That is a twenty year old stock car(Petty Enterprises 1992 Pontiac Grand Prix). I recall in the mid '90s NASCAR held exhibition races at Suzuka. The curves at Suzuka are much faster than on the tarmac course at Coronado. The NASCAR stockers in the hands of professional racers struggled to match lap times of two liter…
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That's certainly a legitimate concern in San Diego. Incidentally, I think the only crimes they solve here are the ones they commit.
In the late '70s VW sold a bunch of diesel Dashers and Rabbits in the US. Some of them worked fine, but many of them died before they were paid off. I still remember seeing them in so many middle class driveways with cobwebs and oil puddles under them to indicate that they'd been towed in and their owners didn't know…
We've come to the day when a BMW M-car is a dragster that can be murdered in slow corners by an old stock car.
I remember some pathetic 1st generation 5000TDs, but other than that I have little recollection of Audi trying to push diesel powered cars on America for ages. BTW, diesel didn't fail here for silly reasons. Only Mercedes made ones that worked and they were expensive. When gas became cheap again and manufacturers…
Agreed. I've been seeing that FIAT 130 listed for about as long as there has been an ebay. Maybe the dollar will fall low enough that someone will buy it with Euros. As a USD victim though, I'd think about almost half the price if it had a 5-speed manual instead of an automatic.
This is great news. Hipsters deserve Peugeots.
The US Civic has been preferable to the Euro Civic ever since 2006. Our Si had a helical LSD and multi-link IRS. Their Type R hatch had an open differential, a beam axle, bling rims, and dashboard toys. There were reasons the JDM Type-R was based on the US sedan's better-suspended, stiffer and lighter platform. The…
A FWD car will tend to understeer more than a performance oriented RWD car, but the Civic Si has one of the most neutral FWD chassis of the past 7 years. You just seem to be making things up to support your hatred. Besides, no stock hatchback Civic Si was ever anywhere near as quick. In some markets they had the…
It is a big Civic, but it is the smallest and lightest car in its class with one of the biggest interiors. Somehow the competitors aren't penalized for growing as much and being even heavier. Odd.
VW.
Brock Yates designed the Daytona coupe? Right...
This is supposed to be most overrated, not underrated. If you can find evidence of the Si being overrated, feel free to present it. That it's faster than many of its turbocharged competitors but gets dismissed for not being turbocharged kind of says it all. It has none of the negatives of forced induction but its…
Look at all the .0 M60s in the US that shared the cylinder erosion issue. Look at all the M20s(like mine) that had elastic head bolts. Once rebuilt after less than a year it was fine, but still no fun having your new BMW need a full engine rebuild. Look at all the early 335i's with HPFP and turbo issues. Look at M44…
When did BMW start caring about selling engines with fatal flaws?
They had me right up until Auto Trans. Hell, I wouldn't care if it cost $45K and got 17 mpg.
GM had only been building cars for 100 years after merging, and only another 11 years before that, when they built these cars that don't remain where they're parked. Surely they've nailed this car building thingy in the four years since.
And this looks like a Rolls-Royce.
The way he is dressed, the sheer cluelessness, are we sure he wasn't on his way to OWS instead of out for a jog?
Didn't Rodney King lead a car chase at speeds in excess of 115 mph in his 87 mph Hyundai? A few years ago Arizona dismantled its speed cameras after issuing a ticket for 147 mph to a Sonata.