They’re also common on piston engine aircraft that are fitted with a constant speed prop (think of it as plane CVT) as the engine speed will stay pretty much constant leaving the intake manifold pressure as the only direct indication of how hard the engine is working.

Brother-in-law has a C-max. When he proudly gave me a tour of it, I didn’t grab and shake him vigorously as he also has a 2016 Mustang with all the toys. Of course, when he brought over the Mustang, I grabbed him and shook him vigorously.

FIFY

C-max ST

I’m not here for the cars, I’m here to defend the poor blobfish. Did you know at the pressures where they normally reside, they’re actually quite normal looking? It’s only when they’re dragged up to our atmospheric pressure that they fall apart and look ugly...

Oregon eh? I guess they decided to sell their car before it ran out of gas...

Yep! I reverse engineered some broken trim clips for an E30 convertible that were impossible to find online. Printed some new nylon ones, and it’s good as new.

Here’s how a Ford Focus clutch works:

Yay another C-Max owner. Underrated car if you ask me. Mine has far exceeded what the reviewers would have us believe.

I fixed my toilet the same way. $700 and hours constructing the printer well spent.

Fuck, I really need to fix mine. Currently dead in the garage with zero compression in cylinder #2.

X-Bow

You’re tinking of the polaris slingshot

When I read the article I thought of this Bender reference instead:

I daily drive a FC3S AE. Come at me with #rotaryIwouldn’treallycallthemproblemsbecauserotary.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Welcome to the world of #oldnissanproblems. This generation of cars has a unique ability to break the oddest items at the most inopportune time.

We have a slew of Escape’s as company vehicles, a split between the I4 and V6. I agree with your assessment, as a car for driving it’s horrible, but they’ve all hit 200,000mi with no major manufacturing issues and they take a ridiculous beating from several of the people they’ve been assigned to and just keep going. I…

I’m fine with throwback names considering the only alternative these days is some garbage alphanumerical soup.