the Patriots are back from the grave. if Pittsburg loses tonight, the Pats will be in 6th in the AFC, leading the pack for the second wildcard spot.

Mac Jones didn’t have a great game, but he had a good enough game.  looks like 4 of the remaining 8 games are very winnable and a couple are possibles.  making the…

nah, we’ll just hire a saudi crown prince...

snow tires wouldn’t have done a thing. he was high centered with an open diff.

in fact, a large % of the improvement in oils (both synthetic, dino and blend) over the last 40 years are down to reductions in impurities and improving heat tolerance.

turbos used to have a huge rep for coking the oil in the bearings on engine shutdown.  over time they developed strategies to mitigate that issue, both…

get the heavy duty tow kit with the LSD for another $800

had a nissan rogue as a rental recently. it was... fine. it did everything I asked it to, it was reasonably comfortable, the CVT was not awful (as in other than my initial reaction “crap, a CVT” I never actually thought about it the rest of the trip, it was pretty invisible. it got decent gas mileage etc...

the only…

PM is a measure of particulates, which is only applied to diesel engines, so your statement makes no sense.

no way any diesel produces less sulphur than a gas engine.

and the regulations are specifically gamed to allow larger vehicles to produce larger quantities of pollutants and gamed for diesels to be allowed to…

there are certain weather conditions where ABS does lengthen stopping distances vs locking them up.  but you have better control of the overall vehicle with ABS even in those rare conditions.

that oil changes are needed at all!  that is just Big Oil perpetuating their profits!  I heard they bought out the patent for perpetual oil to keep it from coming to the market.  just like they did with the water carburetor and the 100 mpg carburetor.

not sure if this is apocryphal or not, but the story with the first gen Acelas being horrifically unreliable was down to the tracks.

the train builder had tested the trains on the worst tracks they could find in england and passed with flying colors.  6 months on the US tracks and the wheels started falling off.

If trucks were held to the same standards as passenger cars they would be dead in trucks too.

there is not a straight line on that whole car.

the hood looks pushed in in the center front, every front end element is kittywampus. the rear suspension is sagging a good 3"

but at $3500 (and assuming $2700 cash on the hood gets it done) not a bad beater.  go to a junkyard and get a cheby v6 or v8 and drop it in to…

? what camaro?

so he’s a time traveler. good to know.

the basis for the law is to encourage landowners to not shut their land to off road users.

NH has very pro-community use property laws (you have to explicitly post no trespassing/hunting etc or else it is permitted).  keeping the dirt bikes, snowmobiles and quads quiet helps keep a lot of land open.

he’s gotta be in his mid 60's now, right?  I mean MTV ceased to be a thing back in ~’82 and he was at least 21 for that show.

are we going to acknowledge the real problem here... Vertical Video?

don’t most modern desert race cars (dakar type) have AC?  they have those big ass hoses they connect to the driver’s helmet, are you telling me they are pumping 120 degree air into the helmets?

new hampshire has a very simple and effective law for this for off road vehicles (dirtbikes, quads etc) - you are not allowed to modify the stock exhaust at all.

kind of violates the whole cheap ethos. the motor itself ain’t so bad ($3900) but the battery pack and controller are going to be $10k