I was just discussing this yesterday while replacing the water pump and thermostat on my E91. Was it an easier job on the E46 wagon I used to own? Yup. But I still prefer the E91 over that car any day of the week. Goes without saying that I didn’t need any sort of swap to get a 3.0 liter in the E91, whereas the E46…

No, they are just “that bad” at driving. Camry owners also can’t be troubled to either turn on their headlights or turn off their brights. It seems like any car I see with no lights on after dark, or their high beams permanently on has a 50/50 chance of being a Camry.

I’ve done 5 or 6 automatic to manual transmission swaps on various SAAB 900s and 9000s. Those were always “fun” and fairly involved, but after the first two I didn’t find them overly difficult as it is for the most part a bolt-out, bolt-in affair.

I bought a 1985 SAAB 900S sedan for parts for $200. The guy I bought it from got it at auction for $150 and had only gotten inside it once to put it on his trailer. When I tore into it to harvest the parts I needed I found $300 in cash in the ash tray, and a package of Oscar Mayer bologna that was 2 years expired…

Yup. I went to high school with the younger Hall. He was a very nice kid.

Don't get me wrong, I sure do lurv me some G-Wagens...but man do I ever see this thing as little more than a fashion accessory.

The two vehicles in the video are oddly similar in more ways than one. They are both slow/under powered, and they are both wagons.

I would be willing to bet it is on the right hand side of the car, based on the the fuel filler icon with the filler nozzle on the right side. That said, everything else is inexplicable, but charming...just like a good French car should be.

My 525i was debadged when I bought it, and I'm really not interested in buying a badge for the trunk just so people know for sure what it is or isn't. I frankly do not care. My wife and I also have a 328i wagon, and the thought never really crossed my mind to debadge it. Our Xterra on the other hand seems to have…

I'd giggle like a school girl every time the factory boot gauge would wrap far enough around that it was pointing the the F/full mark on the fuel gauge. Good times.

Pretty much spot on! My car was a 1995 model year (differnt engine management than 1993 as posted above). I had Siemens 60lb/hr injectors, a walbro 255lph pump, a spec stage 2 clutch, and early T3 exhaust manifold, and the turbocharger on mine was an HX35W which is internally wastegated. I think everything one mine…

Ah...the old SAAB 9000 with a diesel truck turbo bolted on and a bunch of other shit cobbled together. That little video clip is from my car, from what I recall that was shortly after I got everything working and before I got it "dialed in". It made over 420hp at the wheels the day after I got it running on a…

I picked up a very low-mile Xterra Pro-4X at the end of this winter, and so far I really like it. I've always been a fan of Toyota trucks, and had been planning on a getting a 4Runner and ditching my 2003 LR Discovery, but the price on this Xterra was very hard to pass up. It still has half of the 3/36 bumper to…

The point of using the remote start when you are 10 feet away from your car is...what?

There are still places where you can pump and then pay. I recently had license plates stolen off my E39 and used on a Ford Expedition who filled his tank and left without paying. Despite the fact that I don't own (nor ever have owned) a Ford Expedition and despite the plates being originally registered to an E39…

In college (U of MN, Minneapolis/St. Paul) we had regular straight buses, like the one in the video, as well as the articulated "bendy buses." Some of the drivers really liked to get heavy on the go pedal in the snow when the traffic was light. In a regular bus it is somewhat of an odd sensation, drifting around a…

I don't like having to justify my purchases.  If I want something stupid and it isn't going to break the bank then my justification is simple "I wanted it."

Hooning around in the winter with my 1988 SAAB 900 Turbo that I had dumped a ton of time and money into. New trans (converted from auto to manual), new turbo, plus a bunch of parts from wrecked 900 'SPG.' It was a great car, rust free, and I was very proud of it.

Whatever they can do to prevent having to change 42 (or more) CV boots per year would be a plus.

As a person with an E46 325xi (the ELi package was unavailable) and the CV joint issues that come with them and besmirch what has otherwise been a great car, I can say I don't ever want to deal with that possibility of that many BMW CV joints.