With a little luck, the US taxpayers will pick up these losses. Obama already made us pay for their oil drilling with our taxes and jobs after all.

I was already seeing DI issues on VAG products in 2006. Time will tell, but there are inherent problems with not having detergent fuel in the intake passageways of gas engines.

That Plymouth Voyager III was a long time coming. I first saw the concept, in its entirety, in the Road & Track 35th Anniversary Issue of June, 1982. IIRC, the concept was the work of a German, possibly named Wurner. At the time, it was presented as a series of different sketches showing different modular…

You forgot that it was built in Canada by an Italian company out of old German bones.

The reason the wheels were metric was to make you continue to buy the tires. The thing about tire technology is that it improves over time. IIRC, competitive tires when TRXs debuted were the Pheonix Stahlflex and Pirelli CN36. Remember them? Probably not. The people who owned them and thought they were big…

Just one turbo. That's all it took for me to never buy another turbo. The TRX package was so good that they had to make wheels that only fit TRX tires to get you to buy them again. Live and learn.

I saw Duel when I was a kid, and I hated that pansy Spielberg for using a Valiant. It was a slap in the face to anyone who had ever driven a car that he had a Valiant that couldn't get out of its own way and overheated trying to outrun a tanker truck up a hill. While slant-6 powered Valiants weren't fast relative to…

Read about Car and Driver's Sonata long term test car: 6 dealer visits in the first 5 months! The new Sonatas are not as good as people think. Overall, the current Sonatas have had steering column intermediate shaft issues, blown oil feed lines, un-alignable front suspensions, sunroof leaks, and generally GM-like…

I'm sorry. The internet is full of people who love telling others that there are no bad cars anymore so you should buy on something other than reputation, yet every time I had to give bad news to a GM, Nissan, VW, or Hyundai driver I couldn't help but to think that they'd have forgotten what talking to mechanics was…

I was in two crashes involving two CRX Si's one week in 1988. I suppose that means I can't complain that they're scarce.

Good luck with your car. As a former service writer, I can tell you that I already didn't want to have anything to do with Nissans, but unfortunately started dating a woman who had one. Toyotas and Hondas are the only cars I'd risk my reputation recommending.

I'm no VW fan, but at least they warrantied the emissions parts, something that Nissan manages to avoid. Until getting involved in this mess, I could have sworn their were robust laws requiring the warrantying of emissions components, but the Nissan dealer was very comfortable saying that 80K miles was past their…

I missed the part where he was playing. Sorry, his opinion is worth 100 million of yours.

I would advise people in states with safety inspections to steer clear of Ford Escorts and people in states with emissions tests to steer clear of Nissan Sentras. A friend with an Escort had to buy new rear coil springs for every other state inspection because they crack. Not free. A friend with a Sentra had to find…

The guy's an idiot with bad taste in cars, but BMWs have prescribed break in procedures. If the dealership sold him a car that was driven in conflict with the break in procedures and there was no reasonable way for him to tell prior to taking delivery, then the dealership misrepresented the car and should be liable.…

Close enough for government work... Now that the UAW has a net, each car produced will be better than the next.

I saw the thumbnail and just for an instant thought that BMW was introducing an attractive new car. Damn.

The best thing you can say about DC is that people who suck at the taxpayer tit deserve to live there.

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BMW E38>E65