@FromaBuick6: Symbolic Motorcars has a Muira SV in their locked showroom, away from all the common new Lamborghinis and Bentleys. I care about that car. It is as beautiful and pure as the Veyrons next to it are ridiculous.
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Seems like wasted effort. There's nothing you can do to make an E90 look any worse.
If the milling process doesn't effect the strength, why is the rest of the brace so thick? Maybe they're anal, but they're not as smart as they're given credit for. I shudder to think what this car really weighs. McLaren sometimes claimed 2,200 lbs for the McLaren F1. Then they claimed 2,341 lbs. Then it was 2,512…
@GåßëÊdwå®d§ - Jalopy Gopnik Hooligan: "What a great driver the Stig is, the same time as a Murcielago!" "That was an amazing time!" No Jeremy, you're just an idiot. The other times were set by 'the Stig(s)' too. The problem is that the car is infinitely better than Clarkson gives it credit for being.
Come on Ben. The Alpina was more lustworthy? The Alpina ONLY came as an automatic and didn't have the M5's S62 engine.
@zeeboid: I think wacopaco gave you your answer as to why we're in debt. There is a huge sector of the population who only believe lies.
@GTRbrian: The first bunch of green idiots will probably pay huge markups on the cars. The rest of us get to subsidize their efforts to get attention for their smug. Yippee.
Why do we need a replacement for bloated, pudgy, uninspiring Buick? I've seen a couple of the new LaCrosses, and they're pretty much the most cumbersome looking Buicks ever.
@rocketrodeo: 11. Dodge Hemi Dart.
@Papercutninja (tweets as: Frequentlywong): I usually just tell them that if they're scared they should buy a car. Hitting them with pipes would be better, but legal fees here are off the hook.
@consistently inconsistent: Surely they sorted the bugs to get it to that sort of mileage. OTOH, this was a cheap used car that has hit all the miles that anyone would want it to as a primary car. Maybe the SVT novelty makes this a $2,500 used up old beater. Maybe.
Better power to weight ratio than a Bugatti Veyron? How about more than twice as favorable a power to weight ratio than that absurdity?
I must say that the real winner is the Mopar Cross Ram, but I'd like to nominate the BMW E39 M5 under the airbox cover anyway. How many velocity stacks are factory installed?
@ChiefPontiaxe is now also Chief VolvoWagonAxe: You win in my eyes.
The NSU was Project Car Hell when it left the factory.
The Volvo 850 was arguably the peak? That is hillarious. I used to date a woman whose family is HUGE in Volvo circles in the US. They wouldn't stock 850s on their used car lot, as 850s were complete garbage. The name change to S70/V70 was necessitated by the 850's reputation for bringing shame on the Volvo brand.
@tomcatt: I don't know what the overall stats are, but it must be a regional thing. The ones I used to go to in central Virginia either closed or went to a closed yard system where they try to pay their bills by screwing anyone who actually buys something at their counter.
@SS427: I used to drive an LS powered 2008 Suburban. Corvettes and Camaros must be a joke.
Self service junkyards are a rare and dying breed. When they're gone, hackers can thank themselves for playing their part in making U-pick-its part of history.
@Wunno Sev: I wouldn't put displacement envy past Europeans, but in this case they had nothing to be jealous of. The 3.5 liter was a high compression engine set up for leaded fuel while the 4.5 was ready for unleaded and so it made much less power and got a little more than half the fuel mileage.