Few things, biggest one for me is if the front license plate is boogered up you know it’s been in a crash :-P
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Or just waive the chicken tax in general if it’s got three pedals :-P
I read somewhere that the reason it had two ECUs (Actually three, there was a third one that coordinated things between each bank’s ECU) was at the time the ECUs weren’t fast enough to handle 12 cylinders with the level of control that BMW wanted.
Not disappointed to see this as the first comment :-P
I had an instructor who was from Illinois, anytime a student would say it “ill-a-noise” he’d pipe up and say “Oh, there’s two of them now?” or something equally snarky.
And also, David, I think what you need to do is come to Washington with a trailer that will haul 2-3 Jeeps, snag some rust free examples with drivetrain problems, haul ‘em back to Detroit and put the running gear out of your rusty ones in them, could probably make enough profit to finance the whole thing :-P I see XJs…
Whew, I have less cars than David so I have a few more to go before I have too many... 68 Dodge Polara convertible, 92 Dodge Ram W250, 99 Corolla, 05 Corolla, 94 Civic, 04 Prius :-P But they all run and drive! Three of those are getting sold though, gotta pay off the Prius :-P Then with the fuel $ I save with it I can…
What bugs me is when they get mechanical stuff wrong. For example, in the first season of Switched At Birth, don’t remember the episode (wife was watching it) one of the guys in the show was having trouble with his 80s Chevy pickup where it’d just crank and crank and not start occasionally. His girlfriend pokes at it,…
I’ve never seen the inside of a Voltec transaxle, but the transaxle in the Toyota hybrids has a planetary gearset known as the “power split device” that’s coupled to one of the generators, and it basically uses the two motor generators and the planetary gears to give you a sort of CVT, if memory serves me from the…
They had one for the 1ZZ in the Corolla as well, oddly enough it would not fit the Celica due to hood clearance, but it would fit the Corolla/Matrix. They also had one for the 2AZ but I think it was only officially for the Scion tC, I seem to recall in order to put it on a Camry you had to change the VIN to that of a…
I think the radical styling is for the smug “look at me! I bought a hybrid/EV” crowd that wants everyone to know they have a hybrid :-P
Recently shut down. Shutdown is a noun.
The AWD Highlander Hybrids are this way too - second electric motor in the rear with no driveshaft.
If I could have the off-road capability of a Range Rover, the reliability of a Toyota Corolla, a fuel tank big enough for 1200 or so miles of cruising range, the fuel economy of a Prius, and a sound system that makes the car into a rolling concert hall, with a manual transmission and a price I could afford, I’d be…
My wife’s grandfather was an Italian from Long Island and he drove a Grand Cherokee :-P Although he was actually from Philly, he just lived on Long Island :-P Funny thing is the area they lived, he had a loaded Grand Cherokee and his wife has a Lexus RX350 and they were like, the crappiest cars in the neighborhood :-P…
I like how these cars feature a “chronometer”, because clocks are for peasants.
They have this in the Vista Ridge Tunnel on 26 in Portland, OR... Used to drive me nuts that I could drive through the tunnel and not lose my satellite radio (The retransmitter carried the XM terrestrial signal) but every overpass on 405 would make it cut out for a split second
Washington State to Alaska via the Alcan Highway or a big epic road trip that covers all 50 states. Dunno about the car, knowing me it’ll be a Subaru :-P
This is when you come out to the PNW and find one with a blown engine or something for dirt. Hell, come with a big enough trailer you can collect more than one, sell the other shell and you could probably recoup your $.