That’s a whole lot of nonsense just to say “we left some metal shavings in the engine and it ruined the main bearings.” It’s like an engineer used ChatGPT to write a press release. 

I’m surprised that they ever offered a turbo. Toyota tends to stick with rock solid reliable old school tech. Adding hybrid tech extends the lives of these dinosaur engines even further. Turbos always reduce reliability.

When you have a pretty stellar history and make a whoopsie you do get a bit of a pass. Especially if you make it right (Toyota frame rust?), but if you continually fuck up and don’t ever make it right, that is a bigger issue.

That could be a very expensive recall for the company, if they can’t find a solution that is less involved than rebuilding or replacing all the engines. If they can figure out a way to determine whether a particular engine has the problem without disassembling it, that would help a lot.

The other V35 variations apparently have crankshafts that aren’t able to rotate. The whole engine has to spin.

The carmaker says the recall applies to models “with a specific V35A engine that contains crankshaft main bearings which allow the crankshaft to rotate within the engine assembly while running.”

I want to be able to order a new Miata in a non-corporate Mazda color! Give me a solid red, yellow, mariner blue, etc... I would happily pay $1,500 to not be forced to buy white, black, beige. Mazda’s soul red metallic is fine but as the only pretty color, it’s on everything.

Never mistake rich and powerful people for smart people.

Meanwhile, for a Mitsubishi mirage

Just sold my NA miata 5 speed for 5k. 138k miles, mostly stock. LSD. Everything worked and mostly clean

Lastly, good luck smogging this if you live in California. All vehicles made after 1974 have to get smogged.

What are the good $5k enthusiasts cars? Or is $10k the new $5k? I bought a NA8 around the same time as you in 2014-15 for $3000 and sold it in 2018 for $3500. I bet that same car would easily be $5k from what I've seen on the market. 

This is how Fiat leaves the US again. An inability, or intentional decision, to look at the existing market and price accordingly. In a year, Fiat will say, “Well, we tried, but you didn’t want to buy them.” Which, is both true, and bullshit. 

“What The Hell Is Fiat Thinking”

Less.

They offer the turbo on the Outback.

It’s not that hard. I got to drive one at a local museum. It’s like driving a car with a different manual shift pattern, you quickly adapt. And they are so slow you have plenty of time to think about it. Ultimately, they are kind of like driving a lawn tractor in that you set the throttle to whatever and just mostly go…

I think it will come to if all 8 smelled, how bad it was, and if there were other passengers that also smelled but didn’t get kicked off.

Huh, so they’ve made the Soul electric now?

Maybe people are still buying them because they are informed consumers that understand that the models they are buying are not vulnerable like the older models that are being stolen. Maybe, you know, consumers decided that they should opt for the models with immobilizers.
My Ioniq 5 is not at risk of the same exploit…