Automatic trans— Shit! Read more

The French took them. Read more

Musk owns something like 28 million shares, almost a quarter of the company. If the stock price drops by 1%, his net worth goes down about $40 million Read more

Hooray recycling! Read more

They sold 12,550 at the end of June. At their current rate, they likely have another 6000 on the road. So for 18,550ish cars, 2 fires is 0.012%. in any year a bit over 185,000 cars catch fire in the US. With 250 million registered cars, there is a 0.074% chance that any given car will catch on fire this year. Read more

"Double Lightning Strike Fails To Kill Rodeo Clown At Mud Race"
Nobody has ever, or will ever after today, assemble those words in that order. Read more

if you can drunkenly crash into two walls and a tree and then flee the scene on foot, you are driving a very safe car. Read more

I like it. There should be more spaceship-like wedges on the road. Read more

I think they should keep making the SRT Viper, but also go back to making the Dodge Viper as well. Ditch all the leather and digital touch screen BS, put in some plastic panels and a radio from 1997, and paint it in a tool shed. Read more

Are they letting Elon Musk name their planes now?

After the drop is when the windows blow out Read more

On cars with large sunroofs, reach up and pull down the spring loaded wind deflector at about 35MPH. I did this in a 5 series and thought the side windows were going to blow out.

Surely the fire would self-extinguish at that speed. Read more

Seemingly hyperbolic title. Made up words. There are only a few instances where a writer can get away with these things, and Stadium Trucks doing sweet jumps while racing around an IndyCar street circuit is one of those times. Read more

Leather everything! This is just like the Gen 1/2 which has plastic covered plastic held together (poorly) with plastic clips. Read more

Excellent, well written, and well reasoned article. Read more

I guess you could say he was... Read more

Did they go ape shit with a front end loader on the front of that car to try to get to the fire, or was the "object" the driver hit actually, like, three cows and a brick mailbox? Read more

Nobody ever got a good job through HR, you need to find the managers and send them your resume. It's not too hard these days, just use sites like linkedin to find the manager's names, then assume their email is either [email protected] or [email protected] or just FirstLast@... Best bet is to… Read more

Get some up close pictures of the front suspension, inboard and out, so all the automotive engineers on here can argue about whether it is the worst suspension design they've ever seen, or just the worst since the last Formula Student India competition. Read more