I cannot agree more. We just moved from an incoherent space much like what you describe-years and years of gloaming onto newly-available spaces and punching through the walls-into a new, open-office thing.  I’m not digging it so far, for the reasons you describe.  It’s nice and shiny and new, but I can hear every…

Most places won’t test a car from 197x because of the age.  The difference in pollution is negligible since most of that old stuff didn’t work well when new and is probably shot now.  And, if you’re worried about the pollution, then you just don’t want a classic car, since they all polluted (and coincidentally all new…

The 302 can be easily woken up just by removing all the vacuum and EGR kit that Ford grafted on in an attempt to meet emissions regs.  

The 302 has potential for a ton of power. By the late ‘70s, Ford was deliberately hiding that potential under excessive vacuum lines and the like to meet emissions regs.

Remember, this is the country that sent a girl to prison for posting rap lyrics in remembrance of her deceased friend.

Article stated that the constabulary’s statement said they discovered the video while investigating a different matter.  How that came to pass is an open question.  Mostly I was riffing on the state of the UK right now. 

Nothing new here.  Wasn’t there just a whole scandal about the DPS3 or whatever it was called?  The transmission they stuck into a couple million Focuses and pretended was fine? 

Just a reminder that UK Police would rather sit on the internet looking for people posting spicy memes or speeding videos than doing useful things like addressing knife crime and the like.  

Had a Malibu last year as a rental in Vegas.  At 25,000 miles on smooth desert roads the thing squeaked and rattled, and the carpets were coming up on the passenger side.  I realize rentals get abused, but only 25K and it was already that far gone?  Knocked GM right off my list. 

If we’re being accurate, he hated bankers. He just did that nasty thing where he thought they were all Jewish. He makes that pretty clear in his own words in “My Life and Work.” He had no problem with Jewish folks working the line or doing whatever. It was the class of folks we’d call the One Percent now that he…

Thank you for mentioning the “bumming gas money” point.  I’ve been out of my childhood home for almost 20 years now.  I’m not going to turn up for a visit hat-in-hand because I can’t get home without a boost.  Besides, at 5 miles of range per hour, an afternoon/dinner visit ain’t gonna cut it anyway. 

Stopping for an hour’s rest on a 300 mile trip? Are you serious? 300 miles in IS the stop point for a rest. That’s 4 hours in.  That’s meal and stretch time.  2 hours in is pee and gas time-10 minutes tops. 

“Well, first and foremost, how often do you take drives over 200 miles in a single day?”

Neutral: Minimum range is 200+.

Even with engines designed way back in the time, constant improvements over the years, not the least of which was fuel injection, made them stalwart troopers. The GM 350 and the Ford Windsor 5.0 come immediately to mind. I mean, the Ford Windsor 5.0/302 was released in like, the early 1960s and saw service into the…

Back in the time of carbureted engines, gas washing the oil out of the cylinders was a real and frequent occurrence. Between that, the much looser tolerances in manufacturing (leading to increased piston slap, poorer lubrication from weaker oil pressures, etc.), poorer-quality oils, and weaker alloys, power loss was…

So Ford just can’t figure out how to calibrate it across their model range then? My husband’s Fusion (2017) is the opposite.  I tend to hug the line on the driver’s side anyway, but if I get even close to the line the car tries to intervene.  What you’re describing sounds like more appropriate than what I’ve…

My husband’s Fusion has a lane-keeping feature that I positively detest and turn off immediately. I find it too finicky and sensitive-perhaps it’s that I don’t drive his car every day, but if I’m still in my line and only close to the line, that’s too early for intervention in my opinion. If I’ve crossed the line…

Neutral: My husband’s Fusion has a lane-keeping feature that I positively detest and turn off immediately. I find it too finicky and sensitive-perhaps it’s that I don’t drive his car every day, but if I’m still in my line and only close to the line, that’s too early for intervention in my opinion. If I’ve crossed the…

And thank you.