The 3.5L is actually a decent engine (The 2.7L was the total turd known for early failure), but it is an interference engine with a timing belt which is just about due for replacement (100k mi interval on these), and the timing belt on these is difficult/expensive to service, so tack another $1,000-$1,500 onto the…

-ND

There are plenty of non-corrosive ice-melt/traction aid options, but salt is “cheap” (at least upfront, but the long term costs due to infrastructure damage are never taken into account, not only is is rotting out cars, it is also rotting out bridge beams, re-bar embedded in the roadway, etc.) so they stick with it.

^This, while I understand the “historical significance” of the old Packard plant, at the end of the day it is an “abandoned” building (or series of connected buildings really) that have been sitting largely empty, with much of it exposed to weather and little to no maintenance for over 60 years. Much of the plant is…

Gutless V6 in a giant boat = automatic No Dice (and the Ford 3.8 has reliability issues as well).

-ND

“I can see it preventing wrecks with the less attentive though”

Leave it to “Comifornia” in almost any other state if you aren’t driving a vehicle you just don’t register it and then when you (or whoever you sell it to) register it again you are only hit with the cost of a new registration, but not in California they want to charge you back registration and late fees for the time…

“What happens if you just, you know, don’t?”

Why should anyone even care about climate change? Even the most pessimistic models put most of the major effects far enough in the future most of us will be dead or rotting away in an old folks home (this includes Millennials and Gen-Z barring any breakthrough medical advances drastically extending the average human…

It’s only illegal if you get caught. As long as your local PD aren’t complete NAZIs they probably have better things to do than be the “registration police” (though of course most will still add that to your citation if you get pulled over for something else).

Yes, but you might die of dysentery a week later.

unless you live where they salt the roads, then the frames turn into Swiss-cheese (if you’re lucky enough to have one of the recalled years Toyota may pay to replace your frame or buy the truck back from you though).

-CP

Does it come with an Italian mechanic named Toni, so he can fix it again, and again, and again.......?

And you think the democrats are any better??? They’re two sides of the same coin, neither can be trusted worth anything, and all are bought and paid for by special interests. We’re not far from the old Soviet “sham” elections where you were given an illusion of “choice” but all candidates were loyal to the communist…

Kill it, kill it with fire!!!

Wait, someone willingly swapped a 2.7T into a car?? Why the hell would anyone put that turd of an engine an a vehicle that wasn’t already afflicted with it???

An old Range Rover, the reliability nightmare that keeps on giving. $7,500 to buy, $75,000 to keep it running for the next 5 years.