Rod Millen’s Pikes Peak RX7...

Going along the same lines as Tom, what you really need is a Suzuki Cappuccino, not a Honda Beat.

I’m not even a BMW fan, but can appreciate that this could be fun to daily drive. Just not $35K worth of fun. It’s still just a modded 3 Series wagon with an engine swap that’s really clean. Just thinking of all the cool cars I could get for that kind of money makes this a hard pass.

I had an ‘88 Turbo with the Lotus suspenson tuning, which I picked up used in ‘92, when it was still pretty fresh. It really was a great looking car, inside and out, especially with those adjustable pods on either side of the thick rimmed, leather trimmed steering wheel with all the controls at your fingertips, aside…

I had one exactly like this, an 88 Turbo in Red.

As a former Impulse owner, I actually did know that.

Usually, it’s because someone is booting up Windows 10 from a 5400 RPM laptop drive on a dual-core laptop with 4GB of RAM while loading every background app known to man. If you don’t have at least 8GB of RAM and an SSD in your laptop (or your desktop) nowadays, you’re just wasting time.

Hell, he might be from Montana and just mails it in cause his parents still live there. Still, a road trip to Montana in an F40 is much cheaper than finding a guy to “smog” your car in CA.

Seeing as how someone else said this car has been seen at SF cars and coffee...he’s probably a software engineer at some big tech company and has plenty of income, but still can’t afford to buy a house anywhere in the Bay area (like most people working up there), so he lives in an apartment he can actually afford, or…

If he’s in CA, it’s probably for smog dodging, not tax dodging. I’m sure he’s paying plenty of CA tax buying gas for the thing all the time.

78K on a Legend? It’s barely broken in! I still think Acura made a serious mistake in not continuing with the Legend name, or the Integra name, for that matter. They were both great names for cars that people still remember, which won’t be said of any of their alphabet nonsense names other than NSX.

And interesting note on the Mid-4 prototypes. The Mid-4 version 1 from 1985 had a tranverse mounted VG30DE, whereas the Mid-4 version II from 1987 used the VG30DETT, but longitudinally mounted (see below). Looks like those big scoops on either side of the car fed the rear mounted intercoolers, which have some really…

I often regret selling that car, it was really a blast to drive! I just didn’t have the space to keep it, at the time. If I’d kept all the cars I’ve owned, I’d need a small warehouse to keep them all in!

The Mid-4's interior design seems to have went into the 300ZX as well. They’re not identical, but you can see the resemblance, right down the controls in pods on either side of the wheel.

How bout, “I laid down the rapelay on this “insert V8 powered car here” last night”. A term a friend of mine and I picked up from anime, but used to describe Japanese turbo cars owning American V8 cars in freeway encounters.

Damn, people can’t take a joke these days! Did I need a /s or a ;)?

It’d probably suffer some weird ass penalty for being too reliable.

A word you Mopar guys are intimately familiar with, since it’s the only way you’ll see 1/10th of this kind of mileage.

Having owned a first gen example at one point in my life, myself, I can’t say that I’m really surprised. Mine was a 1991 model that I purchased when it was 8 years old and a little shy of 90K on the clock in 1999. Even at that age, it felt more solid than my girlfriends then new Volvo S70 T5. So much so that she often…

Only 5 lbs of boost because we didn’t do anything to lower compression or add more fuel, so any more will probably blow up the motor. Borg-Warner “style” because it’s a Chinese turbo off eBay we got for a couple hundred bux. Which is why we just left off the air filter...why bother? It’s gonna blow up, anyway!