Or just buy something that isn’t a Subaru.

In Finland Moskvitch had a reputation for being a dangerous car. With 75 hp engine and the car weighing a bit over 1000 kg, it had a quite good power to weight ratio. But its handling wasn’t comparable to western cars so accidents with these were common.

They had 3, 4 and 6 cylinder variations of the engine family in production but the customers wanted more power and displacement. Their cylinder spacing was fixed (due a certain very expensive machining process) so they couldn’t increase the displacement. Adding the boost would cause exhaust emission and wearing issues.…

These are not used in on-road vehicle but they are used in many off-road vehicle. It’s an inline 7 diesel made in Finland by AGCO Power. For example they can be found from very large agricultural tractors and harvesters. They have a displacement of 9.8 liters, produce up to 365 kW of power and weigh around 790 kg. The…

Rust thinks that these taste yummy when served with some salt. Especially the body.

The price is nice but I wouldn’t like to buy one in red color or with that type of transmission.

I didn’t get the point of the XT steering wheel design until I saw the RHD version. Subaru guys were a bit lazy and didn’t mirror the steering wheel for the LHD versions.

I’m pretty sure that the strange one is a factory prototype. It doesn’t even have holes for a rear license plate so it has likely never seen daily driving. And I think the rear engine lid has been replaced completely with an indoor engine cover. The sheetmetal piece below the rear window appears to be single piece…

“This is why I bought my 1965 Plymouth Valiant. I want a winter car to replace my Lexus LX470, which is a swell car, but worth too much for me to let rust out on Michigan’s salty roads, and a bit boring and thirsty, with its four-speed slushbox and ridiculous curb weight.”

I have seen many Kapitäns but I didn’t know that there was a (huge) sunroof option for these. Nice spotting! Here’s another view of the sunroof.

I think Gunpla uses mostly polystyrene (all exterior parts) and ABS (inner frames in fancier models) as their plastic. The flexible “polycaps” are made out of polyethylene. These are the same materials that most other model kits use too. Some RC cars use these too but they to have more variety with their plastic…

There was another drawback with the pickup conversion. A pickup will have a speed limit of 80 km/h (the maximum speeds in our regular roads can be 100 km/h and on the motorways 120 km/h). And the limit had to be shown with embarrassing yellow sticker in the back. This example Volvo had been “van converted” and it…

I once visited my friend who lived in Zaragoza (Spain) for couple of years. In there the parking space was limited and that kind parking was their normal situation. They did use a lot of time to fit their cars in tiny gaps. If the gap was longer than the car itself, parking was possible. They tried to be careful not…

annoyingEngineerdid did notice that it has wrong color for an S52 in its valve cover. The valve covers are likely interchangeable but it does seem to have an inlet manifold that wasn’t used with S52s (the original engine did have such though). So maybe the whole engine is a “parts bag special”?

I think light bars are OK if they are somewhat integrated in a functional roof rack. In this case the roof doesn’t appear to be very functional but it could made to be such.

“Based on a peak under the hood, that’s still an S50 mill, and it should put out the same 240 horsepower.”

Citroën C6 2006-2012 also had such rear window.

“Cosplayers are not idols.”

“... To prove it, Aston Martin is targeting a three minute, 20 second lap time around the Le Mans circuit. Forget the Hypercar class, that’s right behind the fastest LMP1 cars.

We actually have an official importer for Ram trucks in Finland. Even the TRX model would be available. Our fuel costs ~3 times as much as it does in the US so these aren’t selling in big numbers. They are registered as “heavy vehicles” so they carry fairly low import taxes in their prices.