Racecars, too. Pretty much every track I’ve raced at still has 110 leaded available.

Leaded gasoline for cars finally disappeared from the Earth for good in 2021, but its affects will be with us for a long time.

I am 99% certain that my mom’s ‘86-ish Schwinn High Sierra had these same Suntour roller cam brakes. My recollection, a little foggy after 35 years, is that they actually had pretty good feel (they seemed less squishy than many contemporary bikes) but were a pain in the ass to keep in adjustment.

Which is why theseAOTD slideshows are such a joke. What possible relevance does a car that cost $5k 17 fucking years ago have to the question of what the best $5k cars are today?

You know what was an awesome car for less than $5k 50 years ago? A Hemi Superbird. Why don’t we put that on the list, too?

Wrong. A primitive form of fuel injection (“air-blast injection”) had been developed in the late 19th century and was put to use on Rudolf Diesel’s first engines.

The same way some pre-EFI fuel-injected gasoline engines worked, with a mechanical injection pump. Go take a look at an old fuel-injected Alfa, with a Spica pump. Basically looks like a diesel injection pump.

The term you’re actually looking for is “multi-point” fuel injected. Within that, there are indirect-injected (fuel is injected into in a “pre-chamber” within the cylinder head) or direct-injected (fuel is injected directly into the cylinder) diesel engines.

Yes, the Mach-E (though not my cup of tea) is a much more interesting option as well. Maybe I just expect too much out of VW, but this is like the Breeze-era Plymouth of EVs.

VW fanboi here, but this does not surprise me at all... the ID.4 is Sominex on wheels. There is exactly nothing exciting about it in a category where it would seem wise to take a few risks. I mean... look at an ID.4, then look at an Ioniq 5.

Yeah, they certainly tend to run more seamlessly into the center stack than they used to, so I guess that’s a fair evolution of the term.

*console, not counsel. Or more accurately, integrate it into the dashboard, since putting a touchscreen way down in the center console would be a poor ergonomic choice.

To be fair, her speech is still protected. She can plaster “Tits Out” or any other constitutionally protected message she wants all over her minivan. What’s at stake here (and in other license-plate cases in other states) is whether she can use a state-issued (and state-manufactured) license plate to convey the…

Bingo. I had a similar experience, but on two wheels. I had a ‘72 Yamaha DS7 (250cc two-stroke twin, predecessor to the RD series) that I did a full resto on. That bike was objectively pretty slow by modern motorcycle standards, but you could wring its neck everywhere, all the time, if you wanted to.

Ahhhh, this takes me back to my teenage years, driving around in my quickly-returning-to-the-elements Beetle and suddenly hearing a scraping sound.

Yep, the battery fell through the floor pan and was dragging on the road. The roadside fix was to take one of the pieces of plywood that was preventing backseat passengers…

Cheapskate that I am, I haven’t bought a brand-new car since 1996... but the Ioniq 5 has got me thinking very hard about pulling the trigger. From a utility standpoint, it ticks the necessary boxes: hatchback, roomy enough to carry teenaged kids comfortably behind my 6'4" frame, good range, quick charging. But I’m not…

It’s also probably worth pointing out that he held up Leclerc on a hot lap in FP1. And not only did he finish last in FP1, but he finished behind Robert Kubica who: (1) was driving the not-particularly-speedy Alfa; (2) hasn’t driven an F1 car since pre-season testing in February; and (3) was on the hard tires…

My old Citroën DS had the spare mounted about as far front as the engineers could place it.

For real, when I was in high school, a friend’s dad used to drive to Ohio to buy gas because it was cheaper there than it was here in Michigan (I should also note that our town was 79 miles north of the Michigan-Ohio border on I-75).

Or maybe he had a mistress there. In hindsight, that makes much more sense.

Close. ‘72.

I could live with it. Compression ratios (and horsepower) were starting to fall and cars were on the cusp of getting uglier and more bloated, but we were at the tail end of the small-bumper era and there were still some nice looking cars that had carried over from earlier times.