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As a 2008 Astra XR owner, where do I even begin?

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Its because the Japanese and the West Germans have been killing us on trade for years, believe me. Believe me. Sony is dumping their Trinitrons on us below cost, same with the Blaupunkts. Our negotiators are a bunch of low energy dummies. We won’t have that any more. We’ll have new trade polices, tremendous deals,

The appeal of these things is just totally lost on me, bland styling, moderate performance, okay handling, I mean the sales pitch at the time was “cool for the price”, and at the time I still didn’t see it. Having said that, there are people who love Ramblers, so WTF do I know.....

Here you go. To find this study, I took on the arduous task of clicking through to the only outside story linked in this one. It was indcredibly diffiult and you’re very lucky I was able to click through one whole hyperlink to bring you this info

Buying this car is a semi-accessible way to becoming a real race car driver.

I don’t own a car with e 3.6, but I did drive a rental Camaro for about 800 miles for a business trip. I have a hard time believing that the 3.6 is down on gas mileage because I averaged about 33 mpg over the course of my trip cruising between 75-80 mph and driving hard when in the cities. The highway fuel rating is

I too am a fan of that particular V6. I drive a ZL1 but got a rental Camaro with that same 3.6L. It was a blast, but I mean it did have the “rentals ar the fastest cars upgrade”.

Faced this exact dilemma recently as I was in the market for an ATS and as of almost 2 weeks ago am the owner of one. I never got to try the 3.6 as I couldn’t find any for sale locally, everyone I found was the 2.0T. The only plus sides I saw I. Looking at the 3.6 is potentially longevity and better engine sound. But

Any car can run on 100 octane.

Car fuel can melt steel beams!

Couldn’t watch either. It’s unfortunate that shame is an emotion lacking with many nowadays. Condolences to the family.

Mt Panorama Bathurst, pre chicane, 1985. The TWR Jaguars with amazing fuel consumption !! I remember watching the race as a 7 year old.

A buddy of mine de-catalysed his XJS in his shop. Did we run the car straight off the exhaust manifolds to see what it sounded like? Yes we did. The earth could have opened up and we wouldn’t have noticed.