I don’t watch indy really but years(decades ago) ago I happened to watch a few minutes and caught what is by far my favorite indy moment. Two cars were battling for position and it was being shown from a camera over one of the drivers heads. The other car pulls a dick move and almost hits the other car. This allows…

I would buy this in an instant but I’m biased. I had this exact same car, exterior and interior colors, when I was like 20. Mine had the way less cool Mitsubishi motor. It was a rolling joke with me and my friends and had some great times with it. Eventually the transmission let go on the highway one day. I left it…

Reading this headline gave me a case of the mondays.

Yes! Anything that can help downsize the behemoth vehicles that litter our roads I’m down for.

Would have hopped on a plane at any point in the last year. I’m younger, in good health so didn’t worry much about COVID.

A heli-coil is ALWAYS stronger than a bare thread. Here’s my guess as to what happened with your head- When they broke the stud they tried heating it to get it out first. That annealed the aluminum and made much weaker than it was to start. Didn’t matter what you did at that point it was basically cheese and nothing…

YES! It amazes me how much misinformation there is on the interwebs about helicoils. I design Autonomous Underwater Vehicles as my day job. Everything we do in Aluminum gets a helicoil from the get go. It is much, much stronger than a thread in straight aluminum. It also not just the larger diameter that makes it…

My first bike was a Ninja 650 parallel twin. After about a year I got the itch for something “more”. I bought a nice CBR600 to add to the stable. I owned that bike for exactly two months. On paper the CBR made gobs more power. In reality the way the power was delivered made it a much slower bike in the real world.…

how many launch edition buyers do we think are truly qualified to pilot a 1,000hp sub 3 second 0-60 9,000lb vehicle. I’d wager very few. This seems EXTREMELY unsafe to me. I guess as long as no one dies these leaving Cars & Coffee is going to make some great videos.

I think the motor in wheel thing is pretty dead. It adds a ton of unsprung weight making for a crappy riding vehicle. Or maybe you just mean motors out at the corners?

I’m in Texas and the roads here are actually pretty nice.

I live in Austin and the roads are pretty good. I did recently go to central Indiana on a road trip though. My car is lowered but not aggressively and the roads there were brutal. I would not be able to daily my current car there. Driving into parking lots there would be 2-3" lips, lots of giant cracks and potholes.

Very tough. The 7 is #3 on the wikipedia page for worst drag coeffecient of any car made. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automobile_drag_coefficient

I wanted a Caterham for years but couldn’t afford one. A few years ago I decided to build my own from scratch(google locost). I’m ~90% done now. I used a crashed RX-8 as a donor. Total cost for my build is probably around $20k but split up over 4 years is pretty easy to digest. Building the car has been a ton of fun…

Well looks like I won’t be getting rid of my 17 year old Mazda manual trans wagon anytime soon. We’d really like to move into something newer. There are just zero options for manual trans wagons these days with a decent sized back seat for small kids.

Or anything considered to be a Japanese classic. My friend just sold his 85 RX-7 he bought three years ago for $6k for $16k.

2003 Mini Cooper S hands down. Traded in with only 60k on it since I felt like I would be screwing someone over if if I sold it private party. Front shocks blew out, strut towers bent, supercharger bypass valve broke, power steering lines leaked, both front cv joints, both front lower control arm bushings, radiator,…

The Chinese are eventually going to sweep into the low price car segment in the US. At first we’ll all laugh but 10 years or so down the line they’ll be great cars. This will then bite hard into all the companies that ignored that market segment letting them get a foot hold. We’ve seen this with the Japanese and then…

1983 Ford ranger Diesel. All of 55hp. Could barely do 65mph. I also now own a Subaru Kei truck. Stock it was 45hp. I’ve modded it up quite a bit and it now makes ~80hp.

I watched the netflix doc about this guy. Were his actions taking advantage of people? For sure.. but he was just working the system that was there. He saw an opportunity and took it. People didn’t like that he gamed the system to his huge benefit and made him out to be a criminal which I don’t really think he was. Scu…