The engines of the 480 were overhauled by Porsche before they fitted them, they were 100% reliable. Engines often lived on long after the cars had gone. Plus, the turbo engines were often re-purposed by Renault drivers for their cars because they were a direct fit.

On the other hand, some spares fit from Renault where…

I owned two Volvo 480 before, Turbo models no less.
The picture doesn’t do it justice, the rear view is as great.
Stuff this little car had (in 1986) as standard: coming home light function, illuminated keyholes (pull the door handle and the slot for the key lit up), illuminated ignition key hole (early models),…

That’s why you have an old dishwasher in the garage outside for that. Or a parts cleaner aka industrial dishwasher.

Hm, i disagree on the hardware requirements. I have the Rift connected to my living room pc, which is running an AMD A10 quadcore cpu on Socket FM2 plus a GTX970, and so far I found not a single game that was stuttering or lagging, apart from loading hiccups when the HDD wasn’t fast enough.
Even Robo Recall runs…

The story from that guy is a hotly debated topic over here in Germany too.
Some points he made are utter bullshit, but some others seem to be worth at least thinking about. P.ex. he expresses in the full document ideas about how both men and women could break out of their pre-defined roles, even going as far as saying…

That is actually hilarious on so many levels - if that thing is real, then somebody atleast had some sense of humour.
I would hope that all cars that are sacrificed like this were beyond repair to be street legal.
Having nursed my MX5 NBFL back from the dead (it had a front collision before I got it which triggered an…

Stop pushing Redout, start playing Formula Fusion.
THAT is a proper cure for Wipeout nostalgia, even down to the design.

Stop pushing Redout, start playing Formula Fusion.
THAT is a proper cure for Wipeout nostalgia, even down to the…

He won’t necessarily use if for shavers or bikes, they just happen to fall into the same general category of industrially produced items than some of the electical toys he produces.
That guy created the Carrera slotcars, he probably wants to create more car toys without paying royalties for every special name. He has…

The way the metal is won is the problem here. The known Lithium deposits in the earth are not that huge, and dwindling fast. You can win it out of the water of certain seas which have a high concentration, but that is a rather complicated process. Pure Lithium then has to be processed further to create the batteries,…

Nope, batteries are for people that want to look “environmental”. The environmental impact of producing a battery powered car is so high that you can drive an average petrol car for a few years before they break even in environmental damages. Plus, the battery has to be renewed at some point, whereas p.ex. my car is…

But not in the amounts that we need them. We cannot manufacture enough solar cells to power everything electric we have now with them (plus, they only work well half of the day), same with wind power: not a reliable source, and you need tons of space.
We need to find something else, but coal clearly has to go, as well…

As I already said, don’t forget the power losses in transfer over land lines, and also the losses while charging (which are also noticeable).
PEF of 40% at the plant is believable, I’m with you there. You won’t get to zero though, and as I said, using only solar or even mostly solar power or wind power for cars is…

And nother nice FD gone :(
Why does everyone sacrifice those glorious cars as driftmissiles? They should not be molested like that, there are barely any left to buy and drive normally. Same with the Escort RS Cosworth, most have been destroyed on finnish rallye tracks, now there are almost zero left that have not been…

Try a Denon car stereo from the DCT-range. Or a Panasonic CQ-TX5500. There are lots of good looking stereos out there. Although the high end ones typically do not have MP3 support, that is sadly correct.

The point being though that you should rather turn on those things that create the majority of the pollution, and not do a “bandaid-fix” which massively affects commuters and residents alike, but won’t help that much altogether.
Ozone limits were exceeded in my hometown in the 80s, without any strong industrial output,…

The ironic thing is that old diesels were outlawed from the cities because they produced so much soot. But they had very low NoX emissions.
New Diesel (especially those of the Euro5 variant) produce lots of NoX, but less soot.
So choose your poison. The thing is that in most somewhat industrialized cities those…

Try changing these on a Volvo 850 wagon. Reaaaaally interesting, the aftermarket parts are sometimes just a few mm too long to fit. But once you realise that you can unscrew the heads from those and put on the heads from the original ones - ta-daa :D
Really strange though that the heavy tailgate is held up by two small…

That guy was in court because some of the cars he modified were apparently stolen, there were also lots of 911 chassis at some time behind his workshop with the VIN numbers cut out.
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That Dealer was just an asshole, and his staff too. Nothing more.

I went to a Porsche Dealership in souther Germany once. Rolled up with my Ford Fiesta XR2i, wearing blue jeans, a white T-shirt and a black jacket. Must have been 22 or 23 then. I had some time to kill and walked in just to look at the cars.
Didn’t take…

Diet Coke is marketed as “Coca Cola sugar free” (zuckerfrei) in Germany, which is more appropriate. However, Coke Zero somehow tastes a bit different and at least in refrigerated form better than diet coke, so if it has to be sugar free, I prefer that one.