Oh, no. The pessimist inside me says that software updates provide an excuse for vendors to be sloppy and rush products out of the door despite any "known bugs", because bugs no longer mean costly recalls. "Yes we shipped the product with a known defect, just wait for the update".

Chrysler has a decent idea for this, they've been doing it for about the last 5 years or so.

Too many people have this attitude and its a huge part of the problem. I'll admit I had about the same views on this sort of stuff (I'm not a drug trafficker, what do I care?) until I was a victim of a Federal civil asset forfeiture even though I was never charged with a crime (in fact one agent readily admitted to me…

Seems like you're really easily offended by comments which don't imply what you apparently adamantly believe they mean without any basis.

This is seriously epic stuff! I'm always happy to see the maintenance people getting some limelight, especially in aviation.

while it looks like this one might be a traditional manual trans, when you get into the big leagues you go to Lenco transmissions which are nothing like what you'll find on the street:

Ronnie Sox

Of course, the most fantastically, absurdly wealthy of Jalopnik readers are screaming at me, personally, to just get to the point already and tell you all about where you can buy it and who's doing the brokering and all that, because that's a service you get with Jalopnik PRO, the service you've never heard about…

I have also transformed the way I work on my car.

Just get an OBD programmer , like a Superchips module, and set your tire size to half of what it is now. You get 14MPH per second for your braking limit, and your driving distance is halved as well.

I earned a substantial discount.

It's a 1991 Sentra SE-R, my grassroots-racing dream car. I bought this one stock, it was my daily driver / weekend-racer for two years until this past fall when a friend of mine, a fellow racer, welded in the RA-spec roll cage. I was originally planning ESPR when it was still a tarmac rally, but decided to switch to…

You had me at toggle switches.

I can't say I'm surprised by the result but I can say that I am glad this match-up happened.

If you don't use a digital tire pressure gauge, you could end up crashing your otherwise terrific car due to the resulting 1.5 p.s.i. difference in one tire. Proven fact. Having turned off traction control and booting the accelerator to show off have nothing to do with it, it will happen.

Indeed. Which is one reason that I am proud of my country.

Mexico's homicide rate is 21.6 per 100K; Canada's (where I live) is 1.6. That's more than 13 times.

"jackoffosaur" was a pretty clutch way to take care of four syllables

Not quite haiku, even English haiku, but so beautiful I had to admire its elegant beauty: