GM power steering makes me cringe every time. I recently bought a set of reservoir caps that have provisions for a vacuum pump, made everything soooo much easier.

Not the fastest or prettiest car, but I believe there will always be a market for these due to Panoz’s provenance. 32k would be impossible for me to swallow, but this is the absolutely perfect midlife crisis, if you are into explaining what it is at every gas station and every C&C meet...

Possible unpopular opinion:

I don’t get it, we had timing chains for like 80 years, then the manufacturers decided a belt was better, then they decided the chain was better again, and completely forgot how they work. It’s rediculous how many cars stretch chains and ruin guides nowadays. It seems like that’s all I do anymore. I have 2 cars in my…

TBH, its like 20 bolts more to just drop the cradle and do it on the ground, I make time on it, never tried between the rails. I’ve done the Caddys in car, but they face the right way.

To be fair, the GMC Acadia, Chevy Traverse, Saturn Outlook, and Buick Enclave (maybe more) use a similarly satanic arrangement on their chains. Thankfully, the trans doesn’t have to come off, but step one of the process is remove engine. Don’t get me wrong, this car gets no love from me, but Chevy did it too.

If it was a V6 5sp, sold. Those are fun. There’s a little too much hackery in this one.

My unmodified (and broken) Sportster would like a word with you...

All of Ford’s “drop in ready” crate engines are REALLY expensive.

If it’s direct injected, 16:1 isn’t impossible. Add in the possibility of E85 and 16:1 shouldn’t be an issue at all.

Ford was offering Ecoboost crate engines, I think that would be a riot.

This would have came over with the reliability and parts cost of the friggen 3000GT VR4. No thanks!

Love these cars, and at that price, sure. The BMW running gear would likely go, making room for a more modern powerplant though.

I own a shop...

I shouldn’t have to buy a tool to keep a bloodthirsty tire in it’s place while I empty my hands, every non German manufacturer supplies the tool with the car (also known as lug studs!) and I don’t do it 2-3 times a year, I do it 2-3 times a week!

Just looking at that makes my blood boil. “Hey, can you rotate my tires while you have it on the lift?” “Only if you stand there and catch the fucking tire as it tries to jump off the car and murder me while my hands are full of lug BOLTS and an impact gun...” GRRRRRRRR

If we are talking BMW brakes and hubs, we are talking BMW lug BOLTS. CP at any price (coming from a lifelong Supra fanboi and previous owner.) No amount of performance or luxury is worth the fuckery that is lug bolts in general. 

I do it at my shop. It takes 2 seconds to copy the vin from my management program into the NHTSA Recalls by Vin page. I don’t understand why it’s so hard for shops to actually try to help their customers...

I just snorted tea out of my nose onto my keyboard.

NOOOOO Not even close, but knowing Toyota, all of their performance models have ALWAYS been a bit overpriced as compared to others in the segment in America at least.