Honestly, car design had a bit of a Renaissance in the 80s. It reignited the experimental attitude of the mid 60s, where people would look at a squash and be like... I could make that a car. A lot of good and iconic stuff came out of those periods. The 60s had the vette and jags that distilled the eua de sportscar…

The problem with being loaned a car isn't really the good will it generates in the reviewer... It's the fact that they know EXACTLY which car you're going to get, and can therefor go over it with a fine tooth comb to make sure everything is more right and tight than it may have been otherwise.  

I recently discovered our store did away with that crap, finally.  Though it has cameras to make sure you scanned something that occasionally go defcon 5 at random. 

I think of her morw as the "Get ready for a surprise!" woman.  Sadly, I don't have the gif for it. 

It's worse than all that.  The weird, ugly ass Honda cuv that my mother owns with the turbo 4 gasoline engine gets 30mpg combined.  Aside from this being slightly less ugly, there is zero reason to get it over the Honda.  Gas is cheaper per gallon, economy is pretty much the same between the two, and I'm betting the…

Good God, man, at least grab some windex and a rag and wipe down the engine bay a bit for 15k.  People are effing animals these days. 

Yeah, but then you have to own a cobalt. 

Call me when it has an xj220 engine in it

Also, US does make and use cabover, just not nearly as common.  We built some at our plant (which is also why we got to build the Megatron truck, while the main plant out west built Optimus). 

This is, however, the type of car that leads to its own endangerment over the years, often via boomer parents on vacation and a teenage kid who knows where the keys live.

That's true, but other oils are made to help suspend that dirt in the fluid, mitigating their impact of surfaces.  Wd40 will "dry out", or more accurately, soak in, I guess, leaving that dirt directly in contact with surfaces again.  That's why it's use as a lube only works for brief timing, and people assuming it…

It's an underrated classic.  When I worked at the truck plant, my hiring class actually wound up with TWO guys who got King of the Hill nicknames.  One guy we called Bobby because he had no chin and honestly looked like Bobby Hill with about 50 less pounds on him, and another guy was Boomhauer because he had some…

This is the best gif I've ever seen.  It's so beautiful I'm crying. 

Just an important fyi... Wd40 is not designed for and should not be used as a lubricant.  It will briefly work as one due to its properties, and is part of its ability to loosen rusted bolts, but if you need a lightweight lubricant for hinges or gears, etc... Use 3 in 1 oil, or light machine oil.  Wd40s lubricating…

Didn't even notice that!  Well, one is pretty useless without the other!  The light duty stuff uses hucks, but the heavy duty uses nutty bolts, with extra nuts. 

The smaller freightliner plant here in the US was putting out about half that daily. I assume the west coast plant makes a but more. 

Considering they also run freightliner and Thomas busses as well. 

We made military rigs at the freightliner plant, as well. The number of bolts holding just one suspension hanger on there is nuts. 

Euro roads tend to be much narrower, tighter, and inconvenient than US roads.  A cabover can maneuver with much less space than a long nose. 

Probably be OK at 12-1500.  If the trans was already changed by a previous owner, I'd want to know if it was an oem trans, since it seems like that could be a recurring problem.  Never been much love for izuzu, but it would make a good troop hauler or first car. Cracked screen is a hassle, and I'd probably go up to…