Ask the Best and Brightest: Road Load Power = Av + Bv2 + Cv3?
Ask the Best and Brightest: Road Load Power = av + bv2 + cv3?
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Ask the Best and Brightest: Are Performance-Related Red Light Camera Contracts Bogus?
Ask the Best and Brightest: Are Performance-Related Red Light Camera Contracts Bogus?
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Ask the Best and Brightest: Pick a Car for My Mom
From TTAC reader Dan: “My mom has owned two cars over the past twenty years: a 1988 Volvo 760 Turbo and a more recent late ’90’s Volvo 960…
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Ask the Best and Brightest: Is There Car Review Star Inflation At TTAC?
A member of the TTAC B&B wrote in to Robert this morning with some unhappy feelings. He feels that stars for cars are going out like free money in the recent…
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TTAC Writing Contest: Does the American Muscle Car Have a Future?
Perusing Motor Trend on the throne, I contemplated angus mackenzie’s rant “the future of the american muscle car.” My first thought: when d…
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Ask the Best and Brightest: Do Hydrogen Injection Systems Work?
Shaker asks:I've been hearing about these systems that use hydrogen added to the intake systems of cars resulting in mileage gains of 20-30 percent. My engin…
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Ask the Best and Brightest, Round 2: Stop Us Before We Buy!
My wife and I have been studiously and dutifully test driving cars because we are about to buy two. So far she is insisting upon the better look, roominess a…
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Ask the Best and Brightest: "Is the Efficiency of Slow Acceleration Just a Myth?"
"What is more fuel efficient for automatic cars, accelerating quickly or slowly? And what is generally peak torque for typical passanger cars and trucks? For…
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Ask the Best and Brightest: "Help Me Find a Decent Sized Coupe, Roadster or Convertible That's Fun to Drive, OK on Gas"
I’m thinking about getting a new car and I’m leaning towards it being a completely non-practical toy. Here’s my situation… A couple…
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Ask the Best and Brightest: Should States Assess Environmental Scores?
Starting with 2009 models, the California Air Resources Board will require all new vehicles sold in the Golden State to carry a sticker which shows a CARB-de…
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Ask the Best and Brightest: Should I Drive My Mustang in the Snow?

How does a Mustang fare in a harsh, North-eastern winter? More specifically, Canada. I only ask because last year, Montreal, where I live, was covered with over 200 inches of snow. I've already done the rear wheel-drive-in-winter thing in my first car. I was behind the wheel of a Chevette with about four hp and two ft.-lbs of torque (slight exaggeration). In other words, it came standard with engine-limited traction control. A buddy of mine tried to negotiate last winter in his Twin Turbo Supra. Fancy snow tires and 200 lbs. of gravel in the trunk still made it the worst winter car in the universe. He ended up buying a Hyundai Accent to get through the season (ouch). True fact: in my entire life, I think I can count on one hand the amount of winterized Mustangs I've seen, complete with ugly black wheels and skinny winter tires. So, do the other Mustang owners who leave theirs in the garage all winter know something I should know?

Porsche GT3 on snow

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Ask the Best and Brightest: What's the Best '03 – '08 3-Series?
A TTAC reader named Don has requested a semi-private audience with our Best and Brightest. Don wants to purchase a used BMW 3-Series. Here's Don's dilemma: "…
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Ask the Best and Brightest: Got Puns?
I love bad puns. This morning, during a lull in the action while we waited for the footware to fall on Slick Rick's press conference, I asked our esteemed pu…
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Ask The Best and Brightest: Is This the World's Ugliest Car?
Yes, I know this, uh, feature was originally posted last month. And I realize I've been dumping on The Detroit News for a couple of days now. But they deserv…
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Ask the Best and Brightest: Which Cars Will Make It?
Edmunds Auto Observer is often the first website to review a new car– in the sense of showering it with love and happiness or, at worst, gumming it to…
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Ask The Best and Brightest: If You Could Ask Bob Lutz Anything…
Yesterday, Cardomain bragged told their tribes that they were having dinner with GM Car Czar Maximum Bob Lutz. They asked readers what questions they shoul…
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Ask The Best And Brightest: Tribeca, Compass, Santa Fe, Highlander, CR-V Or…?
Sharon found TTAC via a Google search, read our Tribeca and Compass reviews and freaked. "We are pretty clueless on car shopping and have spent way too many…
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Ask The Best And Brightest: Yaris or Prius?
From TTAC commentator kawaii: New to this forum and found it interesting, however, confusing since I am a “mature” female on the waiting list for…
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Ask the Best and Brightest: Hot Car for $24 – $28K?
TTAC reader Thomas wants some car advice. Give it to him, please.
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Ask the Best and Brightest: How Many Engines Does GM Need?
In chatting with Lieberman today, it became clear that GM has more engines than it really needs in its U.S. lineup. They also have too many brands, too many…
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Ask the Best and Brightest: Kill Mid-Grade Gas? E85?
From TTAC reader Ian Opp: "With all the talk about gas prices, etc. why is mid grade still being manufactured? I understand that most cars are either biased…
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Hyundai To Launch Luxury Brand; Ridiculous Name to Follow
Hyundai sales executive Young-Key Koo revealed to China Daily (via MotorAuthority) that the Korean carmaker will be spinning off a new luxury brand. The new…
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ATBB: A4 or G35 or CTS for Commuting?
TTAC begins a new, ask the readers feature.
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  • MaintenanceCosts Poorly packaged, oddly proportioned small CUV with an unrefined hybrid powertrain and a luxury-market price? Who wouldn't want it?
  • MaintenanceCosts Who knows whether it rides or handles acceptably or whether it chews up a set of tires in 5000 miles, but we definitely know it has a "mature stance."Sounds like JUST the kind of previous owner you'd want…
  • 28-Cars-Later Nissan will be very fortunate to not be in the Japanese equivalent of Chapter 11 reorganization over the next 36 months, "getting rolling" is a luxury (also, I see what you did there).
  • MaintenanceCosts RAM! RAM! RAM! ...... the child in the crosswalk that you can't see over the hood of this factory-lifted beast.
  • 3-On-The-Tree Yes all the Older Land Cruiser’s and samurai’s have gone up here as well. I’ve taken both vehicle ps on some pretty rough roads exploring old mine shafts etc. I bought mine right before I deployed back in 08 and got it for $4000 and also bought another that is non running for parts, got a complete engine, drive train. The mice love it unfortunately.