Down 25-30% in the last 90 days according to the web traffic analytics websites. Probably have to pay a subscription fee to see the downward trend over the last several years.

As someone who has been unsuccessfully chasing a rear hatch squeak for many years, I am wondering why no one invented a 12 volt electromagnetic lock, that would magnetically hold a door, hood, or hatch, shut and tightly in place, while 12 volts is applied to it. Could wire it to engage when the car is in gear, moving,…

I read through that, and it reminded me of another debate from a while back, the argument that the exhaust system on a car must not be changed from factory or replaced with a higher performance exhaust system with a larger pipe diameter. The “engines must have backpressure” argument. “The car manufacturer spent all…

Another person who knows absolutely nothing about St. Louis County commenting on Ferguson.

Just finished stripping a car destroyed in a warehouse fire. Plastic, glass, carpet, fabric, foam, all burned to ash or melted. Much of the aluminum melted, some spared. Transmission, transfer case, and rear differential all had clean oil and rotate and shift smoothly. Axles, driveshafts, front and rear subframes and…

If we are ordered by law to stay 6 feet apart from each other when we are walking around on the ground, then airlines must be required to mount their seats 6 feet apart in their airplanes.

I was banished to gray immediately following an interaction with Max Finkel. He posted an article asking for automotive myths. I responded with several Isuzu related myths:

The same airlines who continually narrow seats and move rows closer and closer together, eliminating any social distancing and maximizing the transmission of the coronavirus?

100% agree, and:

You’re looking at the overwhelming likelihood of staring at four walls for the next five or six weeks of this Zombie Apocalypse.

Official Tire Rack Sponsored, Jalopnik Policy on Snow Tires:

It’s brown, has a high probability of being diesel, and it’s rear wheel drive. What exactly are you complaining about. If it were available in a wagon, it would be the poster car for Jalopnik.

Actually, the video record shows that most of the Moai were damaged by a Toyota Camry. But it is understandable, because the Camry, with smaller interior space, does not have Nishiboric passive four wheel steering or a Lotus tuned suspension, like the Isuzu Stylus XS.

...surprised by the number of people I encountered who felt that the car itself had some say in when a fuel pump would cut off...

The center locks will be more like flying buzz saws when “kicked out from under the tires when leaving the pits”.

...the move away from 15" wheels was an effort to provide more relevance and correlation to today’s production cars. That, however, is total bullshit, as none of the Fords, Toyotas, or Chevrolets NASCAR racers are allegedly based upon use center lock wheels, and many of them come standard with larger than 18"…

The primary concern when dealing with a lead-acid battery should be their ability (propensity) to make the metal beneath them “translucent”.

Remember? If you are a younger person who uses them in everyday communications, perhaps, as long as you are close enough to see the little cartoon symbol. But this is an issue of being able to _identify_ the marking on the vehicle ID tag. The font for the numbers and letters on a license plate have been specifically…

Will Vermont issue “overseas plates” for use when Vermont drivers operate their vehicles outside the state of Vermont, which conform to the universal convention of using letters of the alphabet and numbers? (Similar to the Japanese overseas plates which translate the Kanji characters into numbers and letters.)

“Handling by Lotus” is synonymous with excessive body roll (look at the picture in the ad) and harsh dampers. These packages were never intended for “track day” use. They chose springs that were overly soft to avoid complaints that the ride was too stiff, but they then compensated with absurdly heavy dampening that…