The question isn’t whether the 924 was a success, but whether the Camry was a success? The 924 was a half assed attempt at a sports 4 cylinder that was quickly eclipsed by the 944. Bread and butter cars like the Camry are judged on sales volume. Cars like the 924 are judged on enthusiast response, and that response…

I liked it just fine. Sure Lelouch isn’t willing to lose his license, or kill anyone in Paris that horrid 82 year old, but the car goes fast, and it doesn’t cut from watching the acceleration so I’m happy. 

By new you mean 1978 then yes. My volvo 245 wagon did that. 

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That is a factory part. My ‘88 GLI had it. I actually found it to be a cunning design that I did not hate, but I was young, dumb and brave at the time. It is the way it rolls up into position that puts most people off. What puts me off is that it like every scissor jack relies on a central screw to exert force against…

Very True! I am trying to remember the name of the Japanese Ace who got knocked out by the first Hellcats because when they went vertical he stalled before it did. Sueda I think? not sure any more. The Hellcat was cunning because it looked close enough to a Wildcat that it fooled a lot of Japanese at first.

Just so you know, Fuji makes a steel touring bike right now, new out of the box with a triple crank for around $800. So the price point is not $1600 that you are rationally competing with.

This is a timely enough post in a way that you may or may not know about. About 20 years ago there used to be a guy who sold auto literature on Ebay named Walter Miller. Walter recently passed away as I read in my HH Franklin Club magazine, but he was an amazing guy. I went up to his “museum” in Syracuse, New York to…

Is it still necessary to engage in self loathing if I like internal combustion engines in all their forms to participate on this site, or can we revert to the old  ways of just geeking on cars? 

Straight off the lot, two tone, expensive, and ready for some rockin’ customization that van was the hippest thing around to catch all the girls. 30 years later, same guy driving it, total murder van to catch all the girls. 

Yes, and there is a reason that cars were skinned in Soviet steel. My 1972 Mercedes has a German steel frame, but the body was Soviet steel, and the reason is that the high carbon steel that the Soviets made was easier to stamp into acute radiuses than more purified steel. Alfa probably was just using it here because…

LOOOVE the fact that it is an AlfaSud. So derided, but still somewhere under that badge still a little Alfa. 

Battista has been dead a long time. Give the car to Zagato and stand back. They have the mojo right now. 

Actually from the purchasers perspective there is very little risk if you put nothing down on the car. You are just out the monthly payments, and if you perceive them as rent, as many did with Mitsubishi’s loans back in the nineties, easy come easy go.

I had an Odyssey 1 when I was a kid, the first gaming console ever. My dad was so proud when he brought it home for me and my older brother. It had 3 games!!!!! Pong Tennis, Pong Hockey, and I can’t remember the third it might have been some kind of Pong breakout, but it was definitely pong related. We played it for a…

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The AMG was the main competitor back in 2010. I did not look at it because it did not have a manual option. Would I look at one now since all would be automatic only? Yes but I doubt that I would like it. I have been nosing around a new car since before I bought the Jaguar, and I have looked at the new Mercedes E…

Well that would work for me. I am one of the psychos who bought the CTS V Wagon new in 2010 delivered in 2011. It is coming up on ten years old and has 95,000 miles on it. I started babying it 5 years ago by getting a 2006 Jaguar and running that as my daily driver, however that now has 85,000 miles on it. I could…

Sooo this makes me think of two things. First I find driving in this moment of complete dislocation oddly difficult from its lack of traffic. Having not left the house in 7 days I couldn’t take any more time with my 5 year old glued to my hip and took my Motorcycle for an hour long ride just around the area. I almost…

Hmm. I see this differently than you. The problem with AI navigating the world are those occasions that are not typical. It is the weird thing that the AI doesn’t know how to react to not standard driving with lots of other cars to use as data points on the road. Right now I believe is the best time in history to send…