About 10 or so years ago, my parents needed a car to tow behind their motorhome. I suggested that they buy a Toyota 4Runner or a Jeep Cherokee, something with a transfer case they could pop in neutral in order to tow it, instead of messing with electric hydraulic pumps for the transmisson etc (Mom didn’t want a manual…

It seems like the typical 80s Japanese car though, aside from the luxury stuff, most of them seemed to be just basic boring meh transportation. Nothing fancy, just something to get you from point A to point B with reasonable economy and reliability but little more than was needed for that task. 

You can get wrecked ones off Copart for even less, just gotta make sure it’s not one that someone bought for the battery and then relisted without disclosing it was missing the battery. 

I know the owner of that, it’s Stanley’s brother! (Stanley the Subaru 360 van) 

What about the land speed record Justy? https://autoweek.com/article/car-news/1988-1989-subaru-justy-lsr-salted-scooby

I think it’d be nice for things like making calls and getting directions etc but most smartphones already do this so I don’t see the point. 

Weird that the Forester is 210hp and the Legacy GT is 250, probably would not be terribly hard to beef up the output of the Forester.

I like the idea of them for the purpose of taking my wife, our three dogs, and all of our camping gear, wherever the f**k we want to camp, or to get to work regardless of weather conditions. But it’s not something I’d use as a daily, aside from having to take like 5 kids to school on the way to work or something (I’d…

I towed a 1968 Dodge Polara convertible on a trailer behind a 20 foot U-Haul. Got a whopping 9 mpg and I think 0-60 was something you’d need a calendar and a tape measure to find.

But how did it do taking Braxton to lacrosse practice? :-P 

There’s a barbie pink SN95 convertible at my work :-P I think it’s even a V6 slushbox!

I had the same issue. Had myself, my wife, and my wife’s cousin plus stuff for the two days we were spending in Arizona, we had overnight bags that fit in the back but her cousin’s suitcase had to go on the seat next to her because it wouldn’t fit in the back.. Like you can either have people in the back seat, or…

I got one as a rental car once, its only redeeming qualities were that I found it roomy, and could have hauled quite a bit around in it, and it was fairly comfortable... But it pretty much ended there, it drove like crap, it handled like crap (although it did navigate the “forbidden” section of the Hana Highway that…

I ticked the “economy” box when renting a car in Los Angeles once, to drive from LA to Arizona to visit my grandparents, ended up with a Spark. We laughed at it only having four seats, surmising the car would have trouble moving with 5 people in it, but in LA traffic it was awesome, was just fast enough it wasn’t…

I’d try the oil additive route and if it still does it randomly it may need work, but could have just been a fluke due to the oil cooler replacement, like a random air bubble in the system or something. And if that’s a 2GR-FE, I think on those you pretty much have to drop the whole subframe/engine…

How many miles are on it? I’ve seen them fail at 150-200,000 miles even with proper maintenance, but without they puke at like 80k. I took one of the actuators that failed apart once, it’s got 5 sided bolts on the cover but they are not very tight. I imagine if you smoothed out the groove that the pin wears in the…

That is super cool! I like the Vibe because they are cheaper to buy and cheaper to insure than the Matrix, even though they are the same car :-P Plus it’d appease my family who thinks I should buy an American car :-P Current daily is a Corolla, I so wish it had the 2zz instead of the 1zz that burns oil lol 

VVT-i (Variable Valve Timing with Intelligence) just varies the timing on the intake camshaft. When the car is shut off, the cam gets locked in a base timing position by a spring loaded pin in the camshaft sprocket, once it’s started and oil pressure builds the pin is retracted by oil pressure, unlocking the sprocket.…

Roughly 9 years ago, my mom’s oldest sister’s mother in law had to go into a nursing home, and as a result had to clear out and sell the house she’d lived in since the 50s. Since I was in the middle of a divorce, my grandparents decided they would save a bunch of the furniture and kitchen stuff for me. Only…

Double the price and then knock off the last digit and it’d be more realistic. I don’t think even a pristine low mileage first generation example would fetch close to this, and I’ve drooled over the early SHOs since they were new :-P