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I’m shocked to hear that but I haven’t seen a single detail in the pictures you’ve shared that looks anything like the claimed mileage.

A compression test gives some useful info and is (reasonably) practical to do on a non-running car.

I expect the “low mileage” is because the odometer is not working. All it takes is resetting while the car is in motion.

A buddy of my had an R5 Turbo 2 for a number of years. It was a little built, a claimed 230hp IIRC requiring 50/50 race gas/premium. One evening we swapped cars - my old Lotus Esprit S4s to his Renault. It was all that was bad about 80s turbo charging in a single, giggling package. I couldn’t stop laughing.

There’s a local guy who has a 1948 tracked bucket loader (weird, right? He’s also an expert Vincent restorer) that can run on gas OR diesel. When it’s cold out, it can be started on gasoline to warm up, then switched over to diesel. Each combustion chamber has a valve that opens, exposing another chamber to lower the…

Lower unsprung weight is the appeal of inboard brakes. They are a bitch to package and service though.

I should have read all the comments. Just posted the same.

In 1968, Car and Driver published a review of the Open Kadett (shown in a junkyard!) so scathing that GM canclled advertising in ALL the Ziff-Davis magazines.

Hey! I worked at one of them in high school. LOL

I have an ‘04 in the same color combo and I love it. The miles kill the value on this one though it should have plenty left in it. No picture of the front spoiler suggests it’s beat to hell but you can buy a new OEM painted front bumper cover for $700.

How can you NOT, right?

Hah. Randomly looking at the window at the supermarket, I see a big kid go whizzing past the cars, standing up on the back of the cart, his mom following behind with the will-he-EVER-grow-up gait. Then I recognize the mom and realize it’s her husband, who’s 5 years older than me. I’m 45. :)

The intake is surely different too. Packaging in a Corvette is tighter, demanding more compromises than the Camaro.

Calling the inability to meet the emissions requirements under the imposed constraints an engineering “failure” is a bit of a stretch in my opinion. If no other manufacturer is able to do it either, perhaps it’s just not possible to meet the requirement.

My understanding is that a bearing starts to fail, making racket. They swap the drivetrain because they can do so very quickly, and repair the old one to use in the next car that comes in.

Something electric. There’s a CPO Model S in New York for $58k right now. Alternately, an e-golf is dirt cheap once you pile up the incentives.

Seems to have rebounded a bit off the lows. There’s an actual dealer in Cherry Hill.

They might eventually but I’m not seeing it yet.

2. Interest. I cannot stress this point enough: This car has to be something that you’re interested in hearing about for a while.