Forget the swap. Put the 4.6 on Craigslist, and just get a 1st gen CTS-V. Very fast, very comfortable, and big and safe. Mom will love it. You can find one at $10K, but at $15K you can get a very nice one. And considering you won’t be paying for an engine swap, that will be money well spent.

Wait, what? The interior of the Tacoma is NOTHING like the 2nd gen. Toyota spent a lot of time on the body and interior of the 3rd gen Tacoma. Did they put the same effort into the drivetrain, suspension, and chassis? Oh definitely not. But to say the 2015+ Tacoma hasn;t had an honest refresh is just plain wrong. I’ve…

Google rooked me and gave me the MSRP of a V6, not an SS. Grrrr...Kind of ruins part of my argument.

I liked driving the Frontier. But I ended up going with the Tacoma, partly because I got employee pricing (Toyota treats its suppliers well) so I could afford a TRD model, but partly because that TRD model was much better equipped than the Pro-4X Frontier at the same price (with the discount factored in). Even at…

The problem is you’re getting wall jobbed with value. I found this out shopping mid-sized trucks. Sure, the Frontier was the cheapest by far, but when you factor in all of the extra stuff you get as standard on the Tacoma, Colorado/Canyon, and the Ridgeline, the Frontier becomes a major loser. This is most apparent in…

Wait you mean I don’t need oxycodone for my stubbed toe?

I once went to Leon’s Auto Parts in Leon, VA. It’s a giant pick and pull in the woods, about 1 square mile in size. It’s all old cars. The newest car I saw was a 2nd gen Caravan that had been wrapped around a tree and required the roof to be removed (how the seats were blood free was beyond me. Anyway...). He had half…

I saw my Integra a few months after I sold it. I inherited the car from my dad when I was 16. When I was 17, I crashed it into a tree on a back road and repaired it poorly with some junkyard parts and fiberglass. I drove it for a few more years like this, but finally replaced it in 2012. We ended up selling it to a…

Yes I like drifting. I happen to like all forms of motorsport from stock cars, to dirt cars, to rally, to IndyCar: in fact open wheel racing is where my true fandom lies. But I appreciate the design of the cars and the talent of the drivers. If you can’t be impressed by the car control of a pro drifter, then I’m not…

Should I go Google the tens of thousands of thought pieces on bad calls in football, baseball, basketball, Formula 1, IndyCar, NASCAR, and so on, or are you going to realize that every judgement call is just that: judgement. Drifting has a very defined set of rules that are used to decide the winners. And in fact, in…

Actually, I would not call you a neanderthal. I’d call you a stuck up snob. “The thing I like is better than the thing you like” is snobbery pure and simple.

So the NFL isn’t a sport? Because when the ref makes a call about possession, that is 100% an opinion. How about when the FIA, NASCAR, or IndyCar penalize a driver for dangerous driving? That’s their opinion right?

So what’s your definition of a sport then?

The ONLY reason I didn’t buy one of those 2 years ago is because they aren’t liftbacks. It would be my only car and I need that extra trunk opening. If the 370Z came with 4 seats that would work too. Hence why I want a 240SX hatch revival. I have a 1990 as a project and when it runs it is one of the most practical…

That was a throwback to the old 510. Still would have loved to see those in production though...

That would be great, but they’re all about making profits. VW had money to burn and burn it they did. Nissan doesn’t have quite that same luxury, but they could definitely be doing more with their lineup than they do now.

I hate agreeing with this, but you’re 100% right. Cheap, reliable enough for a lease, and minimally equipped is making a ton of money for Nissan right now.

Some say, it will actually be the first flying car and those are the jet thrusters

You mean the stylists. Those are definitely concept renderings and don’t necessarily reflect the final design. Also note that a blown diffuser prefers the exhaust gases to be in the diffuser. The more area of diffuser you use, the more effective the blown diffuser is.

The exhaust exits through the rear suspension as seen on the bare chassis pictures from Gazoo. Not sure what those roof things are. Awesome looking car though, and a great way of making money off out-of-spec spares sitting around the shop!