This post was originally written for Oppositelock, but with the impending death of Kinja user blogs, I’m reposting it here.
So, last time I posted here, I said I’d think about doing a piece on the Toyota/Lexus Multi-Stage THS-II. This is that piece, but I thought I was basically going to do a technical overview, not a rant.
Continue reading “This is a bunch of bullshift. 10 “speeds” of bullshift.”This post was originally written for Oppositelock, but with the impending death of Kinja user blogs, I’m reposting it here.
Last week, Toyota detailed their next-generation powertrains for vehicles on their new architecture. In addition to several new transmissions, they announced a new modular engine family supporting varying cylinder displacements (much like Mazda’s SkyActiv-G family) and cylinder count, and detailed the first variant of that, the 2.5 liter Dynamic Force (what an awful marketing name) engine, which is almost certainly destined for the new Camry.
Continue reading “Holy shit, 41% thermal efficiency out of a gasoline engine”I recently bought an HP OmniBook 430 that needed a system ROM card, which has to be on a linear flash card. Continue reading “Flashing linear flash cards – quick notes”