no way MBUX could be some marketing choad’s smile and wink at MegaBucks...

the Element is the perfect car for anyone with a dog and a yearning for moderate adventure.

bonus is that they are surprisingly capable off piste.  not 4wd pickup or jeep level, but good enough to get waaaay down that unmaintained logging road in maine to get to the river.

while completely fucking cool, I’m gonna vote crack pipe for 3 reasons:
1: slushbox - I don’t care if it is an old school manually shifted one, it is still a slushbox.
B: seriously, chip foose would have a conniption over the shitty fit of those bumpers
3: the penis on the hood. ruins the lines of a very pretty car. a…

treasonous fuck needs to rot in Leavenworth along with the rest of the traitor brigade.

this was not a good car when it was new. it was unreliable and handled pretty badly even compared to similar FWD cars of the day.

it was fairly attractive compared to other cars on the market, but not world changing.

or just a heel shifter FFS. $250 add on for something that is basically mandatory on a bike with floorboards instead of footpegs.

I like the power windscreen and they finally fixed their terrible hand controls (something else I liked better on the Harley than the Honda)

the other things that I have seen a lot of with…

news flash - jet fuel is diesel, just highly refined.

the Army uses JP8 to fuel everything - generators, tanks, helos, UAVs, airplanes, trucks and motorcycles.

the stock pipes are reasonably quiet, just the first thing almost every owner does is throw on louder pipes because loud pipes == large penis. I would actually want extra quiet pipes if they made such a thing.

I did back to back 800 mile weekends with my wife on the 2015 wing and harley ultra.

my whole life I have been a UJM/sporty standard guy and my current bike at the time was a BMW R1100R. if I were to buy a bike for me to ride solo right now, it would probably be the Yamaha XSR700 or 900.

shockingly (to both of us) we…

“started life as a 964", then they took the whole thing except the VIN plate and the engine block to the junk yard and built a 100% new car from scratch.

this isn’t a fixed up 964, this is a new car with an old VIN for tax and emissions purposes.

The gas mileage figures for toyota trucks in general are pretty fucking bad.

when ford, chevy and dodge manage to get low 20s highway real world on full sized pickups, the 15-17 of the tundra is just hard to understand.  toyota knows how to build an efficient engine, so why does their truck suck so bad?

when I was…

while it is pretty, it is also pretty generic against the current GT/sporty coupe crowd.

you could slap the lexus rc-f, toyobaru, jag, nissan z or any number of other grills on the front and be hard pressed to tell which is the real one.

to a certain extent, that is where we are in car design right now. the basic forms…

someone else’s unfinished project, high miles, obscure/low production RENAULT fuel injection system with non-standard diagnostic port....

how can you see the logo through the vape cloud?

sorry, but you are wrong on the motorcycle front.

electric bikes don’t have sufficient range for even a simple saturday ride (at least for me where 250-300 miles is a normal day) much less riding out to my family lake house for vacation week (~400 miles each way). I would have to both plan my route around chargers,…

“the unkillable inline-six has even fewer miles, as it was replaced at around 25,000 due to a cooling jacket rust issue”

calls engine unkillable in the same sentence where he describes how one was killed. never mind the later mention of the “common” CPS failure or the multiple other stories of killed inline sixes he’s…

now throw in some hollandaise sauce and you’ve got a trifecta of confusion.

first of all, Stroll is a solid driver, F3 champ, a couple podiums and a pole. regardless of his father’s wealth, he deserves to be there on talent. _nobody_ gets to F1 without commercial support or rich parents. (see sainz, verstappen, hamilton, lauda, alonso and just about every other F1 driver) in the “good old…

given that big oil is a huge part of the sponsorship package in F1 (Shell, Patronas, Petrobras, PDVSA, Total, Exxon Mobil, Saudi Aramco and many others), getting them on board with this is going to be critical.

one big reason they sponsor F1 today is that they do a ton of research on lubricants and maximizing…

the actual middles of nowhere are in kansas and north dakota.

the geodetic center of the lower 48 states is in about 2 miles NW of lebanon kansas and the geodetic center of north america is 16 miles SW of Rugby ND.

I’ve driven by both and they are truly the middle of bugfuck nowhere.