2nd / toy car.  It doesn’t get parked on the street

Taillights aren’t tinted.  They still light up at night, remember?  Doesn’t get parked on the street, anyways.

I blacked out the rear reflectors, the reverse light part of the taillights, and did tinted side markers. Why? Because it’s my car and I prefer the way it looks.

Xterra all the way

2nd gen Xterra prices have been creeping up, but nowhere near Toyota tax levels yet.

Don’t think you can get the manual with the ‘Squatch package.

Very cool!  I work with industrial hydraulics / pneumatics.. not quite as exciting as this application.

That’s... really bad.  For desert running I guess it doesn’t matter much, but there’s gonna be some sad folks who take ‘em on the rocks and munch the expensive shocks.

They need to split the middle and just put the LT1 in a Colorado ZR2.  

Do yourself a favor and drive a Camaro SS 1LE.  It’ll stomp all over a CTR.

We were passed by an older sedan (can’t even remember the kind, definitely not a ‘sporty’ one, though) with a family and their dog.  Dude was giving it the beans.

It seriously does.  After 8 years of living in my house I can’t figure out where at least half of the crap that’s taking up space actually came from.

That front skid plate looks like it took quite a beating and is still pretty straight. Good sign for a factory setup, usually the skid plates aren’t much better than sheet metal.

One of the largest power units I work on regularly has a pair of 300hp electric motors, they make a pretty decent whine while starting up.  Haven’t had the chance to be around too many of the 1000+ hp electric units.

I would assume because of older engine - newer car. Usually the newer engine - older car swaps work as long as the new emissions equipment is kept. But an older engine in a new car wouldn’t necessarily meet the emissions standards that were around when the car was built.

Yeah, those turbos spinning away under the hood are a little worrying, especially if you’re planning on crawling all day at <10mph.  I like NA engines for that stuff.  Hopefully the cooling system is up to snuff.  The temp gauge doesn’t budge during a full day of crawling in my Xterra.

I still help out very part time at a bike shop up here in MN that I’ve worked at for almost 20 years. I’ve never seen anything like this year. Absolutely nuts. Anything in the $900-$1500 price point is gone. Most shops in the area have done a full years worth of business in the last couple months.

I went the opposite way - Import offroader and domestic road.

2018 Camaro SS.  At least they did something with all that extra horsepower

I’ve never noticed issues with a slow charge time using AA with my S9+. Seems to charge at the standard rate, even running maps and streaming spotify.