Yeah, my Miata consumes a quart of oil every 1,700 miles or so. 4,000 doesn’t sound bad at all.

Yes, my Miata. I’d wanted one for years, but being a gigging guitarist for years meant needing a car with some cargo capacity. Part of being in a band means accepting the fact that half of your bandmates are loser-y musician types who can’t afford a car and that you’ll probably have to cart around them and their gear…

Yes. All the time. Hell, it just happened last weekend riding along a two-lane country road in Monterrey County in a dusty 2002 F-350 crew cab 4x4 with a V10 and a manual transmission. Everything about it just felt so totally perfect for the setting. It was like, “I get you now, F-350.”

Haha, I do the “good job, friend” dashboard pat all the time.

I remember back in my Honda days, owners of ITRs and Integra GS-Rs would slip a business card or other blank paper/card over the little VIN window on the dashboard to prevent this kind of thing. I discovered my sun shield could be shoved down there to accomplish the same thing.

Anything more than $5k is crack pipe for a 996.

Change is neither good nor bad. It merely is.

Man, that thing is fugs. Stocky, squinty and buck-toothed. It reminds me of a tiny-headed, no-neck juicer at the gym in an Affliction shirt three sizes too small. Nothing elegant about it. The old 8-series looks much better.

I’m not a fan. Yes, the heat isn’t great for the tire. Also, the spare gets dirty as hell under the hood. And it’s one more thing to remove when you have to work on the engine. No, thanks.

The 840 solved some of the problems, since the V12 was pretty janky. But they still had electrical issues.

An LS (or Coyote) swap and replacing all the wiring and electronics might do the job.

Sounds pretty similar to how I treated my first car.

I’ve always thought they were gorgeous, but they were considered massively unreliable junk when they were brand new. Like, 30-year-old 928 levels of unreliability. Like, better off with a Jaguar levels of unreliability.

And just how is one expected to shift 17 times over the course of a minute with a PRNDL?

I don’t hate the GT, but I do think it’d be a more interesting car if it had been built around the 5.2 Voodoo. The Voodoo is such a cool engine, it’d be fun to see what it could do in something lighter and more focused than a 3,800lb. Mustang.

Yes, it is aging really well.

So, two of my friends had a late-’80s F-150 with this engine. Same truck, one friend ended up selling it to the other. Manual transmission.

Dude, 1964-1966 Mustang 289 convertible. Seriously, that and a Fender Jaguar, and you’re practically an honorary Beach Boy.

From the firewall forward, that thing could pass for an SUV.