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About 3 miles/lb coal, or 0.38 miles per scf natural gas. Although, you could also get a full charge with the equivalent of 10 minutes on your average industrial wind turbine.

With a 6 speed sequential mounted in the back seat driving the rear wheels. I wonder where they found it???

IIRC there is no relay for the headlights, so all that juice goes though the headlight switch, which is fed through the ignition (key on power only), which would spark and degrade the contacts every time you turn it, eventually killing the whole car's electrical system. Some of the actual Alfa owners can probably…

How many cars can you think of less reliable than a GTV6? I can think of none. None less reliable than the Alfa GTV6.

He bought a Ferrari, put 56,000 miles on it over 18 years, then sold it for $600k? I think Mr. Sinn gets a pass - he used the hell out of his car for 18 years, put it away for a while, then sold at a huge profit. Winner in my book.

Ooooooohhhhh...........

We're getting much better at making things. The threshold for recall has just gotten really low, and recalls are much more publicized.

The guts are not incredibly rare. The housing is unique to the W8, so you can't just go pluck one out of a junkyard. Just means that you have to rebuild your old housing if something breaks. Although - you have to drop the engine and subframe to get the trans out anyway, so I guess the extra downtime isn't that big…

New Supra

This car is pretty much the Jalopnik holy triumvirate, being an eight-cylinder, manual, wagon but good luck finding one, since around 100 were made. If you do end up finding one, good luck maintaining it!

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They are surprisingly cheap. Usually 10 or so for sale somewhere in the country at any given time. Decent condition wagons with sport package (not very sporty, but bigger bars and beautiful wheels) with ~120k miles are worth $5-6k.

Automatic. But its running great. Put the blizzaks on for winter a few weeks ago, and finally worked out that VW OEM wipers are the only ones that actually work on the damn thing. Other than the usual B5.5 bullshit, its a great car.

Can confirm. Most graceful, controllable snow drifts of any car I've ever driven.

And all of them seem to live in SW Detroit.

103. Although less than 100 still running....

Maybe - a diesel golf will use less fuel per mile than the gas version, but do the same amount of damage to the road.

In the US, that is correct. Fuel taxes in the US are earmarked to fund highway maintenance. The tax on diesel was made higher than the tax on gas because heavy trucks, the main consumers of diesel, do significantly more damage to the road per gallon of fuel used than passenger cars, which use mainly gas. The taxes…