Idk, the Mazda speed 3 was a fun flavor of sport compact. I think what people miss is the Miata is a modern version of a British sports car. They never were the fastest or best but they were sharp and composed. They could easily add power but it would be off concept and then suddenly the people looking at them are the…

They had the Mazda speed Miata with the turbo but really it didnt fit the concept of the car.  The turbo and the added weight kinda dulls the experience, I think it's part of why the arbath fiat contraption only lasted one generation.  It was the car everyone thought they wanted till they made it and realized it wasn't

I turned 40 this year but it depends on the use. If the plan is to drive it on the roads I think they answer is nothing or upgrading to factory parts from a higher spec. To explore the limits of the car these days you have to drive like a mad man/woman if you are driving in public roads. Sports cars usually get pretty…

It’s not just that it’s more reliable in a emergency, rural areas still don’t have great cell service, like there are seriously places that have very little Internet bandwidth at best. I was in crash and had to go 5 miles down the highway to actually get service to call the highway patrol. The area I live in has…

The from blind zone on all of those is acceptable driving down streets. If your focus is right in front of your hood you are not looking where you should be and wont have much time to avoid a crash. A pillars, small windows and those gm rear view mirrors that are right in my line of sight ahead down the road are the pr…

I teach at a middleschool. At times I have had 60 kids in my classroom with instruments. You couldn’t pay me enough to drive bus.   Every time something like this happens I think,  yeah you can't act that way as an adult in charge of children's safety but...  I can totally understand how it got to this point. 

I think some stuff still carries the stench of who used it. Full stop, I am not going to draw a direct comparison but use an extreme example to illustrate a point. Nazi paraphernalia is something I think should not be sold, traded or collected. Curating it in a museum is preserving history that is dark but has to be…

I love this Gen Dakota and am fixing up a 91 shortbox but...  Rare or not this is a lot of money for one.  I think the appeal is that with rack and pinion steering the 2wd Daks drive pretty well for the era and are kinda like playing with Legos, you can bolt together tons of combinations with small blocks and v6 for…

I love this Gen Dakota, you can mix and match later parts to get different combos but if you drop one in with the 87-90 clip you better upgrade the transmission and go with an electric pusher fan.  But Magnum swaps are stupid easy of you want to keep the ego.

If a district is coming from diesel, with the current emissions equipment they aren’t very reliable. The district I teach at has moved to propane for this reason, side from the fact that most of the time school is cancelled here is because the diesel buses won’t start.

Audio equipment on my 91 blazer. Built an enclosed for the rear, got decent speakers, everything powered by an external amplifier.  I aimed for sound quality over just a thumping around system, spent a couple days of Christmas break building and wiring everything and was really happy with it for a short while.  In the…

Dodge. When I was starting to get interested in cars Dodge was taking chances. The viper, the neon, intrepid, RAM, and Dakota all looked cool and seemed exciting. I was excited when the 3rd Gen hemi came out. When I found old Peterson publishing books about Mopar performance in the 60-70s I appreciated them as an…

I don’t get some of these misconceptions. At 14 pounds of boost turbo engine especially doubles the amount of air for a given displacement. I don’t know what kind of boost these engines run but under power I imagine they are using more than twice their displacement is air and fuel. Under low load it is closer to a 3…

I don’t know if I would put it in my top 5 worst engine in a Chrysler product. The 2.6 and 3.0 sourced from Mitsubishi, the 2.7 in the 90s, the lean burn la V8 s in the mid 70s and world engine are all terrible.  This is coming from a Chrysler guy, or more a former Chrysler guy.  You would have a hard time getting me…

It’s my go to car tire in Montana, especially when you want good grip, decent handling and quiet tires.  I still run snow tires but they are competent the first snow of the season before I put in my steel wheels. If you have a Honda, the quiet Factor seals the deal

I figured the plane but hoped for the Chrysler, or the AMC. I have mixed feelings about both of those cars but it would be funny to see something chronicled as if it was a huge moment that was a car that mostly went to old people.  I owned an intrepid before I destroyed the transmission.

I have been looking for a project car to work on my wife could drive and enjoy and old Jeep wagoneers and scouts were right in the sweet spot for what I wanted to pay until the last couple years. A rough scout in my area was around 5k. Rough as in you probably needed to find a second one before your even started…

add down force and that is the max speed of the car. A Turning, even flat out causes more drag than people realize and that close to top speed the Miata is going to take a long time to recover. If you have any doubt watch in car footage of NASCAR cup cars at Daytona running flat out. They drop speed during much more…

I live in the area. The dealer lost credit through Ford around 20 years ago but still kinda operated for a long time. They had five year old new cars the last time I went in the lot. I heard, because I worked summers at a Napa that the employees were seeking thier own cars there and that made up most of the lot which…

Direct injection is a gift and a curse.  The fact that my civic has 11-1 compression and I think runs up to 14psi of boost on 87 octane is awesome, on the flip side I won't be so happy when I have to have the valves cleaned and for a while I was ending up with about a quart of fuel in the crankcase between oil…