“S&P Global cut Nissan’s credit rating to junk in March of last year.”

The Subaru Tribeca. I’m not even sure what they were trying to do with it as they had several models that were better at doing whatever it was trying to do. I’m kind of surprised it even lived long enough to have a facelift done as the first gen was hideous and should’ve been shelved before production.

I would imagine most CEO’s of car companies are terrible people as well-however they don’t own one of the largest online communication companies or blab about offensive social commentary on everything.

There were plenty of Hyundai’s that blew up to oil starvation too:

One of the earlier “fixes” to the whole oil starvation causing the engine to fail issue with Hyundai’s was to update the software for the knock sensor to make it more sensitive. Essentially the car could preserve the engine by immediately putting the car into limp mode when the engine would inevitably start to fail.…

I would imagine that has to do with what the final drive ratio is on the manual car.

“New cars suck. I told you: I’m old.”

I’ve found the mechanical stuff is relatively stout on modern cars the main pain points are the series of various modules all over the car that fail and need to be reprogrammed using manufacturer specific scan tools.

Do they drive it? I saw Lincoln LS’s with the 3.9 V8 come in almost daily for ignition coils.

Thunderbird-”They’re super reliable”

I haven’t actually, but the fact you have means someone bought one instead of a different more accommodating car from another manufacturer.  To Ford a sale is a sale and the only thing that will change their mind is to buy something from someone else.

I would love to do a V6 turbo swap in a TR7.  That car would fly.

Dunno, the Bronco Sport and the Escape kind of sit in that space and the Escape already is on the same platform as the Mav with a hybrid AWD set up.  It wouldn’t make sense for Ford to cannibalize their sales on crossovers by introducing a van.

Ford could probably convert the e-transit to a passenger van and it would be what you are looking for.  They already make the gas version in passenger form.

Right you are, I need to brush up on my Bonnie Tyler lyrics.  It’s a heartache.

Wouldn’t the title track be Kenny Loggin’s “Footloose”?  You want to talk about soundtracks that dude dominated soundtracks- Caddyshack, Top Gun, Over the Top, One Fine Day, etc.

Bonnie Tyler’s work as a whole is amazing. Fun fact “holding out for a hero” was originally written for Footloose (1984) after Paramount asked her to write a song for the movie. It was later used it in Short Circuit 2 (1988).

So the title is “Where have all the good vans gone” which I assume is a reference to Paula Cole’s “Where have all the cowboys gone”. Yet the subtitle is “I need a streetwise Hercules to fight the rising odds” which is from Bonnie Tyler’s “Holding out for a Hero”.   What is going on here?

It is very different than reselling car parts as a battery pack is a giant fire hazard that needs to be tested pretty stringently and needs a full cooling management system to operate safely.

My favorite (maintenance aside) was the ‘03 VW GTI VR6. It had the 24V Vr6 with 200hp (up from the 12V with 174hp) a 6 speed manual and all the low end torque all the time. It didn’t have the tuning potential of the 1.8t but it had plenty of power from the factory and if you wanted more get an R32. Great commuter, fun…