Apparently blue Volkswagen Golfs are rather susceptible.

I swear there is a better one where the dude lands nearly vertically, but I may be imagining things.

I swear there is a better one where the dude lands nearly vertically, but I may be imagining things.

One of my classmates wrote a short paper about cars, mentioning Toyota's hybrid vehicle, the Preus.

Mathematically, HP = Torque / Time. You can't really say where HP comes from because it's derived from torque and RPM. Torque is the force of the pistons moving down in the cylinders (as he said) and HP is the actual power being generated by the torque force at any given RPM. When the engine is spinning faster, the…

Because while there's nothing wrong with publishing a rumor as a rumor, there is something wrong with publishing fact as a rumor.

Ah, yes. The L62 engine specifically was a bad idea but the concept was later successfully developed. I thought you were using it as an example of the technology rather than an example of an engine.

Sure it was terrible in the 1980s, but now that your refrigerator has more computing power than that ECU, it's coming back to moderate success. Modern Hemi engines do it to get semi-reasonable fuel numbers.

That's just EGR nonsense (which is now pretty reliable) and nothing due to a turbo. I'd rather have a small engine with a turbo than a small engine.

I kind of agree with you there. My car has a power driver's and manual passenger's seat and it's definitely easier to adjust the manual one to be comfortable enough. More choices just invites more indecision. However, once I've adjusted it correctly (which does take weeks of fiddling), I feel better in the driver's…

What car has brake-by-wire? I've never heard of it before. The advantage of hydraulically assisted brakes is there is nearly nothing that can totally remove them. If the car is powered off or just has a complete meltdown, you can stop it if you really need to. As far as I know, Mercedes/Volvo auto-braking just uses…

No modern car's ignition directly powers the starter. Even with an "ignition switch", it's exactly the same circuitry as a button except you turn it instead of push it. It still talks to a computer, it still communicates with a chip inside the key, and all the same stuff can still break (but it very rarely does). How…

A two-stroke engine (like in the aforementioned SAAB) is lubricated by incoming gasoline. When you're coasting, the engine is forced to turn while the throttle is closed, leading to insufficient lubrication. A freewheeling clutch allows the engine to slow down to idle (like you can coast on a bike without pedaling) so…