I had 1000 flywheel in a 2800 lbs car that I drove around all summer. Why the heck wouldn’t you want 1000 HP? Just don’t stand on it at all times, it’s not complicated. Turbo motors are very well behaved.

The 1500 HP car gets about 26 mpg highway, on e85. The 1000 HP car did about 30-31; they can do better with…

Which stock 350 can take 1000 flywheel HP for any period of time? Even the best of the 4 bolt motors would be pushing it to make that kind of power, though they do have a more advantageous bolt head pattern.

I’ve actually built 1000-1500 HP engines; have you?

Really? You know a lot of guys making hundreds of pulls and driving 1500 miles on a stock internals SBC with >1000 flywheel HP?

I don’t know; I have a friend in low 8's in his S10 with a stock bottom end 5.3L. That’s pretty fast for a 350 dollar engine. Won his class in drag week with it, too.

Speaking as someone who has built 20 LS powered RX7s, making from 300-1400 HP. I can assure you, that a well built swap is far from lazy.

I suppose you can consider billet turbos and closed loop feedback traction control pretty hillbilly; I can’t hear you over the two step though.

I really like that car. That said, I’d really like it an awful lot more at about 9k. 13,500 is a bit much for the mileage.

Still voted NP, because, well, I want the damned thing.

It’s a nice car and I always had a soft spot for them (I looked for one as as a first car in the late 90s, in fact. Ended up with a Renault GTA, which I have a much less soft spot for). That said, I think this is about a grand high on price. 2,000? Sure, all day. 3,000 gets into a point where there are a lot of other…

So he’s assuming, based on limited information, that GM is in the right, which makes him dumb. While you assume, based on limited information, that GM is wrong, and that’s better?

On the surface, it sounds like this particular case may not have been their fault. Many others were, in fact, their fault.

I haven’t spent 2…

I have a 2013 Focus ST with Sync and I use it constantly. The ONLY feature I use is the audio selection though. I have a thumb drive with ~1000 songs and Sync is great for “play Bad Penny” or “artist Lindsey Stirling”. It's about 95% accurate, though the 5% of the time it's off, it's way, way off.

The TTV6 is very Buick, and would be a great option on my book.

I am an early 30s, fairly successful engineer. I think I am probably somewhere in the target demo for this. I rolled my eyes when I heard Buick was building a new coupe. That may have been misguided as this looks great. Add a modern GM pretty-darn-decent interior and they’ve got something. Add a stick or even a sporty…

I liked it too. But I was nine, so.

Hmm, as a Focus ST owner, that’s a pretty familiar looking car. Little more Mazda 3 “ish” on the back, but still, pretty similar to the current hot hatches.

One of the few parts I didn’t have to repair while I owned it. Likely due to minimal use by the previous owner.

Agreed. I had a very clean 328i Cabrio a few years back. Paid 12k for the car. Got snide remarks from someone at the office driving a brand new Kia about how it “must be nice”. Yeah, it is nice driving a car that cost half as much as that CUV...

I’m not a mechanic by trade and with a few hundred dollars in tools I can pull the engine out of a Ferrari. Not that big a deal. Tedious, complicated, but doable.

Buy this and a Fiero kit car body. Combine.

Wow, if there is ever any kind of infrastructure the people in these cities are screwed. I sometimes wonder if people in these cities have any idea how reliant they are on everything staying “just right”.

There may be no example better than the Tucker 48.

Speaking as someone who can handle maintenance myself, this is a pretty smoking deal. I have a Focus ST that I paid quite a bit more than that for, and over a 5 year period, my cost of ownership would probably be pretty level.

As a side note, I considering buying a drivetrain from one of these for my Mustang project,…