So 24-36 people complaining(in an area SPECIFICALLY FOR COMPLAINING) out of thousands means that it’s a big problem? Nice scope there. Just like how everyone was terrified of the Focus RS head issue when under 40 people could actually be found to have actually had an issue out of thousands of cars sold. That’s like…

Looking at a section specifically about issues is a horribly way to judge a cars overall quality. If you do that for every car then literally.. every car, looks “plagued with issues”.

Depends on how you classify “hayday”. 2nd gen may have sold better but was more popular in 4th and 5th gen. The 2nd gen also had a lot less good competition.

Yes there was. There was the Prelude SH, Civic si, and Integra Type R all at once. The CRX Si also overlapped.

It needs an ILX coupe with a 6spd, LSD and balls.

Yeah it was, even when they re-rated it from 305 to 310 it was under rated. but could you imagine if it had about another 15-20 on top of that?

Different engines and engine bays. They were both DOHC Zetec but the Focus had a different accessory setup and didnt have exhaust VCT. The Roush Focus ended up being something that was already ready for Nitrous(dumb), and the SVT Focus was supposedly a detuned version of what they were testing in the ZX2 SVT. The…

That was in the late 80's and it was not a sport compact car in the sub 20K market.

Ford could have had the first FI 230+HP late 90's early 00's Sport compact (Ford/Roush ZX2 Fusion, supercharged 2.0 w/ 230hp) and NA 200hp 2.0(SVT ZX2, cancelled project, numbers are from a SVT Engineer that later commented on it) on the markets.

Honestly I had hi-rev cams in an Escort and the RPM gauge didn’t keep up. I guess it depends on the mechanics behind that gauges design. It’s odd brick walling into a 7500RPM rev limiter in an Escort when the tach still says about 6k.

I”ve never been to your state and I never plan to be. have you even seen how many “Bad Drivers of South Carolina” videos there are on Youtube? Over 260.. of JUST your state. Ya’ll can’t even DRIVE let alone use a weapon properly.

I see the “gentlemen’s agreement” on power to be the reason we can say the same about build quality, MPG and handling. No HP wars to worry about they had to sell their cars on other factors.

Nissan is finally catching on well. They have a 2.0T variable compression engine now, and they have a 3.0V6 making 400HP (underrated, closer to 440 based on dynos) in some Infiniti cars.

If they keep the 100:1 ratio then a 240HP BRZ would be pretty much exactly what I had hoped the original was.

Reading many of these are alike a summary of things I learned over my driving life.

You mean 3rd gen Probe.

Those are mechanical junk.

Carolla XRS. Roomy, peppy, great reliability and manual.

Do we know he didn’t have any kind of medical emergency while driving?

Then get a bigger cap, my dads F250 could easily fit a cycle in it standing up. In fact it did when he bought one about 8 years ago.