Which 1996 Honda motorcycle makes 121 hp and over 93 ft-lbs of torque, exactly?

Side note for you:
Harleys aren’t my thing, but I can tell you that in my experience as a service manger for other brands in NYC, L.A. and the SF East bay area that my customers with Harleys as well as my service employees who were previously at Harley dealers (as both service writers and mechanics) have confirmed…

If you’ve read a bunch of OEM TSBs you would know that manufacturers do that type of cheap fix all the time.

Most cars are absolutely designed to be repaired, in varying degrees. Crashed, too. And maintained.
Some are better than others about this but believe me, as a mechanic I’ve seen and worked on the cars that placed a higher priority on ease of maintenance, repairs and crash repairs. Thats a big reason why I don’t own a…

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That’s a lot of words to say that you missed the entire point

I mean, I don’t like them either but being a college kid on a $21k budget and needing a reliable AWD car, having that new car warranty (and not having the used car worry of whether the DPO maintained or abused it) is worth a lot of peace of mind.

Low mileage or not, those head gaskets are 9 years old. And the 2.5 NA motor is known for blowing head gaskets. Just looked at one last week, under 100k, overheating at idle and blowing coolant out of the (brand new) radiator as soon as you step on the gas.

As a longtime professional mechanic I would take the $21k…

There are usually no personal or professional consequences for officers who do shit like this. The city (or their insurers) pay out millions of taxpayer dollars, officers face no consequences, if the city tries to punish the officer their police union gets it nullified in arbitration and if the officer commits a crime…

This reply is years late, but yeah, the wheel arch cladding comes right off. No holes. And the GS front bumper cover bolts up with a couple of small changes (no driving lights).

For a new car in 2021, 0-60 in 9.7 places this car firmly among the slowest new cars for sale today for that price. Can people manage? Sure. People buy 11 second Toyota C-HRs and 10.5 second Nissan Kicks.

But why would anyone pick this short range, slow, overpriced dog over the multitude of better, faster, longer…

Even if it sells for $26k after incentives it’s totally not competitive for range or acceleration with a Bolt, which has been selling for that same price.

I have no idea where you live but a 10 second 0-60 MPH is dog slow in the US, and inadequate for merging onto highways in many of our major cities, where on ramps are often short and traffic is frequently doing 75 mph/120 kph or higher outside of rush hour. Houston, Philadelphia, the NYC and DC metro areas, Los…

Everyone needs to accelerate onto a highway onramp and everyone needs to pass people from time to time. The triple whammy of high cost, short range *and* dog slow are gonna doom this thing to sales failure here.

The oldest Bolt is a 2017, so if you’ve clocked 100,000 miles on a Bolt in less than 4 years you’re doing lots of high drain highway miles, and lots of charging and duty cycles - like over 500 10% to 80% cycles, with a rough estimate of a little under 200 miles per charge.

Yep, spot on. It’s a compliance car. I suspect some truly screaming lease deals will show up eventually, to move units off of dealer lots. And depreciation for off lease units will be like an anvil dropping off a cliff, considering it’t not remotely competitive even when new so it’ll be even less so 3 or 4 years from…

It’s not 1986 anymore. When most of the competition is doing 0-60 in 6.5 seconds 9.7 seconds is an eternity.

You’re spending $45k to get smoked 0-60 by a teenager in a 9 year old Honda Fit they bought with their allowance.

This is going to flop in the US market. Who is the target market for this here?

Everything is likely controlled by a can-bus BCM (body control module) of some type. There is no sensor, tracking usage is just a matter of counting the number of times someone presses the button and comparing that number to the total number of hours the car is turned on.

Toyota’s hydrogen push seems destined for failure - even in states where there is some refueling infrastructure it’s so limited that a single incident can strand thousands of hydrogen vehicles for weeks. Like this 2019 incident did, in the san francisco bay area: