More tasteful interior color options would be wonderful. Though I am amused somewhat by the idea of 70's style bordello red velour interiors in a new Escalade or something.

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Into the fiery orb with ye.

They’re soon to experience a dearth of working-age people as bad or worse than Japan due to the One Child Policy, so I imagine this is to hedge against that.

That’s what a sawzall and a couple trips to the scrapyard solve.

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That’s what I was gonna say- when the familiar funny noises change suddenly, then stop.

...and I thought the ‘48 was peak sketch.

Your car becomes ‘old’ when getting in and turning the key is more and more frequently followed by asking ‘Oh, what fresh hell?’ rather than just... driving.

Problem is many of those cars returned to their elements years ago because nobody really gave a shit about them. Torch has posted about some fugitives from the law of averages like that pristine Tempo, but a lot of their novelty arise purely because they’re just not around anymore.

“It’s not a tenement, it’s multi-family co-living!”

I had a ‘95 and can concur. The rockers on the car are in the ad are in decent shape, and while the spare tire well rust is concerning I frankly would be more surprised if didn’t have rust there. Mileage is a little high for my taste but I don’t think the price is exceedingly CP.

I agree, I realized I can’t even recall the last time I saw a fourth gen Civic up here in the land of salt, nevermind a clean and relatively unmolested example. For the right person I’m sure this is or will soon be a cherry buy.

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The Versatrak AWD system would make it CP all day every day. It’s a German engineered system built with early 2000s GM ‘quality’. I own one and I’m telling you to stay away, nothing but headaches. Same thing goes for the Rendezvous with Versatrak, or so I’ve heard.

I’m not seeing a COTS gas turbine that would fit this application. It would require a clean sheet design and still introduces new design challenges and cost. The efficiency isn’t going to scale well either. See this study for more.

These (and the Syclone/Typhoons) are almost eerily quiet from a spectator’s perspective (at least the ones I’ve seen). The first time I watched a few on the strip I thought they were electric conversions or something, but nope.

That just sounds like manufacturing. I deal with this shit everyday although I’m in the heavy truck and construction/ag side.

It’s a human thing; if it exists, eventually someone will come along and want to see how fast it can be done.

Torch would have an in depth article on how he noticed there’s like different turn signal blink tempos and finds that depending on what plant made them on what day of the week there’s an identifiable pattern.