When playing a game where stealth is important. Also in about 90% of those shitty follow/protect missions where the NPC you have to stay with is moving somewhere between "walk" and "run".

BMWs use stalk-mounted cruise control? News to me. Both available wheel options for my E46 have cruise on the wheel. At least the E38 7s, E39 5s, and E53 X5s all use the same basic wheel.

And make sure that no comment threads can get out of control because no one can find anything beyond the top few posts? Ha. The only form of online community I've seen that's worse to use than Kinja are the ancient perl CGI script forums that behave basically like a mailing list archive, where it's one post per…

Yeah, I'm with you here. There are two dumbasses at fault here, the one dumbass who stopped pointlessly in the middle of the road and the other dumbass who wasn't paying attention to what's in front of them. The guy who couldn't stop is obviously the only one legally to blame, but the other driver is at minimum a…

Yeah, "break down" is a relative term with a Crown Vic. My '93 was basically a drive it 'til it dies beater and I treated it as such, it had a few fluid leaks and basically got topped up whenever the oil pressure gauge would zero around corners or the temp gauge started rising. I blew both coil packs driving through…

Yeah, threaded comments are great when the UI properly shows them, but this is garbage. It's better than the last version, but the whole sideways scrolling thing is entirely crap.

Truth, to some extent. A friend of mine used to have a GTI with the DSG and I took it for a few runs down the drag strip. TCS Off, manual mode, stage, mash the brake, mash the gas, release brake when the last yellow lights, boom perfect launch. Click the shifter a bit short of redline and you're on your way to a…

I'm not sure where you're getting this idea from:

We have a winner. 360 RRoDs are very dependent on the hardware revision. The first-generation products, Xenon (original) and Zephyr (original w/ HDMI for Elite), are pretty much guaranteed to fail.

I'm with you that there are two different kinds of reliable cars, but I define them differently.

Sure a modern computer can run through codes at an immense rate, but that doesn't really help anything since it can only be transmitted so fast. I just checked with my SDR, the data burst from my E46's key fob is approximately 0.35 seconds long. At most three signals can be transmitted per second, and that would be…

It also does this by using an entirely separate second transmission on the front of the engine. Agreed, we probably will never see that in a Subaru.

It's not really that hard to believe, I was a big fan of the older ones and I forgot they were still around too. The new ones aren't really memorable looking, more minivannish than ever while every remaining hint of SUV only makes it look sort of like its sibling Grand Cherokee from a distance. Chrysler clearly…

You're looking at idiots, apparently. My 325i is pretty much a snow tank. Back during one of the big storms in 2011 I was coming back from Chicago and I-80 was covered in snow. Two lanes were heavily used but moving around 20 MPH and the fast lane was basically empty for miles. I pulled in to the empty lane and…

You're right on the second part, FWD is safer when you do crash it's more likely to have been in a straight line understeering off the road rather than spinning wildly.

Here's a tip, since you still don't seem to understand physics: The more the vehicle remains intact in an accident, the more force is transferred to the fleshy meatbags inside. If you hit something with more mass or that is otherwise unwilling to give way to your truck, you will take more of the force than someone…

I can say this is impossible on a 2012 Optima, which has the exact same key and thus presumably has the same keyless system. If the key even exits the vehicle by a foot while it's running the car starts beeping loudly and displays a message in the instrument cluster telling you exactly why. Unless Hyundai…

You can still defeat an anti-lockout system if you're absent-minded enough or determined to be stupid. Usually they won't allow locking the doors from the remote if the keys are in the ignition and at least none of the vehicles available to me right now ('02 325i, '08 Spectra, and '12 Optima) will respond to lock…

You're not understanding this. Sure, in a collision with a smaller vehicle the smaller vehicle will experience more change in velocity. That's simple physics. If you are not the winner by that equation though, let's say a collision with a larger truck, a wall, or anything else that will not give way to your…

Back in the early summer of '05 I had just come back from my first year of college and had been out all day looking for a job.  I got home and decided to go out quad riding with one of the neighbors.  We were fucking around on our "drag strip" (a grass lane alongside the fields that made up half of each of our…