Unasked, the French rail company Alstom built a heavy-haul locomotive for the US market to compete against GE and EMD. This is a shocking level of investment. Anyway, they did it. Produced a handful of prototypes. Folks gamely agreed to pop them into consists and test them. They were literally torn apart through… Read more

Well, that’s what it’s supposed to do, but what actually happens: Read more

So why have I scrimped and saved for 20 years, have sizeable finances and a good career, and yet now post COVID I’ve sold my m3 and my 997 turbo and I drive a beat up honda odyssey minivan and a ‘19 jeep wrangler. Read more

The only consistent advice I’ve seen across multiple sources is your best bet is to buy consistently at stations that sell Top Tier rated fuel. Google it to see the names. Read more

Primary factor is age of the underground storage tanks (USTs), which you won’t be able to find out without pulling permits and other specialist data, and quality of the installation, which you won’t be able to learn until the system fails. I have family in the hydrogeology and remediation fields, and some of the fuel s… Read more

Even out here in Europe you can notice the difference between what we call “white pump” fuel, meaning cheap no-name fuel, and brand name (Shell, BP, Total, Esso, etc.) fuel. Read more

I’ve seen some diesel pickup owners drop a bottle of ATF the tank, which they claim can help lubricate the pump. Not sure if this is a good or a bad thing. Any facts would be helpful.  Read more

does it depend on where you’re buying fuel? I always hear mechanics recommending that you only fuel up at major chains vs. no-name stations Read more

“failure rate of around 7 percent in the U.S., compared to 1 percent in Europe” Read more

I can go more into detail about it later, but I don’t believe the issue is lack of lubricity. Water seems to be the issue and is why the CP3 pump had no issues, but the CP4 had issues. If lubricity was a concern, the CP3 wouldn’t regularly make it more than 10,000 hours in off road applications(cranes, gen sets,… Read more

One of Ringo Starr’s finest performances.

Here here. I have a 2019 Model 3 LR. It runs high 12s in the quarter and it’s my commuter car. Read more

That it is. My last half-dozen new cars could have been lifted straight off the doodles in the margins of my high school chemistry book. Read more

I wonder what happens if you mix EU cola and EU diesel Read more

As someone who teaches EFI systems and diag, I can tell you that a good chunk of my job is explaining how utterly shit the US fuel infrastructure really is. Read more

That dude driving gets tons of chix. Read more

This has been a well known issue for a while. When I had my Audi A3 Scandalwagen I put a diesel fuel additive (Stanadyne) in every single tank specifically for the lubricity enhancing properties. Read more

hey now, ford replaced it with a filter that get’s clogged and needs to be replaced every two years! Read more

no matter which brands you love or hate, it is an astonishing time to be a car fan Read more

So let me get this straight: Read more