Ford’s cruise control system. My ‘97 and ‘06 E150s were this way as is my ‘00 Excursion. Why do I need the ability to turn cruise control as a feature on and off? How about you just stay on all the time, ready at a moment’s notice for me to press that little “Set” button that tells you I want to maintain this speed?…

This one might be slightly better since it’s the pre-Bluetec model, but Mercedes-Benz had a bit of a quandary when they built the OM642: Either they could use an oil that was really good at keeping metal bits from wearing on each other OR they could use an oil that didn’t foul the DPF.

I had just bought a ‘93 Itasca class A motorhome. I had just gotten it home and the plan was to change the fluids, take it to the county clerk’s office for plates, and two days later embark on a 2,000+ mile journey to visit my wife’s family in Oklahoma. The engine is a TBI 454 that takes something like 7 quarts of…

While there were cars in front of Udell, he started P3 in GT Cup, I believe, so he had plenty reason to get through that before the other Porsches in GTC to have a better position when the yellow was deployed.

To Raphael: He's not local. In fact, because the muffler was too loud and he would have been deafened by the time he got hom, I put his car on my trailer and he followed my in my gutted-out Neon with rally tires all the way back to north east Ohio. I dropped his car off there and then put the Neon on the trailer for…