Another student and I did this with a Mini Cooper at Virginia Tech. We used an Arduino to decode the CAN-bus messages and played racing games and driving simulators with it. I ran a SNES emulator on the projector and played Mario Kart and Star Fox

As a former technician at a Nissan dealership, I will say the first gen Xterra’s are actually great vehicles and were pretty reliable. Reliability went out the window when they introduced the 4.0 liter engine

I live in VA and have seen this car driving around! I remember the license plate

I have a 99 BMW 323i. Bought it for $3k with 207k miles. Nearly 4 years later, it has 240k miles. I stopped replacing the window regulator because they break every few months. I’ve recently found a crack in the body where it meets the rear subframe (common problem). Other than that it’s been pretty reliable, engine…

We had a 97 Avalon in the family that we sold with 420,000 miles. Still ran well when we sold it. We still see it driving around every once in a while. The only thing we ever did to that car was regularly replace the oil, brakes, and tires

Ha ha yes! The first thing I thought when I saw this article was how they had the “fuel injection” badges

Back when I worked as a mechanic at a Nissan dealership, I had an Infiniti G35 come in with a sticker that said “Speak English or go back to the shit hole you came from” placed directly next to his “I love my golden retriever” sticker