Sometimes a classic just shouldn’t change. I don’t want ‘new blue jeans’ or improved converse sneakers.

Any reason the diesel engine has the valves inline with the piston stroke rather than angled valves and a domed/wedge piston?

Soviet era cars are timeless:

Does a diesel engine have a spark plug?

...the rest of the air fuel mixture is compressed to the point of spontaneous combustion. This is literally what knock is.

This will decimate all... especially if combined with FreeValve. If we have to, overnight parts from Sweden.

No. It’s a marketing scam. As soon as you introduce a spark plug to initiate the combustion event, it’s not compression ignition, no matter how hard you try to spin it.

I guess maybe we didn’t?

Seems legit. Can I put that in the back seat so my daughter can shift like daddy?

I still don’t get why more people don’t want big sedans with V8.

It was an example of what our cars could have been if we wouldn’t have gotten so fat and lazy and concerned about gas prices

Think back to the early days of cars. When stern mustachioed gentlemen thought long and deeply about what it was that a car needed to be.

FWIW I learned to drive stick on a ‘71 ZAZ 966 with leaking clutch hydraulics (had to pump it a bit sometimes), and a reversed shift pattern on a very crude tractor-like gear shift (by the 968M as seen in the image the shift pattern was more conventional apparently) .

That hatch also has the famous twin rear wings, so you can feel like you’re driving arond a Fokker biplane, if that’s your thing.

Sooooo, whats the best way to get rid of carbon buildup in the combustion chamber?

You can bore out the cylinder and used oversize pistons, though in some cases, you may be able to get away with a hone job and some new rings.

Also take note in the beach assault test somehow the Fiesta does not hydrolock even with water coming up over the hood and seeping through the door. The Fiesta makes it to the beachhead with a full load of Marines.

I once chased a viper with my 200hp civic at VIR. Every straight, he’d be gone, every corner I’d be on his ass. This lasted the whole 20 minute session. A good driver would have simply smoked me from the get go.

Here in the US they were the quirky choice that said something about its owner, someone who thought differently, was more practical, more thoughtful, and didn’t mind standing out a bit while doing it.

And most times on road trips, the car is ready before I am done going to the bathroom or getting a snack.