It’s like they say about hitting your kids to correct them. They don’t remember the lesson; they only remember the beating.

If you could find Nissan sales stats between American and Germany then I think you’d have your answer.

I have to constantly remind myself to be a good ambassador as a motorcyclist. You have to keep in mind that when you’re on a bike, it’s not necessarily self-righteousness that drives you to be more aggressive against perceived dangers on the road; it’s preservation. Things that in a car would result in a tiny scrape…

This really needs to be at the top so we stop getting these simplistic “he shouldn’t have run in front of the truck” responses, as if the truck changing direction toward the guy after he took off running is somehow outside the realm of possibility.

Didn’t know Nissan was in NASCAR this year.

I predicted a “the 911 is more powerful” response by comparing hp/liter, in advance, so that engine stress would be already a moot point, but you saw that and said “OOO the 911 has more hp so this isn’t even the same ballpark” like that was a point anyway. Good God man. S2000s, which have a higher naturally aspirated…

“Zhose are speedholes. Zhey make zhe car go faster.”

And meanwhile the guys with the stickshift CL-S cars from that era have bulletproof-reliable 260hp sport coupes (that are just ruined and unbuyable being FWD, but whatever).

Yeah that’s the thing. You never see somebody with a 250,000 mile Porsche (aside from a 944) to really hammer home the idea of true reliability and Porsche being synonymous. They’re fucking garage queens, then maybe they get wrecked. Either way, they don’t pack on enough miles for real world reliability comparisons to…

I always find it absurd when somebody says they haven’t had any problems on a car that has five digit mileage. Yeah, no shit, this isn’t the 1940s. We live in an era when a company like Honda churns out cars putting out 100hp per liter that will go 200,000 miles before they even need a seal replacement. That a…

This was a fantastic comment. What does the 2.7 head on the 3.0 do to make things better?

Probably the best sounding 4-cylinder engine ever made — well, aside from that Fiat 28.5 liter Beast of Turin, which is just erotic death explosions.

With the 928, to avoid the nightmare of repairing the drivetrain or the shame of it being slower than a V6 Caravan, you could always do what everybody I see around here does with their old sports cars: drive them slowly once every week or so as the car slowly dies from atrophy.

Well truth be told, if anything went wrong on any Corolla at 60K miles, that would be an outlier. This isn’t a 1970s Fiat you’re talking about; For a Corolla, that’s break-in miles. Make it to 180,000 before anything goes wrong and then it starts getting into average territory for that car. Above that, then it becomes…

“Hahahahahahahah, your an idiot.”

Bizarre capitalization emphasis aside, you’re right; 944s are amazing. Change the timing belt on time and they’ll run forever, nevermind that they’re dynamically just awesome cars, handling-wise.

Hey at least it’s not Gabrielle Bluestone, who in an article about lightning spelled it “lightening.”

Wow that really was a good read. The wikipedia article on the guy is probably the most gripping thing I’ve read since their account of the Texas City disaster.

You’re not sorry. You’re just telling someone you’re right and they’re wrong.

Well damn that’s a good anecdote.