Opels, at least from the 90's and 00's, also had the parking lights tied to the stalk. Leave the turn signal stalk engaged to either side and that respective side will have the front and rear position lights on after turning off and removing the key from the ignition cylinder.

Took you long enough. Its in a way your child. Just go and get one already! Full door seems to be the most practical.

I would love to live in a world where 10.1 billion is “up” compared to 19.4 billion. Greedy companies!

Let’s blame the big greedy company for all the problems in the world. Poor DA just trying to be more humane by letting crooks off the hook easily and still has to be criticised for his benevolent stance, after all, crooks are still human beings. Whereas cash greedy big Corp is ranked entirely by non human cash greedy…

This account is a great window on the kinds of cars most of the world’s population drives.

I Believe his point is, GPS time is over-the-air of sorts.

Murena.

Poor Kadett.

Just don’t try to rev-match en downshifting. You can master that later on. Your gearbox has synchros that will handle that for you. As you slow down, just push the clutch all the way down and go down one gear then let the clutch go in a smooth movement. If the gear you choose is still too high you’ll instantly feel…

Good Times! What a beautiful, great car to learn manual shifting on. I was a 12 year old when this Firebird was made and it was one of the coolest looking vehicles of the time. Plus it was (still is) unobtainium here in Brazil. Well, even automatics were pretty rare here in ‘96. The good side to us not having these…

Agree. This truck is way too normal to command such a high premium.

This. I, for one, never detailed my cars’ engine bays before selling. Cleaning would hide the true condition it was in and would conveniently hide leak signs etc. When buying used I prefer cars that haven’t been thoroughly groomed and cleaned, some information about the car’s past is lost/hidden - - what stories the…

Maybe for the same reason you also didn't get a new plug? 😁

Brazilian importer here. If you can deal with importing here maybe you can deal with it most anywhere in the world. I have been told Russia is very particular with imports, you have to have a well connected broker to make it.

Something doesn’t quite fit. This nice example of a ZJ has too little rust.
Maybe you should change the hood or a door for one from another, rusty car just for good measure.

You are right again. What the numbers fail to convey is how easily they can cruise at 70-90mph. Which are high speeds for our roads. Most of our roads are two-lane affairs, so top speed is less important than, say, 40-60mph pulls while overtaking a slower vehicles. A factory Brazilian market 3.9 F-250 is no dragstrip…

You are right. Oh, but look at “the torques”... Really, you would be surprised how not-slow they are. Usually outside the US and Australia/NZ turbodiesels tend to be less refined interms of NVH but stronger in a hp-per-litre sense. Usually they work with stronger boost. So this 3.9 doesn’t really have only slightly…

Is this a real car?

Hi Mercedes, I am delighted to have seen a few articles covering what is our “strange little world” regarding cars in Brazil.

Plus... As my compatriots mentined below (and Msercedes since then corrected in her article), it is mated to a 5-speed manual. Has enough boost to squeak the wheels a little if you upshift early, then slam the throttle in 3rd.