Except more most “stability control” systems’ solution is to cut throttle when it detects any yaw or slippage. Any hope of maintaining momentum is quickly overruled by the safety nannies.

My local Buick dealer kept giving me one of those Encores as a loaner when I brought my TourX in for warranty work. After many repeat visits for the same issue (which it’s own story), I vetoed the Encore. I couldn’t bare to be seen in that Dork-mobile any longer. They reluctantly “upgraded” me to an Envision.

I’m guessing this is the one previously owned by the Museum of Transport in St. Louis. They still show it on their website: https://tnmot.org/the-collection/

I’d love to have this. I’ve got a weird fetish for survivor quality malaise era vehicles.

Hagerty is a bit optimistic in their valuations. Higher agreed value -> higher premium -> higher profit. That’s not to say their insurance isn’t a good value, but their valuation tool is self serving.

Totally looking forward to the first YouTube video of a TRX owner with more balls than brains jumping one, sticking a pancake landing, collapsing the suspension and deploying all air bags.

Street pricing on the G Power is currently $200. The 10L doesn’t seem to be widely available yet, but where I do find it, it lists for $249. The $250 price point of this test would actually score a Moto G Stylus, with smaller battery, but better camera.

Yes, but you trade vacuum leaks for stripped gears.

Nice price....barely. Rust is the biggest factor on these, and this one has none. The supercharger is a very desirable accessory. No rear locker though. Without the S/C, this would sell for $4K easily. Not sure it’s worth the extra $1500, but close.

Just replaced the lowers on my 99. Took 2 hrs. Easy job as long as you’re not fighting rusty bolts.

This. When your workforce arrives 50 at a time in a retired school bus, you’re just pissing into the wind with countermeasures within the place of work.

I believe the term was actually “intermediate”, but your point is well taken.

For what it’s worth, I just bought a 2019 TourX for $12500 off the $38000 sticker price. That discount, plus limited inventories made me jump.

If anyone want to disrespect this engine, they really need to go drive something powered by the 2.5L Iron Duke. That was GMs base motor at the time. Now THAT engine was a noisy, rough running POS.

Came here to say the same thing. Graduated from there in the early 90s. Don’t recall seeing it at school, or at that scrap yard, but it’s very plausible that it resided in the ME/AE department at some point.

Yep. Finding good example with a manual is pretty much impossible. Finding any decent surviving Subaru of this vintage is pretty tough. Nice ones command a huge premium. Subaru wasn’t selling that many cars back then, and even fewer in markets where they’d be less likely to rust to pieces. And even in ideal…

My kids have a full arsenal of these things. We were quick to learn that safety glasses are mandatory PPE for any battles. The velocity of those darts is just a tick higher than what the typical human can dodge. That’s also what makes them so much damn fun.

I currently daily drive one of these. My second one actually. Great cars, but definitely a bit needy in the maintenance department.

What I loved most about Moto Assist was it’s ability to customize settings based on geographic location (not just network). If I was at work, or church, it would mute all alerts. At home, it would read text messages aloud. If you were moving in a car, it would suggest/detect you were driving. The last one was a bit…

Moto assist is (was) great, and ahead of it’s time when introduced, but it’s only available on Moto phones. I’m missing it dearly after upgrading from my 2013 Moto X to my Nexus 5X. Why Google didn’t pillage that from Motorola during their brief ownership I don’t understand.