Brake’s are boosted by hydroboost. You do have power brakes, but no vacuum brake booster on the firewall.

Hah, the perfect thread to spam my Centurion E-350 truckvan abomination in. I’m a dorky cab-over 80s Japanese van guy and have never really looked at American cars/vans my whole life. A lot of my friends send me old/odd van sales listings since to most people, all vans look alike. Well one day a friend sent me a…

My 2004 XJR. Went into the local Jag dealership at 25 to see the new XF in the flesh. Salesman started chatting with me-”They are surprisingly affordable! They start in the 60s!” Being a smartass, I said: “Nope. The only thing I would want and could afford in a Jag would be a used current generation XJR, and I checked…

Given where it’s made, it’s not Tony, but...

FIATS are hunks of junk. Period.

I was satisfied to confirm the quality of Fiats and VWs in these stories.

Ahhh the Corolla story takes me back.

That last WRX story is insane. I live in the upper Midwest and have hit/slain a small host of whitetail deer at speed, most memorably in a Camaro and an A4 quattro. On both of those occasions I was going at least 60, hit the animal with the front driver’s side of the car, and the deer died before even making it to the…

The first WRX story is idiotic....he’s against WRXs and Subaru because he bought a POS modified one....OK. Also the second one, he hits a deer and flames....any car could do that.

Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner/Mazda Tribute Hybrid did that, too, though AWD wasn’t as common. I think the GS and LS sedans also offer AWD with hybrid.

I’ll raise you a Honda Insight, same generation.

Honda CR-Z. If it had managed to be an actual successor to the original CRX... what a car that could have been.

130 Horsepower. Just... It’s supposed to be a sports car and it has less power than a base model Dodge Neon.

All it needs is a decent engine and a decent manual transmission. I say manual because the CVT is fine per CVT standards, but the 5 speed is an abomination with its drunk-esque precision and total lack of clutch feel.

Who needs a convertible top anyway?

Never ever ever leave my phone/wallet/keys in car, plus manual so theft proof anyways amirite

It should go without saying that the value of your life is always greater than the value of your car, but some people need to be reminded. She was lucky.

For $9,000, I could literally build two PCs more powerful than this laptop, plus gloriously good monitors, and have enough money left over to hire someone off of TaskRabbit to carry them to wherever I was going to be for a year.

It is a shame this happened to him and his car. One thing to take away from this is thank goodness he was one of the good guys who took his racing to a track. Can you imagine what could have happened if this had happened in a street race? Be like Greg here, take it to the track. If something goes wrong then that might…