I, too, concur: had an ‘83 Cutlass Ciera with a well-maintained Iron Duke; it rattled like a coffee can full of pennies and provided a steady flow of oil to the the air filter...

Methinks some of you are too young to remember truly horrible sounding engines:

The 308's tune was pretty mild especially in the US, but the same could be said of most 70's and early 80's cars. They also share the same architecture with all the later Ferrari V8's up to the 360 which gives them a lot of tuning potential and they were pretty overbuilt too. There are several companies that have…

Lolz, those engines don’t last stock, forget turbocharging them.

The stock motor is the worst part of a 308. I’m 100% fine with this. Unless it’s a 12 cylinder manual from the 70s or earlier, a 288 or F40, hack the fuck away.

We just traded our 2021 Macan S for a new Taycan and made a little profit after driving around for a year because of the chip shortage. Even though we only had it a year, the Macan was dollar for dollar one of the most pleasant cars I’ve ever had. Fast, comfortable, luxurious with the right options. That said, it…

You do know the Boxster/Cayman use a flat 4, correct?

In an odd way, it’s almost fitting. We’ll now have 3 distinct eras of VW, the Air-cooled era, water cooled era and the upcoming EV era. The Type 1 was the constant from the beginning to the end of the air cooled era, the Golf, which replaced the type 1, ran the full duration of the water cooled era.

Your mistake is assuming RS has anything to do with performance. It’s a trim line Honda has been using in Japan for decades, going back to the original Civic, and it stands for Road Sailing. It’s typically just an appearance package, though sometimes also includes a power bump. If you're expecting something akin to a…

Doesn’t ‘89 only exclude the VE equipped 190 HP version of the SE? I thought’ 89's only had the VG with significantly less power.

The 95-99 cars were no slouches with a stick either, they weighed a good bit less than the 00+ cars, and 0-60 in 6.6(?) back in 1995 was insane for a mainstream family sedan.

The 4DSC SE with a proper 5-speed manual, LSD, and white faced gauges.

Yeah how the author could hone in on that sorry lump as his favorite is... worrying.

Original Maxima? 2000's? I mean, They’ve been at the Maxima since before I was born, and back when Datsun was still a thing, but they really got proper 4DSC cred in the early 90's, when they put Taurus SHO performance in something that looks like Henchman 24's Stanza.

The bill allocates $2 billion to incentivize semiconductor production specifically for the parts industry and automakers, who need it the most, especially for Michigan, home to GM, Ford and Stellantis, and a network of OEMs that provide parts to those automakers.

“are struggling with production backlogs, delays and component shortages.”

As much as we like to put the Hammer and the Red Pig on a pedestal, AMG had to do a bit of bill paying work back in the day.

So, basically almost all urban legends about cars are Chrysler ALMOST making something good or the Fiero ALMOST being good.

Just to be that guy, it’s not the most expensive in inflation adjusted dollars - one example as per Motorweek, the R129 300SL cost $72,500 in 1990, which comes out to over $160k today (for something that was barely quicker than a contemporary Miata that cost a quarter as much).

The Jaguar F Type might be ancient in car terms but it’s a bargain compared with this.  An AWD P450 has a starting MSRP of $87,000.