Good insight. My introduction to modern watercooled Volkswagens was with the Fox that Volkswagen donated to the technical school I attended in the late 80's. Later when I was a Volkswagen club, one of my fellow members had a Fox, as well as the molds for a rally body kit that either VW offered or someone made for the…

Berkeley!

Ah yes, the BMW 700. I’d nearly forgotten about those. ;)

Yep, I recently joked that the Germans didn’t foresee the “poseur” angle the US market would demand from these cars, so they actually made them pretty capable. Not a bad combo, this could be the ultimate apocalypse vehicle for all situations.

I wouldn’t say the Vela incident is widely disbelieved. Plenty of analysts think it was some sort of nuclear explosion, likely with the South Africans and Israelis. France is a possibility. It’s far from settled.

Ok I can chime in here.

Aero Trollblazers are a bit pricey. I’ve been looking and haven’t found one I’d even waste my time to go look at under $10k.

Your irrationality is what keeps prices on cars like this low. We appreciate it.

The T7 sludge recall mod is visible from the top of the engine.

But you gotta admit, a supposedly 500 horsepower inline 6 (the highest tune) from Jaguar does make you wonder how good it will be in the XE, and if they are planning an M3 competitor. Their return to making inline 6s, whatever the reasons maybe, should be seen as a positive, and to see how these stack up to the S55,…

I mean, what’s in it for the manufacturer though? You’re talking about adding, what, $600-1000 per engine / car, for something that 10% of people intend to use? It doesn’t make a ton of sense. That the LS and 2JZ had robust bottom ends was a foreseeable consequence of good, resilient engineering, but I don’t think…

A car magazine did a comparison of both the 3.5TT and 5.0. (It was either Car & Driver or Motortrend.)

Their conclusion was that the Ecoboost got better fuel economy unloaded, and the Coyote got better fuel economy while towing/hauling. So, if your truck was going to be used primarily as a truck, get the V8. If,…

The problem with tdi’s is the problem that all diesels have. They aren’t actually cleaner. They are only cleaner with regards to carbon monoxide but NOX and particulates are much worse by fundamental design. Every company’s diesels are bad. There’s a nice BBC article showing that of popular diesel models in Europe…

That one baffles me, too. If you look at the direct competition, you’ve got Toyota and Honda with highly evolved 3.5l V6s that run circles around the VW 3.6 in terms of efficiency. And you’ve got Mazda on the zoom-zoom front with a turbo 4 that’s a little bigger than the 2l in the Atlas (and reportedly does a nice…

Chill man, you’re correct. The people that are defending the STI aren’t following the rules of the conversation. Engine to engine, the FA20F is a superior engine than the EJ257. Yes, it makes 45ish less HP, but the EJ257 is a dinosaur and it has all of the faults of a dinosaur. All this shit about trick diffs and…

Doesnt mean it’s competing with a GTI. A Subaru outback is the closest thing they have to a Chevy Silverado. They are not competing.

Toyota Avalon Limited in Mint Green, rear trunk spoiler with a tan Landau top, it’s a set of gold badges away from from being the most old man vehicle ever, which is I believe the trim code for this edition

“Are you sure you’d like to start the engine? (Y/N)”

The whole point of the original 240z was to offer a reasonably good performance car for not much money. It was slower in a straight line than the contemporary muscle cars, but of course it also weighed much less. The 240Z also offered most of the performance of something like an E-type while costing significantly…