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The Stig climbs aboard Batman's Tumbler {Autoblog}
Jul 8th 2008 6:00PM Was going to point out the same from seeing it cross either Digg or Jalopnik earlier, can't recall which. The helmet doesn't look right for Stig, and of course the date is wrong.
Let's give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that they were just emailed the picture by itself without a link to the flickr gallery.
Camaros, turbos, mpgs and the underappreciated V8 {Autoblog}
May 19th 2008 6:31PM So they just want the appearance. A V8 is part of what defined the American muscle car, and it seems pointless to buy a muscle car without what gives it the reputation. It doesn't have to be the absolute hottest V8 you can get for the car, but to get it with something less just seems to damage the very image that put the cars where they are today.
Camaros, turbos, mpgs and the underappreciated V8 {Autoblog}
May 18th 2008 8:15PM So. The General kills the Camaro. Fans are outraged and throw enough of a tantrum that they bring it back. Lesson learned? GM Fans like their Camaros very much, and you shouldn't mess with fans for you lose their loyalty.
So, what thought should cross the minds of Sales when they're tossing around an idea like putting a 2 liter 4 banger in the Camaro? You know, something that would essentially ruin the "muscle" image of the vehicle. After they just brought it back because their customers demanded it. Perhaps... "don't" comes to mind? Perhaps "brand suicide?"
Seriously, someone already quoted Hammond on the equal of my own opinion. Every time I see a newer Mustang with only two headlights and 16" rims, I shake my head. Or a previous generation with only one tailpipe coming out the back. I'm a car nut, I know what those signs mean. They mean there's a V6 under the hood.
What is the point of buying an American Muscle Car/Sports Coupe with a V6? Gas? If you're so worried about the cost to fill your tank, why are you looking at a sports car?! Buy a four door or a compact and do it right. Insurance? Again, the same answer. If you're going to spend the money, then go big or go home.
It's like buying a Big Mac/Triple Stacker with a Diet Coke. You're getting something that you KNOW is wasteful and tossing a sop to your conscience by getting a low calorie drink. It's just plain stupid. Either abuse your health by going whole hog... or don't and get a salad. The same could be said with how the green movement is acting these days. "Oh, I bought all these carbon credits to offset the impact of my private jet." Which doesn't change the fact that you just created more polution in ONE TRIP than the average family does in three years. Be green and eco-friendly, or don't.
If someone at GM is reading this, let me boil it down for you. This is a stupid idea. I have very little respect for you at the moment over some of your other decisions in your line-up. This will just give me one more reason to never buy a new GM product, ever. Just don't do it. Just don't. "They're going to laugh at you!"
Tankonempty.com: How far past the slash can you go? {Autoblog}
May 7th 2008 9:41PM Read your owner's manual. Most will tell you how many gallons remain when your low fuel light comes on, or when the gauge reads E. If I recall correctly, the '01 Focus Sedan has 3 gallons left, and that seemed fairly standard.
In an '02 Stratus Sedan with the long-travel 16 gallon tank, I can confirm your low fuel light comes on at about 3 gallons, since I put 13 back in the one time I let it come on.
Calculate your gas mileage accordingly.
eBay find of the day: All-terrain PT Bruiser {Autoblog}
Apr 9th 2008 7:20PM You make that joke now. I wish I could remember the magazine or garage involved, but I remember my father showing me an article. In it, it discussed a garage owner near Syracuse, NY building a Ford Coupe. And he'd already finished most of the work on the Hemi he wanted to put into it. Can't remember the displacement, almost think it was a 427.
It was an aside in the article that until the project car was ready, his son had installed the Hemi into his own PT Cruiser, complete with cut-out hood for the blower. The mind boggles over it, which is why I wish I could remember where I had seen it to confirm my memory of the article. Or at least find out where the garage is for some lazy weekend.
Downloadable content comes to the NES, sort of {Engadget}
Apr 8th 2008 12:50PM "just imagine what your 1980s self would have thought of it."
"What the hell is this you ess bee stuff? And I need WHICH version of Windows? Will that run on a Tandy 286?"
Ask Autoblog: How are Michigan roads made? {Autoblog}
Mar 10th 2008 9:16PM Isn't there a joke credited to Jeff Foxworthy along the lines of "You might be from upstate New York if you're happy it snows 'cuz it fills in all the potholes?"
Majority of women, men swap gender in MMOs {Joystiq}
Mar 4th 2008 8:54PM I invite people to please remember to interprete data themselves instead of being fed the information.
The study posted a link in the off topic forums of Allakhazam, eqvault.ign.com, womengamers.com, and white-wolf.com. They pull their results from 119 subjects.
The "women only" website is going to affect results. Additionally, with a sample size that small, you have what's called a "margin of error." Bigger samples make for numbers that better reflect the truth. Additionally, how honest are people going to be clicking a link in an off-topic discussion forum?
12-year-old "Magneto Man" breaks every computer he touches {Engadget}
Mar 3rd 2008 7:42AM Adding up all the comments, sounds like the kid has StickyKeys turned on in his profile and everybody's too computer-illiterate to realize it. Somebody wail on his shift key 5 times and turn it off.
TRENDnet's 300Mbps Wireless Easy-N-Upgrader won't put your router out of a job {Engadget}
Feb 6th 2008 7:54AM @scott
Linksys' BEFSR41, their bread and butter wired router and most likely router to be purchased by Joe Sixpack: 10/100.
Linksys' WRT150N, one of their Draft-N routers and certainly more expensive than a WRT54G: 10/100.
Dlink's WBR-1310, a fairly run of the mill 802.11G router: Not clearly listed, but 802.3u means 10/100.
Netgear's WGR614, another run of the mill 802.11g router: 10/100.
What I'm getting at here is that most modern routers DO NOT support gigabit ethernet, unless you're buying higher end network equipment. If you're just buying the standard unit for around $50-70, you're only getting 10/100. And you know what? That's fine. Gigabit ethernet won't provide a tangable difference for the common user. Where-as this product is blatently aimed at making the average person think "Oh, this way I can get the fastest wireless without buying that $120 router over there. What a deal!" But they don't even realize that their ethernet port isn't fast enough to match the access-point-with-a-pretty-name.
Intentional deception by hardware manufacturers.
