I call bull. They are reliable when properly cared for. There are lots out on the road here in Germany with 300.000 or 400.000km on the odo.
The reason you do not read much about them is because the owners are to busy driving them to write anything on Internet forums.

Completely unwarranted. The IMS problem is small, and only affecting a disproportionally miniscule percentage of cars. A lot of other engine problems were attributed to the IMS, but the cars mostly having problems with it are those that are rarely driven.
Same goes for general engine problems. Porsche 986 and 996 tend…

I am trying to sift through old ADAC magazines, since I was already driving during that time and witnessed the crash test desaster first hand (the tests were conducted in Germany and went through our press first), but here’s some stuff directly from their homepage:
Euro NCAP introduced ESP into their testing scheme in…

Under the newer standards even the Audi A4 B5 is a two star car, the third star has been stricken of its rating (just looked it up on their page). Pedestrian safety was not tested at first (got introduced in the 2000s) and when the BS6 ceased production in 2010 and newer cars were on the horizon, ESP was added as a…

not true. 2 or 3 years after this debacle, the next car from Brilliance was in fact so good that the Euro NCAP changed its testing standards, suddenly demanding the inclusion of ESP and stuff like that to get the maximum points. This also meant that a lot of previously tested european cars suddenly lost a star or two…

It sounds all too familiar.
I also resurrected two old bikes from the 80s, and the frames are too thin to put anything larger than the skinny 27 tyres between them (almost as skinny as racing bike tyres), the brakes gave me the same problem - but the other way round. I got the V-brake pads to fit adjustment-wise, but…

Look up the BV238, largest flying boat of WWII iirc. It even had a planned land-based version, BV250.
Anyway, that thing had a predecessor (BV222) that was originally planned for the Lufthansa for long-distance mail transport worldwide, and the BV238 had a planned successor that was a luxurious multi-story passenger…

The channel has been reinstated as far as I know.
The ban took place 3 days ago or something like this, and yes, was probably just because of mass reportings by trolls who won’t accept that Twitch is not only about gaming anymore (and hasn’t been for years btw... - chatting, IRL streams, arts and crafts, cooking,…

How can you ignore Ronnie Raygun , Jimi Farmer and Tricky Dick in Nuclear War?

oh it is, even in Germany. There are some that have racked up over 100.000km, they are apparently quite reliable beasts if taken care of properly.

They actually produced a report about all of this in the early 2000s, the BND was supposed to do the same to inform their combined governments about this, but the Germans took their sweet time.
And they didn’t get outright “bought out” by the US, there was a trial from one of the company heads against being fired after…

I up you with a Ford Fiesta GFJ 1.1i - 50hp, although that thing only weighed less than 900kg empty, it was just enough to get it to 87mph with a looooooong run up, and whenever you had to brake you were cursing for minutes, since the little bit of speed you lost meant 20 mins of accelerating to get back to top speed.
P…

and it isn’t very good at either of these things, but it is kind of like the “swiss army knife” of oily stuff.
Seriously, there is better stuff for long term rust protection, lubricating, making a flame etc... but there is no other stuff that does all of this sorta ok-ish.

This comes shortly after it the publication of the CIA and BND (Germanys intelligence agency) cooperating in buying a swiss company called “Crypto AG” specialising in security hardware in the 60s to sell these now hackable devices to governments worldwide...

While the BND didn’t want to spy on allies and wanted to…

Every car has an angle from which it looks weird.
You have picked a non-Turbo (without the front spoiler lip) with the blandest wheels, a bad color for the car (white) and a very bad angle.

nice! Well, if you want to know what it could evolve into, look for the Top Gear review of the Polestar C30. Sadly, it was a concept only, but Polestar would happily build you one if you ask nicely :)

fortunately, that C30 will probably serve you for many years to come. Especially if it is a T5, those engines are basically bulletproof as long as they are regularly treated to a new set of genuine Volvo spark plugs and oil changes. (somehow, the T5 engines run best with the original Volvo spark plugs - don’t know…

If it wasn’t so bad (rust, electrical problems, unobtainable spare parts) I’d say go and import a Volvo 480. It was designed for the US, there are a handful (5 that I am aware of) with beige interior that were prototypes for the US, but due to the strong Dollar in the 80s it was never exported because it would’ve been…

I don’t know if the Ford S-Max classifies as a Minivan, but it was available with the 220hp 2.5T engine from the second generation Ford Focus ST. The engine, that was created from the Volvo 850 T5 engine, and which was refined to more than 300hp in the Focus RS and V70R.
The platform is still based on the Focus, which…

Is that the Baby Yoda made by Folkenstal?