My wife always tells me that she wants to drive her cars until the wheels fall off. So, I guess this might be her next vehicle.
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I’m actually happy that Lamborghini has managed to stick with NA engines instead of following the rest of the industry in going turbocharged. A good NA engine is becoming a rare thing these days.
Warming up for five minutes, are you nuts? They overheat after six, that’s too long warming up.
Agreed fully.
WELL ACKSHULLY they’re both Porsche Cayennes, so.
The Urus is not a Lamborghini, it’s a VW Touareg. Change my mind.
and Lamborghini’s committed to staying away from turbochargers.
Everything they’re adamant about not doing, they shunt to Maserati.
Ferrari has done a good job of staying away from SUVs though, so there’s that.
The future is strange and EV’s have ruined it for me. Every new muscle car / performance car or thought of me tuning another project car immediately feels pointless when there are a crap ton of regular people driving to Starbucks in their Model 3 that’ll blow my doors off without even noticing I hit the gas.
That’s already more passing than a whole season of F1.
The things that struck me about Signal Auto, the few times I passed by there, was that they had female mechanics working on cars (a rarity at the time) and they had people just hanging out, talking about cars. I’m not sure why it seemed original, much like a barber shop or record shop, maybe because most service shops…
Damn. Right in the feels. I remember when I first saw the Signal Strawberry faced s-13 twins and the Signal R34. Me and my parents had just moved to a small town 40 mins North of Seattle. It was my first day of 8th grade. First period was science class. I didnt know anyone. The kid sitting next to me had pictures of…
Awesome article Kristen. This really made me miss the old days. I started getting into the import scene around 2003ish, and then drifting a few years later. Signal was always there. The famous Signal GTR blew my mind the first time I saw it and I still remember that day like it was yesterday.
Great piece of Nostalgia. I got my first “tuner” car in the 90's (Mitsubishi Eclipse and my last one in 2007. So between three DSM cars (‘90 Eclipse GS, ‘97 Eclipse GSX & ‘92 Eagle Talon TSi), three Subaru’s (‘04 WRX and ‘05 Legacy GT) and my ‘97 MK4 Supra Turbo that I got in 2002. The mid 90's to mid 2000's was…
Reading these articles about the golden age of import tuning always gives me so many feels.
I can’t help but find the Signal story so fascinating for so many reasons.
Dealers shot themselves in the foot with markups the same way they did with the Civic type R. Add on to that the “haggle free experience” and it doesn’t take alot to figure out why no one is buying. Who in their right mind is going to pay a $50K markup?
The concept is cool, but it just doesn’t interest me. There’s better gas cars for less money, and better electric cars for less money. If you wanted head snapping acceleration, there’s the Tesla model S ludicrous for $114K. And I think nearly every brand offers something amazing to drive at the 100k mark.