I have to ask how you determine the relative running costs for these things. Do you just walk into a bentley dealership and ask them about various common maintenance issues with the car? I really hope you do this instead of just scouring forums.

The real question here is whether or not the engine is in the front or in the back where it belongs.

I’m actually kind of excited for a diesel mustang...

I think this could be really interesting. Imagine the algorithms for getting a car to pass another. How one car might shove it’s way into another car’s line. What if one car is more capable of handling hitting curbs and can use more of the track? How would an autonomous car block? Imagine a pack of cars with no reason…

One thing to consider is that if there is a large movement to autonomous cars, the overall fleet size will have to reduce. If you have an urban fleet of 1M cars for a city that will go down to a fleet of 200K over the course of five years, that will equate to 800K in lost sales for that period, even if you buy at the…

I really like my dart. Full disclosure, I work for FCA but I have always hated the culture of buy what you build. I bought the dart so I wouldn’t have to worry about where I parked. That said, I am so very glad that I did. While it’s not the biggest car, it’s big enough for 4 people and luggage. It’s not the fastest…

I’ll never forget the time in high school when some kid said something wasn’t what a real man would do. My teacher (lady must have been in her 70's) told him that a real man doesn’t worry about what people think real men do. That concept has meant so much for me and helped me become the person I am today.

Torch, this article kills it. I think this is possibly the best summation of why gearheads drive that I have ever read. It really hits home for me both because I distinctly remember shifting for my mom in our old family accord when I was about four, and because my dad and I proved that an FD can in fact fit a third…

I’m disappointed there wasn’t anything about the Touareg in this article. You’re slacking Doug.

I remember one time a few years back that I drove down to UVA from PA to visit my gf of the time for valentines day. The route down there cut through a bunch of two lane highways cutting through rural parts of PA, MD, WV, and VA. Going down, the roads were clear, but when I left the snow had just started coming down.…

There’s actually another issue with this; people who don’t work for the company. I work for one of the big 2.5 as a manufacturing engineer, and this involves working a lot with vendors bringing in new machines. Now these vendors often bring in people from oversees to get the machines set up who may or may not know…

It was a punishment for getting black flags. They made you attach the flag before they let you back on the track.

It was slow. Oh so slow. But glorious nevertheless.

It’s kind of like this. You need 100 steel plates with a very specific sized hole in it. You can buy a specific drill bit to make this hole exactly the right size 100 times for $1000. This will cost you $10 per part. However, there is a company in Italy that already makes thousands of those steel plates with the same…

Our 1995 Trans Sport is awesome.

This one seems like it would really come down to a test drive.

I don’t feel like researching it, but I, Robot explores some of these briefly. For instance, I think the change will lead to more scenes like the end of the Fast and the Furious where people are jumping about from car to car.

3rd Gear: Why don’t we just wait until they review all the cases? As much as I love to beat on GM, it’s not like they’ve killed 10 people in the last few months. Releasing the new figures each week makes it seem like there’s a major uptick in the death rate to anybody who doesn’t read through the details

Tracknutz don't have to sway.