Those Rolls-Royce interiors tend to hold up pretty well, since under the leather they are mostly wood and metal. No fiberboard door cards here.

The damage doesn’t look as bad from out here.

The Iron Duke is a cockroach of an engine, and that means it isn’t close to the worst. So many “good” engines people love are absurdly fragile. So it doesn’t make power. Power isn’t everything.

And the Lima is a fantastic engine. Properly built (and for less than you might think), they are little monsters. Sure, they…

Pretty sure it’s way more than the third time.

It’s honestly shocking that this defect was not identified in pre-production vehicle testing...

I don’t hate it, but like all new cars it’s going to cost too damned much. $50k base price? Nope.

As much as I love Turbo Rs, I can’t say that seeing one in a museum would excite me much. I have driven Sinatra’s Turbo R (along with many others), and they are lovely cars. But museum-worthy? Meh.

As much as I loved and miss my Saab 9-5 (shown here in its natural environment), the correct answer is the 1964-1967 Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser.

I look at old Defenders all day long, every day. And we’re going to have an open house next month! Come visit us:

Price and range. I drive a 15-year-old Honda Pilot that just hit 100k miles. It’s paid for, it gets terrible fuel economy, and I hate it. I fully expect to drive it for another decade and another 100k miles, because I won’t spend the money to replace a vehicle that continues to do what I need it to do. And there are…

Does South Carolina need another vehicle company named “Scout”? I live near the Scout factory, and we have partnered with them on some marketing, so I wonder about confusion over the name.

I build 430-horsepower LS3 Defender 110s and 90s at work. The 90s can be a handful. We’re currently prototyping an LT4 (640 hp) 110. And we have had customer inquiries about an LT4 90. I don’t want to test drive that one.

Still not as terrifying as a pre-war Grand Prix car.

I expect they will supply the cases blank. Seems easiest; just stamp or engrave it somewhere inside the casting, and let the end user match it to the car.

Honestly, a lot of them never change their registration. I see years-expired out-of-state tags all the time.

Fun fact: I used to work at an independent Jaguar shop. You can get the pan on and off without removing the transmission. Once we figured out how, we stopped charging full boat for the job. Bet your mechanic knew how as well, still charged full price, *and* left the oil out.

Buy cheaper oil. If it’s spending that little time in the crankcase, the engine won’t care if it’s Mobil 1 or STP.

I would daily this.

What did you do with the old AT-3 handlebars? I love old-school Scott bars. I’m still running an AT-4 on my 1990 Trek 930 Singletrack.

On both the G-wagen and the Jeep:

I work for a company that builds premium Land Rover Defenders. If the customer selects the LS3 upgrade option, it’s pretty much guaranteed to run over a quarter million bucks. So those prices don’t seem absurd for what they are.

I daily drove a ‘78 from mid-1992 to around 1997 or so. Back then, it was just another old car. Funny thing was, I always wanted a TR7 or TR8 while I owned it. Replaced it with a 1986 Mazda 626GT 5-door.