Yeah, so if the part was better designed serviceability wouldn’t be an issue. Sure it’s known to fail and that sucks, but if they beefed it up along with the starter motor and they both lasted 400k then I’m sure some other dumb random part would be breaking at 300k.

It’s always a trade off. They could have put the starter motor somewhere else, but it may have been also just as inaccessible, or they would have had to change the geometry of the engine bay, or move something else to an inaccessible location. Sticking something in the V is fine as long as it’s over designed and lasts…

+1 for the Carrera GT, its so fascinating to me. The sound the look. From someone who very much is not a Porsche fan I LOVE the Carrera GT.

You also want the punchline at the bottom. So it should be like:

The problem with fixing infrastructure is that it isn’t sexy, and it generally doesn’t win votes. There’s no ribbon cutting ceremony for resurfacing a road, or fixing a bridge. Everyone just expects good roads, but unlike other things that the government pays for there’s no real employees to get mad about it not…

As a Canadian I’m always on the fence about buying a VW, I love the way their cars look, feel, drive and they way they’re equipped, but they’re just a little bit too much money, and a little bit too worrisome with their reliability.

Things can be good in many different ways. Is a purpose built 2 seat Miata better than a practical and comfortable CRV? Sure they’re different categories, but even in the same category, Forester XT? CRV? CX5? They’re all great in their own ways. But things that we consider bad are bad on every level.

Assuming I couldn’t just sell the car, but it was given to me, I would pick the 86 easily. Its cheap to run more humble and purpose built.

I agree, the Twins are too middle ground for me. I’d rather have my commuter Miata which never needs to be practical, or a mustang which is far more comfortable and usable for other things.

My wife has a 2011 Yaris from before we met. It is dreadfully boring, uncomfortable, buzzy, poorly equipped, bad in the snow, and she blew all the speakers. Luckily we’re getting rid of it this year where she’ll take my Outback and I will be getting a NC Miata.

It will sell for sure, Honda reliability goes a long way for buyers, even if they want a 300+hp rocket. I know a bunch of people who wouldn’t get the RS/Golf R because they don’t like Ford/VW. I think the stiffest competition will be from the STI though, as they both cater to the boy-racer sterotype.

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Yes, making things a little thicker would increase the fatigue resistance considerably, but making things slightly larger increases volume significantly (see the Square-cube law). This added weight and over engineering would impact fuel economy making the car more costly to own over time (which is a big deal for a…

Sounds like everything I want in a Volvo.

As a Canadian, 2 motorcycles is crazy! But a snowmobile? That’s what I need.

Clearly the next steps would be: More Miatas.

Here’s my dream list:

So I guess the solution is to never try and make things better. If everyone drove electric, more power generation would be needed to handle the charging. A responsible government would build clean power stations to handle the extra demand.

Economies of scale and government funded R&D. Companies don’t want to make EVs because there is no demand, so they don’t tool the factories for it. Sourcing quality cheap batteries in enough quantity was an issue until the Giga-factory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigafactory_1). Governments buying all these EVs on…

Spark Negotiators are real though! It’s a power regulation feedback system that ensures that your spark plugs always go on strike with British Leyland.