When I first saw renderings of the PT Cruiser I honestly thought it was supposed to be mini van size, on the Caravan platform. Like a modern Willy’s van.  I was baffled to see it was so small when it was built.

Weirdly, I always preferred non Westies/enders for a habitable vehicle. None of the actual camper stuff is all that useful, plus cooking inside sucks. The extra ventilation is nice, but solar fans are a thing now. And you get way more storage than the closet under the bed. Can’t access from the back tho.  In return,…

Belts are not as difficult as their reputation suggests. Valves ARE a pain in the ass if you need to go to the dealer to swap shims around.

This is the thing, most EV’s are too MUCH car for my daily needs. Something like a bigger golf cart would be 100% fine for my use case. Maybe something like a Smart, but with a cargo area size wise. Could top out at 60 or so and have a a weeks worth of range + a little, which for me would be 200ish. I don’t need an…

If we got the Euro market cars, I’d have nothing to complain about most likely. 

Pretty sure most of the folks who comment here that 400+ hp is barely adequate couldn’t make a single WFO lap with an analog 400 hp car to save their lives.

But the E28 looked a million times better doing it. And 286 HP is perfectly adequate for a street driven car, unless you’re an asshole who is literally going to speed every chance you get.

Maybe because I’ve been riding liter bikes for 40 years, but if fast acceleration is all you have, that gets old eventually. Balanced power and handling doesn’t. 

If you want a Cougar, maybe start with one that’s not already ruined. For $50K I’m pretty sure you can still get a stock 68 GT390. Which will hold it’s value, unlike a restomod. The El Camino and S10 might be decent deals depending. I’d assume for $13K there’s a LOT of rust on that bus, because even for a 1970 it’s…

passenger to choose a song to listen to

All those lights and radios aren’t free. Plus the partition and rear glass replacement.

When I was a youngster, all the DARE cars were drag cars.  They would take them out for ‘public engagement”, but it was just taxpayer funded drag nights.

Jesus, that Wing only has 18K. Barely broken in. How much are they new now? Must be $30k, right? I used to have customers that would put 50k miles a year on these.

Vented front seats would be nice, but the dog doesn’t need vents in back.

What usually happens is that they see how late you’re braking and it gives them more confidence. Sometimes they get too confident though. Still, anytime you’re under acceleration they are eating your lunch generally.

You can get in a 7 for as much or as little as you want. I paid for the labor to build my frame with beer and bbq and Johnny Cashed the rest. Of course, it’s a car of Theseus now, but you don’t need to keep tinkering.

Honestly, you don’t feel extra vulnerable in one. Especially if you ride bikes as well. There’s just so much grip. Mine didn’t really start to get squirrely until after 250 horses or so. I had 350/350 in it for a week just for fun, but it just spun like a dreidel. But you never feel it’s going upside down.

More power for what? It’s a street car. So you can pull harder from 30 to 60?

Hard to overstate how disinterested I am in the C8.  No interest in the running costs of tracking one, and you can’t use any of the performance legally on the street. There’s no use case for me.

I buy quality tires. I just prefer much smaller ones than everyone else. 14s and 15s for me.