Up in northern New England, the life expectancy of ball joints is by your third annual safety inspection. Wheel bearings\hubs last a bit longer. The other thing that wears out at about the same rate is rod ends. 8-12" frost heaves\pot holes, large amounts of unsprung weight, and 6-8 months of a heavy salted…

Well, these guys stop measuring their engine lifespan in years, and start measuring it in months or hours, so they don’t usually DGAF about their cars, being those toy cars, with boring commuters cars as backup.

That’s what local ordinances and statutes are for. And that’s what these people are trying to push. If 67 people don’t want that eyesore there, it shouldn’t be there.

Yeah, no.

Sure, which is why if you’re really worried about it, when you go to sell your neighboring house, you approached Mr. Panther with a 12 pack of beer and some steaks and offer to rent him a spot at a storage lot for the trailer for 2 months while you put your house up.

Just like people who move near a racetrack/airport/etc and then complain until they put it out of business.

Ironically, the HOA fee probably lowered your property value by more than his front-yard car repair would have.

The visuals of a legally parked trailer on private property are off-putting? You are the problem. Focus on your own life.

A F6F Hellcat first flew with 2.000HP. Make that three Dodge Hellcats.

I see your awesome skunk works project and raise you one better. I was there at the time and there were VERY few people who knew about this. It’s harder to keep an entire car secret than an engine. I knew of it before the reveal because of friends within Ford Performance on the racing side, but even they knew very…

Target power is easy to achieve when you consider a motor, no matter the size, is an air pump. Displacement, bore size, cylinder head CFM, compression, and external compression devices (superchargers or turbos if you will) can all be designed with a specific air flow in mind. The best motor is a matched motor. Hence…

Cowland responded: “We built it because we could.”

I want someone very, very angry to take over Nissan.

I agree with you ONLY because it is a hard top, probably doesn’t have AC, and the windows don’t look like they open. Maintenance schedule might be extreme too, idk anything about the R1R. I street drive my Atom 3S and it is a ****ing riot even just putzing around town. So raw compared to a street car. Even people who…

but I wanted the car for Saturday night, so I had to do what pa said

We’ve been near maximum ICE efficiency for a while now (transmission improvements aside), and if this new technology bumps efficiency up by 20%, that’s HUGE.

Your comment is purely speculative.

I was reading a post on a blog about the coyote vs the LS series a few days ago and yes, the argument that overhead cams were to complicated came up. I got a good chuckle out of it.

Japanese sports cars at that time were built so well, though. They just didn’t spare any cost and it showed. There were other factors in the US pricing (exchange rate, cache at the time, etc), but the quality of Supras and Z32s really is impressive in today’s market.

The non-turbo Z32 has 222 HP and 198 lb-ft of torque. It weighs 3,300 pounds and costs $30,825. The Corvette has 375 HP and 370 lb-ft of torque. It weighs 3,200 pounds and costs $33,600. Besides the small difference in price, why would you choose the Nissan?