Honestly, I haven’t been so committed that I would really consider this. It’s more the bemusement that the dealers that I talk to here are so apathetic about this and seem to be unwilling to lift a finger to do this on my behalf.
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Will you ask Nissan why my dealer tells me that all of the GT-R NISMOs are essentially pre-sold before the first one is imported? I seriously thought about buying a NISMO but the Detroit Metro dealers never seem to be able to get their hands on one...
The biggest crime is that this wasn’t at the Woodward Dream Cruise - it would have fitted right in with all of the upside-down vans and the wind-up VW bug.
The 2005-2006 period can hardly be referred to as “the peak of Ferarri’s dominance”: the 2005 Bridgestone tires were not comparable to the Michelins and, despite teething problems with the new 2006 V8, they both ended the season with seven victories each.
Belle Maer is a great marina!
Largely irrelevant, but I think this picture (and some of others I found from this shoot) were taken at Jefferson Beach Marina in St Clair Shores, where I keep my boat!
“mismanagement by the Germans at Daimler”
I could have, and would have, fixed it with nothing but a phone call...to a wrecking yard.
I was going to make this point myself, but allow me to reinforce it - there’s always been a huge gap from the top to the bottom, but the current rules effectively stifle the kind of innovation that allowed smaller teams to punch above their weight.
Who is buying these?
I would endorse this if I could get a Miata filter, because there are times that we get dozens of them a week.
I have to be honest: I’m having a hard time getting worked-up about this because it isn’t really “street racing”. Perhaps because this was me in my early twenties, hanging out in a cruising spot where sometimes hundreds of people would show up in a large shopping center’s parking lot and doing dumb shit until 2-3AM.…
I work in the vehicle networking sector, and I can attest that the electronic systems in modern commercial aircraft, especially the motion-control systems, contain virtually none of the cybersecurity features that are becoming more common in ground transportation. The reasons for this are numerous but, as this article…
You do realize that not everyone works on their own cars...don’t you? And, compared to other GM products, the parts prices are still high. I’m looking at RA right now and, while the absolute prices have gone down since I used to work on these, they’re proportionally more than better, more conventional contemporary GM…
Ever actually look at Lumina Z34 prices on Rock Auto? The parts prices have come down since these were new-ish, but many of them are still 3X that of most other Detroit cars. And then there’s the labor...
CP, because this is almost as expensive as an Audi or Citroen to repair. Expensive-to-fix and failure-prone:
-Brakes
-Front struts
-ABS system
-Fuel system
-Ignition system
-Most of the electrical system
Precisely this; I work for one of the leading AD/ADAS software providers and the software isn’t is a huge challenge. Billions are being spent on research and development of algorythms, platform software (such as operating systems and middleware) and validation to get these systems to really “self-drive”, and today’s…
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Anyone wondering how HD finds itself in this situation should watch “Birth Of The V-Rod”; it really shows the conflict between knowing that they have to broaden the appeal of the brand and trying not to alienate existing customers. Like the bike, or not, this video gives you a glimpse of how difficult it is to do this…
Read the title, clicked, scrolled down and selected CP. There isn’t any other rational answer.