Omega Crack Pipe.  It’s a ho hum 175hp turbo 4 cylinder, which is the first embarrassing thing about this.  That brake upgrade?  This car can’t even go fast enough to need it.  2 years old and they made it fuglier than the factory.  If that was their goal, they nailed it.

Nice.  I love the Fox Body based Thunderbird.  In my opinion it was the best looking of the fox body based cars.  Would still love to own another one.  If I did I’d want either a 5.0, coyote swap 5.0, ecoboost 2.3, or go with a 351.

Neutral: Of course EV production will cause a rift in the industry.  Now is the time for those working at a factory building engines or repairing them to expand their knowledge and have a backup plan.  Eventually there will be no internal combustion engines in the automotive industry.  Not sure when that will be, but…

I think that they should do more of them just to spite you.

I daily drive a 22 year old car and none of that is an issue.  Then again it depends on the car.

A blindfold so that you don’t have to see how hideous it looks.

Those are about as reliable as a Seagate HDD.

If you can get past the extreme fugliness, that would check all his boxes.

Is it a turbo coupe, or the 5.0?  I had a 3.8 88 Thunderbird, then an 89 Thunderbird (3.8 also), and a 97 Thunderbird (4.6L with a PI intake from a mustang along with some other modifications).  Love those cars.

He mentioned he wanted something with a warranty.  Some of the staff suggestions are great, but not all of them have a warranty.

Take a unreliable hunk of dog shit, and slap a blower on there.  It’ll be fine they said.  Rob Ford called from his grave, and said he wants his crack pipe collection back.

If she disappeared from the media tomorrow and stopped making “music”, I’d shed zero tears.

Never was a fan, then she opened her mouth and came up with the whole not vaccinating her kid bullshit, and now I’m really not a fan.

Provided that the car doesn’t have any major issues and not too many minor issues that affect reliability, I’d say that this is an easy Nice Price.

Here’s straight from CARB; https://ww3.arb.ca.gov/msprog/aftermkt/aftermkt.htm

That’s my main issue with CARB.  It’s a cash grab and screws both the consumer as well as the manufacturers over.  Hell that is one reason why I’d never even consider moving to CA, among others.

My issue with California emissions, is if you have an aftermarket part that would otherwise pass their smog test, and they don’t have that carb number on the part, they still fail it.  It’s not cheap to get a part carb approved, and in the end it just fucks over the consumer and the companies who manufacture parts…

If you are talking about ignition timing, that’s the only good case for using that word.  Otherwise it just makes you look like a punter.

Acura doesn’t exist in Japan.  It’s the same with Infiniti and Lexus.

I feel the same way.