Neutral: My Golf is past 220,000 km (136k miles) and it is starting to rust. It drives great but if VW doesn’t offer to warranty the rusting panels, I’m going to be in the market for a new car soon. I’ve mostly decided on a Golf R but those trade hands in Canada for $45k+ so that is out of the question. I’m on the…

Continuing the theme of Ford commercial vehicles, I once drove one of these E350 RVs from Vancouver to Toronto with my sister and her business partner as part of a board game promotion. Ours was liveried up in a purple wrap and powered by the useless Triton V10. It was a nice route though, but I want to do it again in…

The dept had a number of people who were permanent employees, not necessarily on the garbage crew, but who did all kinds of interesting jobs like driving a Jeep to smooth out a baseball diamond, run a construction repair crew (what I did the following summer) and manage a student grass cutting crew. It seemed like a…

For one summer I worked for the Parks and Recreation department during university. I was placed on the garbage crew, so we I spent the summer driving an F-550 garbage truck like below from park to park. Despite the occasional smell it turned out to be a reasonable summer job, since actually removing bags only took…

Is there any truth to what I heard earlier about the Tesla’s time being on a different track configuration?

They should have called it the Mustang EcoBoost SHO

Assuming you’re taking part in a media ride as a taxi type service, I’d be interested in which phases of that trip appear to behave the closest to a human driver. Maybe there’s something that humans do that you never put real thought into until the computer does something different?

I’m not even at GTI level: that’s 2.5L of straight 5 fury!

Reverse: If anyone lives within a few hours drive of Mont Tremblant, I highly recommend giving it a go at an HPDE or track day. It’s quite a roller coaster in even a moderately fast car, as my photo shows. How they raced F1 there way back is amazing.

Just in case you wondered about Ontario drivers, don’t forget that this happened here as well.

I make that 2!

Best I can find is here - https://www.motortrend.ca/en/news/2017-chevrolet-camaro-zl1-first-test-brute-squad-goals/ but I’ve heard more from the MT videos and Jonny L on podcasts

I’m currently reading a book about Tesla (called Ludicrous) and based on their initial prototypes with the Roadster and general engineering organization, I’m not at all surprised that they might have trouble with it, compared a motorsports company making one of the most successful racecar platforms in history.

I think accelerator or throttle pedal will stick. The same way that we “video tape” things on our phone, or “rewind a DVD or video file” (rewind in the sense of go back or maybe that’s just my family)

I guess you lucked out that a Montero and Scout share the same bolt pattern! (what are the odds?)

The follow up to that story is that after the cameras were put away, Randy went back out and ran faster in the auto.

I suppose they’re following the money so I can’t fault them for that. I guess it’s pretty sweet someone is building a car with 300 hp and barn doors.

Still a fun car but a JCW with no manual seems like sacrilege. 

This is the kind of car that is meant to be on Bring a Trailer. If reserve was $38k it might not get there but it could get close. Still CP, though.

This is great to see. When I volunteered a local novice track day, one student was a 70+ year old woman in her nice blue Z4. We were all stoked to see her out and the instructor kept pushing. Fun for all ages!