it best, since that has tangible feedback, but my Subaru’s handles work really well as a touch lock/unlock. Idk why, but I have all sorts of issues with my wife’s VW while she never has a problem making it work.

They’re not just destroying their margins, they’re destroying their value for their customers. It’s a common belief that any car loses a considerable portion of their value the moment they drive off the lot, but that’s in the resale market. It’s a whole other ballgame to pick up a car and the very next day find out…

I think the Lincoln takes the cake

brother,,,, we do a QOTD every single day. 

New here? They do these “poll the readers” questions pretty often. This site is a business and to stay IN business they need to drive clicks. While the writers work on “real” articles, it’s easy for them to foster a bit of genuine engagement with articles like this. The time it took to set this up has no real impact…

I love the handles on the 10th (and final) generation of the Lincoln Continental. The way the sit flush against the chrome trim around the windows gives them a well-integrated and elegant look. I actually thought the entire car itself was pretty nice looking, but the door handles in particular stood out to me as a…

Really no more complicated than a standard Hybrid, just a bigger battery. My two Hybrids have been ridiculously reliable. My ‘07 Highlander has 282k miles on it. Other than basic maintenance the only thing I have done is a radiator due to age, condenser from an accident and I had a coil pack go up. Just oil/filter,…

Long live Godzilla!

Yes.

Designed to either destroy a formation of bombers or “poison” the nuclear weapons they are carrying with via neutron flux

Yeah, that was basically the idea. It’s from a time when the main fear was Soviet bombers with nukes (rather than ICBMs, which came later) and missile tech wasn’t good enough to hit those bombers head-on yet, so instead they came up with a nuclear missile that could get close enough and hopefully take out a whole…

Yes, indirect. Close does in fact count in this case. Lots of things to kill in that part of the stockpile-target sequence. IDK if Glasstone’s weapon effects book (a huge reference today regardless of its publish date) covers effects on airborne assets however.

This story is all blown over (pun intended).

elements of a very large, mostly intact nuclear missile — including its goddamn warhead — were found in the garage of a Washington State resident.