Okay - that’s a point. But you can get a metal cam gear and that particular Achilles’ heel gets sorted once and for all, or come back with factory replacements since they don’t just up and die on their first day or even, generally, their first decade.  I think they went with plastic on the one to eliminate most of the…

“This was the fully loaded model,” except FWD and 4-cylinder. Are you using the same “fully loaded” concept as the rest of us?

I did some growing up driving a Duke. It was solid. Not powerful, but solid.

I have to argue with the Prius.  It isn’t powerful, no - but it is dogged and relentless.  Mine has over 260,000 miles and is going strong.

My truck didn’t come with a passenger side mirror, so I bought one and installed it with sheet metal screws. When the screws wore through the metal, I moved up a size. When those screws wore out, I installed a few rivnuts.

The Subaru EJ25 (first-gen) in my ‘98 Forester damn near killed me, budget-wise. Head gaskets, ignition issues, hoses, hoses again, spark plugs (a bigger problem than you realize, as it requires tentacles to get them back in), etc.

I remember driving a Chevy van with the 6.2 diesel V8 under the doghouse for a couple of months. I don’t know for certain if it was the engine, the transmission or the fact that the van itself was outfitted like a brothel (and itself was donated to us by a pastor), but that entire vehicle was just wretched. Slow,…

At first I thought this would just be a little expose of the quintessential Torch Selected Glances Askance, but no - many Jalops have not just input but experience and insight on this esoteric topic.

That right there’s an interesting book written with no editing.

That Polara looks like a whale shark, caught in the act of swallowing a Jeep.

Finally, an easy one that doesn’t require I grapple with my emotional response.

The solution, of course, is for no one anywhere to buy one of the goddamn things for one cent over sticker. Nobody - let me be clear, nobody - needs a Bronco or Wrangler. Especially not one that’s marked above MSRP.

You’re completely right about that; it’s been so long since I had a loan I’ve kind of lost touch with the state of that state. Even so however, there’s always the chance - likelihood, with the Delta variant flaring up - that job situations will change regardless of how steady a state the loan is. Incomes can become…

There’s EFI setups that go on in place of the existing intake, nearly plug-and-play, that opens up that engine to all manner of tuning.  They appear to be completely reversible, too, so you don’t have to do anything permanent to the engine to yank it into the latest century.

2K revs in a flat-12 sounds like 6k in a four-banger. There’s a whole lot going on all at once, as it were, in a mill with this many cylinders.

“Right now.”

Lending Meltdown II: Economic Boogaloo.

300 foot oil tender, maybe.  

The seller is clearly flipping a car he got for a song, for a longer and louder song.

Are radiator’s in this monster’s future, or is it just going to live its life 400 meters at a time?