It’s not just the people who bought cars with the bad transmission, my fiesta with a 5 speed manual depreciated remarkably fast, I think in part because people at the time had cars with broken transmission that had been waiting for months for Ford to send parts.

Get the 2002 or later Dakota. The earlier options, despite test numbers were noticably lacking in the braking department. 2002 fixed that. I miss my dak, sold it with 260k miles to a guy who commuted 70 miles a day to work and continued to see the truck on the road for 2 years until I moved across the state. It was a…

Is this car greater than the sum of all it's parts and stats?  

Better to be lucky than good sometimes, although since he is a former champion being both never hurts.

The best kind of correct

Its always hard for me to picture a British car as being retro, as they often had production runs so long that they come in and out of style several times. I think they never get mentioned because everyone always second guesses, “Is it a retro version of an old car, or are they still just making the same car? Oh well,…

I’m waiting for the Civic Type R to say "Hold my beer" and come out with bigger wings on multiple wings.  

Plus crossovers are a way to print money, just ask Jeep.  I can't imagine a bolt crossover not selling well for an electric, however it is 2019

Yeah, the Camaro is so good right now from a performance standpoint and the ZR1 isn't getting much faster with each generation.  I think the right move is to let the Corvette make a move to be faster rather than limit the Camaro.

On the flip side, most of the people I see driving new Corvettes are in the same age as people buying Harley Davidson motorcycles. I think there is a contingent of traditionalists that want a front engine Corvette that are dying off, and then a different group that the Corvette appeals to because if performance for…

I was thinking the same thing. I also get the feeling watching formula drift is about understanding three way the car rotates through the corners, race cars traveling fast have much more subtle movements because if you are driving them like a formula drift car you are probably setting seriously slow lap times.  It…

I have not, but I did watch Ben Hur, the concept seems the same.  The crowning touch has to be that they also do that to the spare tire.

I’m glad I haven’t seen outrageous wheel spacers on the road yet. It is profoundly dangerous but when has that stopped someone with a welder and a dream?  Even smaller half inch spacers put extra stress on wheel studs and suspension.

My only regret is that I have but one star to give for that comment

Who the heck makes a GTO inspired wagon with a 2.56 to 1 rear end?  I understand the need to highway cruise, but it's never the real deal so put an overdrive automatic in it with a minimum 3.55 ring gear and a positrac so the thing can leave it's mark.  This just screams I had all these parts laying around so I bolted…

A couple years ago I got teched by a guy who was rebuilding his mustang because he became airborne when a tire flew off.  He commented that with my closed like nuts and short studs it could happen on my MGB too.  It made sense so I got longer studs and open lugs, I may never know if it made a difference but it is much…

No, because today's Nascar involves one rule change with unintended consequences, then instead of backpedaling they make another rule, often the next week.

I despise flying, my anxiety level raises the day before the trip but my wife is from New York and we live in my homestate of Montana. I rode from whitefish to St cloud once, 24 hours. I say this because despite the three fights with my wife, security, my bodies reaction to stress it’s still better than a trip on the…

I don’t know if the morons should autocross the most. I had to work the course while a guy in a tuned Evo with terrible aftermarket suspension, cheap toyos and the, made the throttle and the and will work it out. Scary as hell, you saw the car twitch and then lurch in a direction.  It was satisfing whopping him in…

I get there same thing in my Honda sport hatch, I honestly think people assume it’s a type r or something. One time was some guy in a WRX while I was with my wife and had my daughter in a car seat.