Must be a Diesel. Did Mercedes put a turbo in a non-Diesel? They seemed to only use superchargers for the AMG models.
Mercedes has used the occasional turbo, but only on very rare cars... diesels aside. So yeah, it's a diesel. 1982 300SD. Runs like a top, but it does have a bit of a leak yet. It had many more, but I fixed those.
The joke is that cars have optimistic speedometers to make owners feel like they are faster, and they give up usability for "My speedometer goes up to 11".
I just like being snarky. I get the idea. I far prefer a big center-mounted analog tach with a digital speedo off to the left, as I've said elsewhere in this thread. Everything else can be sprinkled about as necessary. I did actually use the oil pressure gauge in the Mercedes today, though... I really need a new wastegate diaphragm.
So you think criminals should be able to drive people around? Sorry many don't agree.
It doesn't matter what they agree with, I know two women who have been raped by licensed taxi drivers, taxi licenses don't prevent crime, stop repeating that idiocy.
Most taxi inspections are based on months between inspections. It is very easy to see a sticker and ensure that the taxi has been properly inspected. It is very difficult to do that based on mileage.
No, no it isn't. Put a date and a number of miles on the sticker.
Professional licenses have a higher standard than standard licenses. They also require the training to do a proper daily pre-trip inspection.
The amazingly shitty experiences I've had in amazingly shitty taxis disagree
It needs to be huge because the 0-200 mph speedos (if it's on your speedo, your car can do it, right?)
No, my car will only do 178. And for that, I need different wheels+tires, and the missing plastic belly pan.
I rely on my night vision to spot animals and people at the side of the road. It doesn't matter how good my headlights are (as long as they are legal), they will not help me do that.
Of course they will. Headlights are meant to spread light to the sides. Any decent ones will do that. Even the Hella H4 sealed beam replacements have lenses that do that. Just make sure you get the right ones for which side you drive on...
But how many US pilots have been in an actual dogfight since, say WWII. Most wars these days are no longer in the air, no large nations are fighting each other and ISIS doesn't have the capacity to fly an F16-like aircraft. Even during the Cold War, the most action was recon missions in enemy airspace which went largely unnoticed.
Well, a Tomcat splashed some Libyan MIGs that decided to come out and play when we crossed the Line of Death.
fighters do to new, unique maneuver ability.
Col. Boyd must be turning over in his grave. Looks like the USAF is buying another very expensive crew bus...
it would seem the defendant(s) would have a pretty good defense if they can show receipts for rework, notices of failed inspections, proof of injury to the daughter and the resultant investigation, etc
Absolutely correct. On the other hand, if, as the owner suspects, they have none of those things, they'd better try to settle as fast as they can!
If they are one person as the owner suspects I highly doubt they have them and should be talking to a lawyer about crafting a settlement, a you point out.
Also, why do we care what a former biologist, now sci/tech article writer for the WSJ has to say about technology-related education? Is there some connection that I'm missing?
Wall Street dreams of coding to become yet another minimum-wage unskilled job. It probably will, simply because coding isn't all that difficult, just tedious, and as computers continue getting everywhere programming will ultimately become like literacy is now.
Google, of course. Any DNS sizable enough to trust is likely to be a tool of the state, but at least Google is competent.
I live in the middle of nowhere so I can get away with it to some extent but I still am much more attentive and even tend to change my driving position before doing so.
that's why these cars have three or four seating positions, right? One for me, one more for me, and if there's any left then maybe I'll let someone else have one... but I'm going to also need a backup of my primary settings in case someone craps on them
Even the multi-function displays in the middle of the instrument panels on *all* cars made in the last three or four years is too much.
The MFD in the middle of my 1997 Audi A8 (from which all other MFDs today are descended, it seems... esp. in VAG-land) is no more distracting than the MFD which was in the middle of my 1980 280ZX, but it's actually useful because it does more than just show me system status during the POST. It then provides the trip computer. If I had infotainment then it would show me tracks. If I used FM it would show me radio stations. But since I don't do either it only shows me driving-related information; MPG and the like.
I only find the center MFD design to be stupid for sports cars. The tacho belongs there, damn it! But they could still have a MFD off to the side opposite the speedo.
I hate dial meters. I wish they'd die a horrible, gruesome death.
That's because you're not a driver. You're a passenger behind the wheel. If you were a driver, you'd like dials. Maybe not so much for the speedo; you don't need to see how fast you're going faster than you can read a number. But in a driver's car, the front-and-center-mounted tachometer needle is absolutely critical. You can't function without it.
With that said, I like the idea of self-driving cars, and of being able to be a passenger myself. But as long as I'm driving, I like to really drive. Also, note that I have literally never owned a vehicle with a center-mounted tach. I did get a gauge cluster with that for my 240SX, but I never got the cabling to install it and then I sold the car. Still have the cluster, want to use it with my PC for racing sims. Sooner or later I'll figure out how to drive it, I have too many projects already. I've ticked off some minor ones recently, though, so there's hope.
The color bar tachs take up too much space. If you make them big enough to have any resolution worth mentioning, they are massive. That is stupid. One good-sized dial tach and a medium-sized digital speed off to the left of it is my ideal layout, obviously with oil pressure, water temperature, and a real live voltage gauge next to it, plus boost when applicable. That tells me everything I need to know, and right now.
A Nintendo-style controller would suit me fine.
No, no it would not. Nintendo games don't model the road. If you tried it, you would be very sad very quickly.
There is debate with chemical fact?
Facts are useless if you don't comprehend their relevance. While you drive down the road, it's normal for your night vision to be impaired anyway due to reflections, oncoming traffic, stationary light sources...
That is not up for debate; it is simple and pure chemistry.
The world is neither simple nor pure. If you wanted simplicity and purity, you should have become a theoretical mathematician. Applied arts feature complexities.
Only display that which needs immediate attention.
Yeah, Saab used to put a "night switch" into their cars to dim the lights. Saab who, you say?
I think there's a world market for about five computers. -- attr. Thomas J. Watson (Chairman of the Board, IBM), 1943
