It's easy to check the final drive ratio and compare, I just don't really have the motivation.

Well, as long as nobody dies it's NBD that he does it right? People should just stop complaining about things like not-quite-manslaughter.

You'd be hard pressed to find a new car without an overdrive (ratios tend near .7 or so, most 6 and 7 speeds have two overdrive gears) "Traditional overdrives" are the same thing they've always been. A gear ratio less than 1:1.

Oops, yeah I was unclear. I'm saying they can be throttled by adjusting the phase and current (speed adjustment) that way you don't murder driveline components or drive at WOT everywhere. Like varying the voltage in a DC motor.

I am glad I'm not the only nerd in the world. This was my first thought as well. "BUT THE '37s!"

I daily drove a '67 Mustang to high school. That was in 2005.

I'm talking about characteristics of motors, not specific software based controllers that alter a motors output artificially for longevity reasons. In DC motors, torque is mostly linear with amperage draw, in AC, it's dependent on the phase. Also, torque production doesn't taper off because power production does,…

Well, that's not exactly true. You are always seeing peak torque. Peak power happens at the max RPM of the motor. HP = TQ x RPM / 5252. So your torque "curve" is a horizontal line and your power 'curve' is proportional to RPM.

How does one flood a fuel injected car?

Utility to the consumer has nothing to do with the capabilities of the vehicle - it has to do with the needs of the buyer. Within those bounds, the cheapest vehicle that meets the requirements should be the one you purchase if you have any sense of fiscal awareness. If my truck can fly to the moon and shoot lasers it…

Or, if you're doing any sort of budgeting, you realize that you might have already found 6oo a year for the Ranger and there isn't more.

So how do they extrapolate a 5 year owning horizon based on 1 year of data?

2008 Ranger 4.0 V6 SPORT Supercab:

I have the 2008 4x4 version of the same truck (which, lets be honest, is the same truck exactly with a new cupholder)

Anyone who runs the comparisons of simple things like tire cost and basic maintenance can make that decision easily. As I did.

As long as it can be installed upside down, definitely.

Lol. This is what got me as well.

Anyone who's driven an F1 or LMP2 car is still wrong, assuming they've never been in a deorbiting space capsule.

A moment is a moment, no matter where you put it, and it's reacted through the spindle. The force couple generated by the caliper-rotor interface loading never sees the suspension. Since the magnitude is dependent on the torque and tire friction, and the direction only on the tire contact patch and suspension…

Don't worry guys. I'll be in charge of power generation so horspowr can keep our email going in multiple countries with varying plug configurations.