I’m a bit selfish here, but if you get that XJ here I’ll buy it off you for the powertrain, the 95 is the last year it’s easy to transplant into my ‘85 AMC Eagle (I could use bits from both engines for a cheap stroker too).  I can’t say I’d buy it off you for MUCH, but I like it for that reason. 

My vehicles have 14, 15, and 16" rims, and I’m looking to upgrade the ‘16s to ‘15s for more cushy sidewall.  Robustness to curbs/potholes and a better ride!

All car manufacturers do this all the time. You know how much it would cost GM to give every car in its lineup remote start? Negative big-ass-pile-of-money. They would save money on not having as many permutations of key fob in the warehouses, mix-ups when building cars, and fewer part numbers to keep track of is…

I thought the whole article was just going to say “Shop for a Tesla. ”

Having been told by women that they don’t like the feel of the condom, the word ‘male’ here is un-needed. Either party could be at fault for any number of reasons.

Has the gauge package which means it has a tach, changed the valve cover, has A/C (All good). It still has the original carb though, and all the emissions stuff, and no hitch though. Power windows and locks for that car are hard to get, seats too. The radio is pre-DIN so you’d either need a shaft radio upgrade or…

Working for a big car company there is pressure to buy one of or products, but I hate all of them. To get a little towing capacity you need to be driving a three story building, everything comes standard with the crap you don’t want and there are so many things to wade through it’s all buried in menus. I was on the…

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Not that I needed a reason, but I keep my lawn below the city mandated 8", no other work goes into it. No way would I join a HOA, and property values should be AS LOW AS POSSIBLE unless you are trying to sell your house, so haul out that old junker and paint the vinyl polka dots because it saves me on my taxes!

I settled for a two-car detached garage in a neighborhood where an attached garage is basically impossible. I have a friend who got a bigger, cheaper house with no garage but I wouldn’t ever make that trade. My mentality is that I can do plenty of weekend upgrades to the house and garage from the inside without…

My big sweeping generalization is that no one has made the case that people are willing to pay for quality, repairability, or flashy design. I could tell you that I would pay 300,000 for a tiny car that came with schematics, cad drawings, and used all allen head or hex head bolts with no push in plastic crap. Two…

Dude, build a hybrid of the 4.2 and the 4.0. You of all people have the parts to do an awesome version of this: http://www.rockcrawler.com/techreports/stroker40/index.asp

not quite half a lifetime ago, but damn, some good memories there

Any noise is a detriment to that, if you want a noisy car buy an older muscle car, they’ve got more style and more of basically anything else people may want in a muscle car (or sports car or ‘hot hatch’ or whatever you like)

Sounds like they are fulfilling the terms of the contract, which reads: “make us these things or pay this fee for not doing that” and they just pay the termination fee. There’s nothing wrong with that, that’s why the contract has that clause and that fee should be enough to cover the inconvenience of getting another…

I gave up on airlines and don’t like driving long distances anymore, I take the train.

I never understood what the inventory was for anyway. Sure, have one of each different package and option to test drive, but if you’re going to spend ludicrous money on a car worth half as much as soon as you leave the lot then why would you not just order exactly what you want with all the accessories and features…

This feels a lot like the subway from “Big O” with the giant robot transport

2000-2006 honda insight hybrid manual. Two words: skirted wheels.

Lower property value means lower taxes, the only reason someone wouldn’t want that is if they’re planning to sell it soon. I don’t understand people...