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My assertion is about them having done it along with going up in engine displacement. Civics and Corollas bread and butter went from 1600cc average in the early 90s to 1800-2000cc+. Smallest Civic non-hybrid engine in the US from 2000 to 2020: 1700cc. Smallest in Europe: 1000cc. Corolla: US -...

And Japanese never realized that you can't castrate and tame small engines ad infinitum and expect Americans to keep buying them. The defense will present exhibit A: the CRX that morphed into the DelSol then into nothing but 20 years of bland civic juice (1999 civic sedan, anyone), with a...

It's very easy... For decently modern normally aspirated gasoline engines, my personal standard is 1.25 pounds per 1cc engine volume. And my idea of decently modern is 90hp and up per 1000cc for cars, 60ish for econo/base/utilitary/specialized vehicles. So ballpark - 4000lb vehicle should end...

They would still fail les often than a modern driver/owner would. We can abuse that dead horse till we get in the news - the electronic monitoring is not the issue. The issue is that it's complementary to the dipstick, not a replacement, for those times when a level measurement is needed with...

Well, threads are meant to be a discussion, or a rant. At least by now we know full well which type that one is. A pitty the original post ends with a question mark, it should end with triple exclamation points.

You will immediately see a warning. You won't have to wait for the oil to get to temp for alerts to come in. Plus, the dealership won't rely on the gauge to get a reading. That one can need up to 100 miles to calibrate after an oil change. They'll just have to take note of what they poured in.

Nah, it's extremely unlikely to go this way. You have orders of magnitude more risk of an engine dying because the owner didn't know that hood on the front opens to begin with, much less that the yellow loopy thingie is not a ripcord for a parachute. An electronic oil level gauge will throw...

The elefant in the room is that in-dash oil level gauges are a great addition to, not a replacement of, the oil dipstick. An in-dash oil level gauge is a wonderful feature for the lazy. An oil dipstick is mandatory for those other times where reality exists. Use case scenarios: - Stranded on...

Not if you can only get it out from underneath...

I'm in CT and my local DMV is usually stellar. NY prior to that wasn't much worse. What state do you live in, do your local government and services get the investment they need ? How are they funded ? I'm all for criticizing bad service, when the means to provide good service were given in the...

Thanks, this would help me timestamp it, my brother visited Cuba when it was open for visiting, must have been a bit under 10 years ago. So would that thing still be good for anything, or should I just keep it as a souvenir?

Once again, you need English to make it to levels which are still way, way too low to make even the slightest blip on that handful of corporations' radar. Gigs, club performances, and any concert outside of own country are things that most of the time benefit from being in English, in an...

I learned French by being dropped in a French school after Christmass in 4th grade. Didn't speak a word. By June, I was part of the 5 from a class of 16 that didn't have to redo the year. The rest were all native French. All I can say is it wasn't easy. On the flip side, I learned English by...

Yep, they claim their French is the purest because it's the classic one, whereas french French has evolved. The jury might be still out on that one, as technically it's the Academie Francaise which decides (or at least - releases "official" guidance) on what new words are in, what has changed in...

Because it's rhythm rhymes with stomping

I stand corrected, and I'm amazed. Undeniably true (and most of it Bosch-developped). However, the Swedes were at the frontlines for lower technology, safety at scale stuff that was easy to pick up by other manufacturers should they have wanted it. And fast to integrate developments made by...

The 5 series that weighs 4000lb was 188 inches. The 5 series that is 200 inches long weighs way north of 5000lb. 200 inches was, incidentally, the length of the long wheelbase 7 series 25 years ago (when 5 series were still 4000lb :))

I knew there were horrors in Canadian schools, but not to such extent... I thought the Canadian prime Minister had explained it in South Park ("...Now, now, the Canadian government has apologized for Bryan Adams on several occasions..."), but little did I know !!! I sympathize.

That one has Russian plates. These cases don't count 😇. After all, the almost totality of the Aixam Megatrack's production (all five or six of them 😊) apparently went to Russia.

Saab is spinning in their grave and Volvo is not far behind.