Recent content by 14.1 Grms

Except states and countries/blocs are literally banning new ICE vehicles. No, you're not forced to buy an EV (note - even hybrids are coming under the ban rule as not being ZEV), you simply have to deal without owning a car if you don't want an EV. "Oh, oh, but you're still allowed to buy a...

People keep pointing to this as microeconomics and ignoring what sort of macroeconomic precursor it is. Something about the canary in the coal mine. Simple, you just ride your bike everywhere! /s I'd hazard some of the more "ideas and dreams" countries won't change those regulations...

That's a direct result of lobbyists being treated like humans - which they are certainly not - instead of mosquitoes.

There's a lot more to it than just that, but those factors are verboten discussion on here. A classic liberal capitalist (i.e. Jefferson & Co.) believes everyone should have a fair chance to succeed in life. A socialist thinks some people should have a fair life at the expense of the success...

I don't know - outside of here, I haven't really heard people talking about the Cybertruck a lot, and most of the people I work with are easy $200-400k DC/Dulles metro tech people square in the market segment for Tesla. We had four parked out front today, one with paper plates. The Cybertruck...

At $18-20k, I'd hope so...ouch. Going fast is expensive, but fun, but expensive, but fun.

High octane fuel does nothing unless the compression ratio of the engine requires it. Running high octane in a low compression engine is actually ungood, since the fuel doesn't burn completely (octane being the resistance of fuel to compressive detonation) and leaves deposits behind. DI/TDI...

Mostly mid/central state around Elkins. Never been down to run the Hatfield & McCoy stuff but it sounds fun. A lot of the stuff we ride in is either timber or gas company lease property, but it's pretty country, except for those unexpectedly deep skidder track potholes...

Honda by far; learned how to ride (and where not to go) on a 1984 TRX250, and have a 1995 TRX300FW and a 2017 Rubicon. Dead nuts reliable, easy to wrench on, and they always just start and work. I wouldn't mind Honda joining this century and putting a big twin-cylinder into the new Rubicon...

I'd bet more on the very slightly different cultures between San Francisco, CA and TN/TX weighting that decision more. Never really realised Redline was a small company, but only ever really used things other than engine oil from them.

From what I've seen on some diesel forums, the general consensus is it's just a white box Chinese filter with some branding on it. Since Donaldson and Baldwin aren't very expensive, I don't see the point cheaping out on the oil filter for a $10-15k engine.

A minimum of 100 miles a day (commute), but this is in the 2014 Fusion (2.0L turbo DI). The cinder block of a diesel only sees maybe 5,000 a year, if that.

Tesla is just beating everyone to the punch, again. Doing now what everyone else will be doing Q4 2024. Musk the Visionary! To be fair, the US wouldn't have a space program right now without him, although that's a bit off topic.

The 2.0L Ecoboost is actually efficient enough that, going down a hill with no throttle input at interstate speeds, coolant temp will drop at least 20-30 degrees. Highway miles tend to be very easy on it, even in 90-100mph traffic for 30-40 miles on end. That said, half my daily commute is...

240k on mine, 10k OCIs, no catch can, and I don't run top-tier fuel. Weird how I don't have any of the problems that anti-DI proponents constantly crow about. Weird. Idle is dead solid stable, oil analysis comes back great at 10k, doesn't burn oil, 31mpg on long interstate trips. It even has...