Elon Musk “Brilliant idea everyone, we have a high margin car we know has high margins and our buyers want to replace it with a newer, fresher model to give us a fresh capital infusion. Let’s... go ahead and spend spend spend on low margin compact sedans and a small crossover instead!”

100%, it’s as if no one has heard of the Ridgeline and the sales challenges it has had.

sooooooooo it’s a Camaro?

How any functional business can agree to NOT increase health care costs given what we know is insanity. Management is idiotic to have caved to the UAW on this demand. Pay is a known liability, medical care costs on the other hand...

100%, I fly LAX-NRT somewhat regularly and, honestly, I don’t see the cost-benefit ratio of supersonic flight. You shave a few hours to spend 4x as much? Who is going to pay that? Further, those paying the most would be business class and I much prefer my 7-8 hours of sleep before getting to Narita over an alternative…

Pointless. Automakers need to figure out the higher end sporty models need manuals. They also need to realize they can charge extra to make up for the development cost relative to take rate.

I know, that’s why I don’t understand why the throttle body still looks like a carburetor.

Forgive me as I know nothing about NASCAR, but if I recall correctly (and as the image above shows) they now run fuel injection and have entered 1980's with a bang (before any one hates on this comment, I know that within the limits allowed these race engines do have the latest in tech/fluid dynamics/CAE/etc. applied).…

I’m too used to 80 in a 55 being par for the course in Detroit, admittedly. I feel like I’m crawling on every trip down to Columbus/Dublin area.

I truly feel for you poor souls who must endure this every. Single. Day. The worst was the sign on I75 from Michigan that actually read “welcome to OHI-Whoa, keep your speed down”....

I’m not referring to a plate violation, I meant if I’m heading head on at a state trooper in their gray chargers and I don’t have a front plate they know with a high degree of certainty I am from out of state/not local and I am less likely to fight a ticket or be a local resident. I’ve been tagged in Ohio before while…

Finally!!! I’ve always been convinced that this was kept as nothing more than an “hello Mr overzealous Ohio police officer, I’m clearly from out of state so pay attention to me” tactic. Driving through Ohio blows and I swear every cop watches every car that doesn’t have a front plate. You’re from far away and you…

Dave Coleman was the best! I loved all the highly detailed swap articles and engineering deep dives.

Very cool, I’ll have to plan at least a day or two on my own for a future trip.

Much appreciated, I’ll have to check these out. Yeah the problem I have is because of trains my employer doesn’t really do rental cars for employees in Japan which dramatically limits things.

I wish! My parents through all mine away when I went off to college and left them in my room back home. Most annoyingly they shut the magazine down before online readership took off so I can’t even find the articles online.

I’ve been to Japan three times and still haven’t made it here despite it being a goal of mine since reading about it in Sport Compact Car while wrenching on my ‘96 Integra GS-R... I really need to find time outside of the office.

Typo above, meant to say “unsafe” as by nearing 14.7:1 you are actually at the point of a “lean” fuel mixture for unleaded gasoline at, say, 14.5:1.

14.7:1 is the not the stoichiometric ratio of commercial unleaded “gasoline.” it is the stoichiometric ratio of pure octane, CH3(CH2)6CH3. This is particularly comical among ME’s as a chemist myself I had a friend and PowerTrain calibration lead at GM then FCA tell me it’s 14.7:1. It’s a common misnomer but safe as…

Can confirm, due to some inane reason the seat belt height adjuster in your car (the thing that makes the seat belt come out of the B-pillar higher or lower) is still a 7/16" bolt and is called out as such on all engineering prints. Fun fact, this is a global item as well, not just FMVSS. I believe it’s simply a…