Still waiting on the VW 412 series. Read more

Rockburner is right about the SRX-6. That big thumper needs to have the full weight of a human being kick it like it means business. And it’s finicky about how it likes to be kicked too. Not hard to learn. But it’s definitely a learned skill. Read more

I had one of these. You could start it rolling down a long hill, but the compression on that thumper is so high, the tire just skids if you aren’t sitting on it. It’s way easier to learn how to do the cold kick-start ritual than to try something like that. And you have to be very careful between initial start up and… Read more

It’s safer to take corners (inertia), easier to stop (inertia again), and better on fuel (inertia for a third time). Read more

You apparently have no idea who Colin Chapman was. Lighter is safer, because you can get out of the way. Read more

Only the hybrid Camry.  And it weighs 3595 lbs. Look it up. Read more

I’ll take my old Tercel with it’s 43 MPG, and brew up my own juice for it at home in the basement with electric power. There are always alternatives. Read more

This guy takes the phrase ‘nut case’ to a whole new level. Read more

Seconded. Read more

It was killed because people finally got tired of lame badge engineering. This isn’t some kind of mystery. I went and looked at one, and compared it to the Bravada, which was also a badge engineering train wreck, and thought to myself, “If you were TRYING to kill a brand, this is how you’d do it.” Read more

Meat’s far too expensive for this to last very long. Read more

I was wondering when some would ask “What the F?”  Read more

In a few more years, it will be illegal to drive them in Europe. Read more

It was, and is, a poor imitation of a real sedan delivery. And as such, it is a shadow of the real thing upon which it was modeled. Read more

How’s that VW 412 project coming along, Mercedes? Read more

Yeah, I know. The latest iteration of the Salton Sea is man made. But that depression has been variously flooded on and off on a geological time scale many times previously. Using the local geothermal energy to harvest lithium and produce power seems like a great idea to bring economic activity to an area which needs… Read more

You do realize your statement is a ‘no true Scotsman’ fallacy, right? Read more

Me too. I think it is the perfect place to do it too, since the environment there is pretty human-destroyed already. Mining might actually improve things. Read more

There’s a certain amunt of muscle memory that you have to deal with when you go from manual to automatic...