what does “JDM engine” mean in the context of a Mustang?

I haven’t seen it in person, but I’m pretty sure everyone on this forum has seen it like I have. For the movie “The Fast & The Furious: Tokyo Drift”, they took a Shelby GT500 and swapped in a JDM engine to make it a drift machine. The production crew went through the effort of actually doing this. However, once they…

she’s going to be a host, not decoration.

Such a dog, no one else in the conversation even gave it a moment’s thought:

The answer is always...

Subaru SVX

Oh man, this is a tough one! I guess it’s a tie between the “Japanese Mustang” and “Murican Lambo”; thank goodness I came to my senses and bought a VW Porsche instead! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

IMO overpriced, but comfortably under the price limit and a great deal more reliable than legends say: 1997 Jaguar XJ6 Vanden Plas.

To use the “Ship of Theseus” paradox, if a 250k mile car has had every wear component replaced, does it still have 250k miles?

Well, speaking from the perspective of an older generation, our experiences in the 1960s, 70s and 80s were that many cars (excluding Volvos) didn’t last much past 100k miles. I’m guessing that many folks are based in this oldthink. The odometers of the day reflected the “99,999.9 miles? hahaha” reality. Hell,…

Exhibit A: that Chevy Malibu rental form Hertz with mechanical chatter from the engine bay and a lurching transmission with 39 thousand miles on the odo.

I hate low mileage cars. It just jacks up the price for no reason other than perception that the car will magically last longer. I find high-mileage to be comforting because it means the owners actually DROVE the car and typically highway mileage which is way easier on things than stop-and-go.

It’s worse with classic…

Everything else being equal... it’s all about who you’re buying it from. I’d buy a car with 200,000 from a fastidious owner over something with 50k from some jackass any day of the week.

What about the sunroof?

You have a promising career as an Italian prosecutor

See, there justice. And then they’d Italian justice.

Faux pass

I’m thinking it’s a plastic tub, not a cast-iron one.

Yea, it would seem a poor choice of words on Raph’s part...it isn’t road legal for us purchase and drive daily (since new vehicles are required to have airbags in the US) but if you needed to take it on a short jaunt between stages that would be acceptable. In any case, not a major concern for most of us since “150+K…