It’s always the grey/silver cars too. They become ghosts with all the water spray.

Subaru just has the headlights on the keyed 12v. When you shut the car off, the lights go off. In the 20 years of owning them I think I’ve shut the lights off manually maybe 15 times.

Back in the day I used a thermoelectric plate in-between my CPU and waterblock to keep things all nice and chilly. You will possibly need a separate PSU to feed it as well as a bunch of insulation and dielectric grease to prevent condensation.

Mitsubishi was on the forefront of cam outside tech with the early EVO engines. 

They did state there was a possible injector pump failure. If that stuck open your options are stop the Airflow (good luck) or spray a CO2 fire extinguisher at the intake and hope that it chokes it.

It’s basically a time bomb. Turn the key and hope it holds together until the end of the run. 

Because German. 

To be fair, if you can't love youself you can't love others. 

That’s why it’s a fantastic sleeper. 

The blue van with the tilted windows and roof basket needs it’s own article.

Well, there are shit aftermarket parts and quality ones. She wasn’t shopping ebay for hers. 

Look at the tire. It’s about to debead from the rim. Daily use? If you have a lift and a garage to swap out all the arms and such, maybe. That’s HIGHLY unlikely in the limited space of Japan.

Not that modifications raise the selling price so...

It’s fine if they were trailer queen show cars. It’s not fine when you destroy a car’s ability to operate then use it on public streets putting others at risk. Some use these fundamentally broken cars as daily drivers. They can’t get up curb cuts, the parts are stressed beyond their intended purpose and they can’t…

The motor is what clued me in. When I worked at a building that shared space with a solar tracking company they were all over the place.

As a dog owner and one that just had dinner at a restaurant that had a wonderful, big Newfoundland that would roam around the restaurant, I’m with you. That big pup was awesome, didn’t bother anyone and she just did her own thing.

I disagree with #1.

I’m betting on electric linear actuator over hydraulics. The fiberglass bedside isn’t heavy enough to plumb a separate hydro system just for that.

It’s as much a Prius as some of the subaru rally cars. 

Traction, contact patch, screwed up geometry...