2018 Civic sport hatchback, no payment. 2006 Dodge ram 1500, no payment. Wife drives a 2019 Highlander and that is around 460. That’s higher than we wanted but we didn’t want to pay it off forever and we came to the table with about 10k down.

It does.  It's understandable that this could be difficult for the car to dicern, but at the same time this is something that has to be ironed out before you put it in the hands of consumers.

Jeep Cherokee with command track.  It was imperfect because of vacuum lines to the front axel, but shifting on the fly without auto locking hubs that exploded like the explorer was a game changer. 

I don't know if they are overrated though because everyone knows that they are as stupid as they were brilliant.  You could put the first Gen viper in the same class

I just laugh at how bad they drive.  The wear and tear is bad but the scrub angle on the front end makes every one of them drive at least as bad as a jeep wrangler

From the manufacturers it’s the size. They are getting harder to load and the weight means bigger heavier everything which means more cost to fix them.

6.7 liters probably means they put a 4" crank in the 360 block. Also, Dodge Dakota’s had a 5.9 liter, not 5.7 from the factory.

Probably a stroker crank.  408 strokers had a 4 inch crank and roughly 6.7 liters.

Late 90s early 2000s GM anything. Parted out a catfish Camaro, I could have saved time just grabbing stuff and pulling lightly, everything that has any kind of snap together fitting just broke in my hands pulling it apart.  My 90s blazer looked nicer than any Chrysler product I have owned but rattled so much it drive…

Subaru.  My wife had an outback.  Joyless to drive, which made the unreliability intolerable.  From stuff like broken wheel studs to the lockup torque converter not unlocking and making the car stall, the cheap plastic on the seat adjustment switch falling off and pushing the buttons full on and causing a battery…

I’m with you on this.  It's pretty black and white who is doing the doughnuts but the other people closing the street could come down to a judgement call.  It seems like if you have property seized by police, getting it back is not as easy as it would seem even after charges are dropped.  

They get hate but I had a sport 2 door 5 speed.  With the dohc 2.0 it was a fun car and the tires were so small you ran out of grip before things got too crazy.

Two of her passengers had previously died of disentery 

Shaving trim, badges, chrome and door handles in the extreme. All these modifications help draw your attention to the lines on the car.

Is it disorganized or is it the fact that they have no incentive to fix the problem? They have a natural Monopoly, it doesn’t matter how much people hate them, small fines and bad pr are probably cheaper than addressing the problems they create. So is lobbying.

True, those arguments always come when someone is knocking a ls or 3rd gen hemi, but they are so compact for their displacement. Overhead cams make a v engine much harder to package.  Also the assumption people make that pushrod engines are crude, I will admit 4 valve overhead can engines can flow huge amounts of air…

My first project I learned all the places you can't cheap out on it seems.  I'm on my third, second in the same car and if it out rubber or holds fluid it has probably been replaced

If it weren't for that myth, there would be virtually no engine swaps

When I was doing a research project for teaching drivers education I saw statistics that mentioned in surveys most drivers had driven drunk a number of times before they got caught.  Most people who are pre disposed to drive drunk are going to do that calculation that they probably won't get caught in that situation. …

I can think of two. The Atlas 6 that they put in mid 2000s blazers. Over the last few years people have discovered thier potential for performance but if they put them in a non throwaway car maybe it would have happened sooner, rather than people looking for a cheap American Barra.