Bathurst seems to have arrived quietly on Oppo this year.
Okay, the main 1000km event doesn’t actually start for another 14 hours, but there has been two days of practice, qualifying and support races each with their own fair share of action.
A while back, to get my wife out of her Pulsar into something more.. substantial, I handed her the keys to my - for lack of a better phrase - pride and joy, my 2001 Mitsubishi Magna sedan (see Diamante).
Over the years, I threw some serious dollars at it in terms of maintenance and modifications, and paint aside, its…
On the bright side, however, he did buy this...
1998 HSV VT GTS Series 1
Yesterday was oil-change and maintenance day for my Magna. 244,000km (or 151,000 miles) which saw throttle and inlet mainfold clean treatment, engine oil flush, new oil and oil additive, oil filter, air filter, and fuel treatment.
Makes me wonder, how many Oppos do their own maintenance on their cars? I bet the…
44ºC in my town today (111ºF)
I'm weighing up my options for my next DD, which I hope to get in the next 12 months. The Magna has been a dutiful DD for me in the last almost 40k miles I have owned it, but I need a change (and my wife wants the Magna anyway, which gives me an out)
My Mitsubishi Magna (named Manny, for those playing at home) turns twelve this week, and just clocked over 240,000km yesterday.
What happens when you put a NA 13B into a 3472 lb (1575 kg) full size sedan? Not a lot.
Top speed was 103mph, fuel economy was terrible (reports suggest 9mpg (26L/100km), and at the time, cost twice as much a new Cosmo.
I'm looking at retiring the Magna and getting into something more interesting. Among other vehicles, I am considering a '03-'07 Saab 9-5 (ideally a MY04/05 9-5 SportEstate, pre-MY06 update), and, to a lesser extent, a MY03-on 9-3 (less so for its GM overtones).
Supercharged 6.2L LSA pumping out 430kW (576hp) and 740nm (546lb-ft) with the option of a TR6060 manual or 6L90E auto, the HSV Gen-F GTS puts out an additional 105kW/190nm over the outgoing LS3-equipped HSV E3 models, and breaks the record for Australia's most powerful production car (previously held by HSV's limited…
18x7 Mitsubishi ZG Outlander XLS rims on my '01 Magna
Beige family sedans are in right now, right?
