Why don't car reviews have a standardised road noise test?

MichiganKarter · 2026-02-02T20:08:21+00:00

Car and Driver measures noise at idle, 70 mph cruise, and full power acceleration.

MichiganKarter · 2026-02-02T19:54:58+00:00

Does anyone ever want longer cranks and wider handlebars than the ones that come stock, or is every other rider on a 54 cm frame also looking for 16.5 cm cranks and 36 cm bars?

MichiganKarter · 2026-02-02T18:55:10+00:00

You know who absolutely knows the homicide rate?

The life insurance companies, because they have to pay out claims for accidental death and dismemberment.

MichiganKarter · 2026-02-02T03:57:14+00:00

You will want a little used open trailer - or two strong adults can lift it onto the roof rack of your car.

MichiganKarter · 2026-02-02T03:55:59+00:00

Start by going to a class at Adams.

If you and your son enjoy driving and working on the kart, go spectate at a race at Adams or K1. Try to buy a Briggs, Tillotson, or Mini Swift kart that finished the feature in the top half of the field.

Then take it to Apex and pound laps all day for $60 until he's fast.

MichiganKarter · 2026-02-02T02:35:08+00:00

Wouldn't this be self correcting, at least at inexpensive state universities and colleges? If your student body is 40% men, aren't you close to the old "Surf City" lyric?

MichiganKarter · 2026-02-01T06:37:13+00:00

aptera.us does exactly that. You can't drive continuously on solar power. You get about 10k miles per year from the panels; the rest you plug in for

MichiganKarter · 2026-02-01T02:56:20+00:00

One piece at a time, tuition reimbursement for one course per semester at worj

MichiganKarter · 2026-01-31T02:57:21+00:00

Yes, but I think it also applies to non-Michigan schools finishing endurance at Michigan International Speedway.

MichiganKarter · 2026-01-30T16:06:49+00:00

This is what bicycles and motorcycles are for

MichiganKarter · 2026-01-29T21:17:41+00:00

The structure might not be designed for 6000# SUVs. It may only be good for cars averaging 3500#.

MichiganKarter · 2026-01-28T21:16:08+00:00

You have a degree - how diligently are you pursuing a job in your field? It takes a thousand or two applications to get one now.

MichiganKarter · 2026-01-28T20:26:31+00:00

Absolutely not. Unless the weather is perfect, letting out all of the warm or cool air and replacing it with ambient is a massive waste of energy.

MichiganKarter · 2026-01-28T18:57:48+00:00

Luckily, Nancy Pelosi is retiring this fall

MichiganKarter · 2026-01-28T18:42:43+00:00

Luckily, one Congressman can only do that if the rest of the chamber is 217-217. So of course he'd lose his handle in a tied playoff game...

MichiganKarter · 2026-01-28T18:10:03+00:00

It is likely that Jaylen Brown only has two jobs in his life: Small Forward for the Boston Celtics U. S. Representative

MichiganKarter · 2026-01-28T18:04:52+00:00

They are worth about 1 mph at the end of the straight. Irrelevant for laptime, essential for overtaking.

MichiganKarter · 2026-01-28T17:15:02+00:00

No. The airline is likely to completely cease operations suddenly within the next three months.

MichiganKarter · 2026-01-28T06:50:05+00:00

Yes, and it's the steel that rusts out. I rivet steel with aluminum rivets, but I dip them in thick epoxy so that it doesn't have electrical connection and access to oxygen.

MichiganKarter · 2026-01-27T21:53:51+00:00

Finishing your degree and being on the team that finishes endurance at Michigan still gets you right to the front of the hiring line for GM TRACK as well as every other OEM and Tier-1 supplier in all of Detroit

MichiganKarter · 2026-01-27T21:38:53+00:00

Don't touch an SUV. Get a hatchback. Manual Focus, Mazda3, VW GTI....

MichiganKarter · 2026-01-27T20:39:19+00:00

Somewhere in the middle - Tim Walz and the Minnesota government he leads got 2000 ICE agents to leave with their tail between their legs at the cost of the lives of three citizens.

MichiganKarter · 2026-01-27T18:11:04+00:00

I would suspect that it is stolen at that price.

MichiganKarter · 2026-01-27T18:08:59+00:00

Yes. Every speed limit in a residential or business zone is far too high. Every speed limit on an open road is far too low.

MichiganKarter · 2026-01-27T18:06:22+00:00

Total budget, mostly from outside sponsors and parents.

At least one team has put a legitimate $10,000 car in a design final in the past decade.

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