“white privileged assshole”

Yes, but what if he was wearing a dress?

Boom, headshot.

I’m willing to bet that a lot of you “haha jack the prices up, learn to be more environmentally friendly you plebs” type people giving Fobhopper a hard time about his family dealing with student loan debt would be singing a very different tune if Fobhopper were a single black mother in the ghetto that needed to get to…

Quite some fear mongering Bugger, are you going to give him that bloody nose? Your brother/friend/father?

Why exactly would Russia ever want to conquer/take over Poland or any of the Balkans? As much as you may want to believe, but Russia is not the Soviet Union (cue simpsons GIF), with wholly different geopolitical…

“leading up to subsequent invasion of Georgia...”

I would definitely put money on the Tracker. It’s one thing to just read a spec sheet that made a LR owner feel smug “I COULD ford 35 inches of water, if I really had to.” But with those wheels/tires, this thing is DOA on some redneck’s backwood two-track course. Don’t underestimate a stubby little 4wd with actual…

The “exploding transmissions” criticism can be leveled at older 4Runners as well. On my 3rd gen, an external transmission cooler hat bypassed the radiator was something that I made sure to do, the “strawberrry milkshake of death” is a well known phenomenon in 4Runner circles.

That was my biggest complaint about the Xterra when I test drove a new ‘15 Pro-4X 6 spd last fall. The rear leafpack feels unsettled, and tuned WAY too soft. Apparently they tried to make the truck ride softer to appeal to the regular on-road users, but what ended up happening is ruining payload, and making it…

The story on mine is that I bought it together with a ‘74 TX500 and a spare motor with a friend for $100 all in when I was a sophmore in highschool (2005). Classic case of abused farm bikes that were run to death and then left to rot. No titles. Fixed them up, did some tours in the Northeast, and then did a long cross…

Yeah the middle eastern scarf paired with an ironic(?) American flag make for quite the gittup.

No he’s definitely right. Ask anyone who works on their own cars and keeps an eye on these things. Rust eventually creeps in from the outer edge as well as from the hub side. We’re not talking the flash rust that the pads simply wipe off. This is true deep corrosion. I’ve changed rusted rear rotors (as well as rear…

I always thought that the outgoing Titan in Pro-4X trim was underrated, especially considering how much cheaper the could be had compared to competing half-ton ‘offroad specials.’ Approach angle of 31 degrees(!), departure of 25, something like 11 inches of ground clearance, rear locking diff. The truck as whole may…

So it stayed out of 6th gear then?

My struts were beyond shot when I bought it. i was literally bottoming out on every minor expansion joint on the highway. A terribly crashy, uncontrolled ride. I lucked into Monroe’s summer rebate event and got 4 quick strut assemblies for $340 shipped. Some PB Blaster pre-soaking and a friend’s airtools and a…

I’m in a similar boat with a ‘00 Maxima SE I just scooped up for $1600, mostly to keep salt off my really nice and totally rust free ‘96 4Runner Limited. Kind of ironic to NOT drive a 4wd SUV that I have a set of snow tires for in the winter but oh well! Maxima is a bit rough around the edges, so far I’ve done some…

Many will start to make moaning/groaning sounds, albeit if it’s on a GM, that’s just normal operation :p

Siberia and the Russian Far East is like the ultimate destructive testing environment for old JDMs. My cousin who lives in a small village near Biysk drives a ‘92 Corona 1.8 EX Saloon, a car with well over 300k KM, most of that mileage on Siberian roads. To put that in perspective, I’d but a 3x or 4x multiplier on…

Nice try my salo eating, revisionist friend:

“Antonov was born on 7 February 1906 in Troitsy (now Podolsky District of the Moscow Oblast), Russian Empire. Russian Ethnicity.^[1] In 1912, the Antonovs moved to Saratov, where he attended the non-classical secondary school (now gymnasium №1) and secondary school (now…

Not a good deal at all IMO. I’d rather start with a MUCH cleaner base, a non-PI grandma-special, even better buy a Grand Marquis. For $2400 you could find a cared for example (aero body or whale) with a fraction of the miles. From there, proceed to go nuts with junkyard/aftermarket parts. Pick up some 3.55 cop car…

How is scrapping a ton of perfectly good automobiles any more environmentally sound than just letting them be used?? Consider too that many of those people who did the buyback will now go out and buy a new car, so factor in whatever environmental cost there might be with that as well.

I say start some kind of charity…

“Son, I am disappoint”