Appeals to fact and logic are when you use data and evidence to argue your position, not drawing conclusions based on things that you assume to be true and don’t provide evidence to support. Also, if you’re interested any semblance of a meaningful discussion, your second sentence isn’t exactly helping.

This has been explained many times in many comment threads, but I’ll reiterate: The long and short of it is that electric cars are, when emissions from production of batteries and power plants are all worked out, still emit significantly less CO2 than traditional ICE cars. One of the big reasons for this is that ICE…

Prime manual swap candidate(s) if you can find a suitable donor or two. Apart from that rust it looks to be in very good shape, so get that taken care of with the money you’ll make from selling the second one and you’ll have a fantastic DD for a very reasonable price (alternatively, sell the first one to fund a paint…

If it was a Lexus 1UZ swap w/ 5-speed, I’d consider it a nice price for maybe half as much. For this? Might as well buy something that the engine was intended for for far cheaper. CP.

I’m sure it’s happened at least once that some hapless bystander has misinterpreted friendly car banter between friends as a disturbingly casual discussion about violence against transgendered people:

Jeez. He’s obviously never driven one with a turbo.

I drive a Volvo 240 wagon, and kinda, yeah. A large part of the attraction for me was the simplicity and lack of flashiness, while still being well-made and reasonably interesting. It’s great in that most people who don’t care about cars wouldn’t give it a second look, but it brings enthusiasts out of the woodwork…

I’ve heard bad things about the feel of the R154, that it was clunky and truck-like. How do you find the Solstice transmission’s feel?

While I would’t flip it the bird because I try not to be a jerk to people I’ve never met, a vehicle like this is the embodiment of “Hey! Look at me! I need everyone to understand and appreciate that I don’t care what anyone thinks of me, so let me do/wear something obscene or tasteless in public to prove it! I don’t…

My dad is a mechanical engineer and a Prius owner (has owned 3 since 2004), and is definitely an efficiency and technology enthusiast. I remember when they first got a 3D printer at his office, many years back, one of the first things he made with it was a working miniature model of the Prius’s planetary gear CVT.…

“Nissan SR20 engines”, no less.

Or when Johnny Chan gets all angry at that guy because there are Nissan SR20 motors missing from the engine bays of a bunch of Civics.

As long as there’s no rust, NP all day. These are getting hard to find with a stick for any reasonable price. First order of business would be sell off the old mill and replace it with a B230FT late of a 740/940 Turbo or the V8/straight-6 of your choice, but once that’s taken care of you’ll be left with a very fun and…

Issigonis and BMW were happy to keep the Mini in its original role indefinitely

See, the thing is, Muslims are a diverse bunch. For every radical extremist, there are hundreds of Muslims that harbour no ill intent towards anyone in the west. I’m Canadian, and there are lots of Muslim immigrants that live in my city. They’re considered by the vast majority to be just as Canadian as any of us and…

You are literally advocating genocide. I’ll just let that sink in for a moment.

Like I said in my post, a scorched-earth solution like that would likely make matters worse, as it would just increase anti-West sentiment among the world’s Arab & Muslim populations and make future attacks all the more likely. Think of how effective a recruiting tool a policy like that would be for the barbarians…

Religious extremists are dangerous, yes, and I doubt anybody’s suggesting that we be more welcoming and accepting of them. The problem is that it’s hard to determine who’s an extremist and who’s not because people can lie, so barring costly background checks that are sure to miss the people who’ve been careful (the…

Words cannot describe how much this video has made my day. Thank you for this.

Depends on what you mean by “city”, since mine is on the smaller side (~300 000 residents) and the congestion is quite low outside of rush hour, but I have great fun zipping around the metro area in my stick shift car. Since it’s a pretty slow car, I can apply throttle liberally and feel like I’m going quite fast…