The comparison was in concept only. Not a numbers comparison.

Here come the comments about people bitching about a lack of a turbo.

According to another article here it’s “You track it, something breaks, we’ll badly repair it under warranty twice and then stalk you on facebook and hold your car hostage the third time”

RX-8 reliability shoots way up once you do the external propulsion mod.

I wonder if he had both hands on the wheel or if he was.... you know.... stroganoff.

Already showed up a Wrangler, though I expect that was more due to my off-road driving experience than the vehicle. My neighbor HAD what I informed my wife was to be called a “mall-crawler”. Big snow storm hits, so in order to better clear my driveway, I put the Jeep in 4WD and proceed to back onto my lawn, but…

Significant others should not get a free pass to drive crap cars. My now wife was about to buy a brand mew neon when I met we 20 years ago. I talked her out of that horrid idea, after She had a Dealer go and get the car she wanted, but n the car showed up, she’s claimed it smelled like body odor. She backed out of the…

I’m agree about the fuel pump - hot laps and autox didn’t kill it.

Fuel level too low, I’ve noticed on tracks with a lot of turns or higher bankings it can cause damage if done enough because of the fuel sloshing around and not staying in the pump. It’s really rare but I’ve seen it cause failures. Albeit enough i can count on one hand though.

Very well then. Enjoy the fossilization process.

Seems pretty weak to me to be honest. When I was a young, dumb kid I had a ‘94 Thunderbird and a stretch of road with plenty of peaks sufficient to catch some air, and in my young, dumb kidness, I took advantage of that many times without breaking anything on the car once. “Ram tough” my ass.

The dealer is reacting poorly because they feel the customer is getting more work out of them than is fair, but the truth is if they had fixed the shit right the first time it wouldn’t be coming back.

I hear, ya. For most day to day driving, torque > HP.

when my dad died, I got a grand caravan handed down to me. At first I hate it, and never really drove it and kept it home. Fast forward two months, my car got totaled, and I started driving that van around, it was slow and lame and dorm mates kept asking you to drive to dinner or on weekends since it fits so many…

There’s always the option to replace a car you hate. Yeah, you might piss off Grandma who gave you her cherished, low-mileage ‘82 Chevy Citation, and you might piss off mom and dad for getting rid of a low-mileage car that “runs just fine, I don’t get what your problem is”, but you most certainly can get rid of it,…

I bought a car that I thought that I would like to commute an hour to a job I thought I would love...I hated that job, and thus grew to hate the commute. Soon after I hated the 2013 base Jetta manual that I bought brand new to drive there.

Yeah - it feels kind of like a bar that’s slightly more dangerous: too much booze, too many people, lots of potentially flammable substances, too many heated arguments, etc. DangerBar!

Sorry, Cobra, didn’t mean this for you, but for the pedantic weasel who you were also replying to.

or, as we saw in the Dallas police office shooting in 2016, in the turmoil of an actual attack, there’s no way to tell who is a “good guy” with a gun vs a “bad guy”.

Whether or not a few people could sneak some guns in isn’t the point. Twithead’s argument was that terrorists couldn’t do anything at a Nascar race because the entire crowd is armed and would shred the terrorist before he could do anything, no matter where in the crowd he is. That argument requires a certain…