ND ... I don’t mind some of Alfa Romeo’s cars. They’ve produced some very nice looking, and driving, specimens.

Nopity Nope Nope.

The 90s Villager / Nissan Quest got a lot of things quite right (and based on the number of them I saw rolling around for years after production ended, they were damn near bulletproof).

Minivans that didn’t have roll-down windows in the doors had hinged windows at the rear. That, combined with either AC or the front door windows rolled down provides for decent airflow through the vehicle (and prevents wasps from getting trapped inside at highway speeds ...)

No Dice. Not at $3K.

If you’re confident enough in your ability to weld stuff together, then swapping that frame member out shouldn’t be too bad.

Or did they find an over-worked inspector trying to do far more than is reasonable for one person to do?

Yup - it’s not pretty all ways around.  My position is that cyber security needs a national response in much the same way that defence is a national issue. 

A couple of thoughts occur to me on this:

$7K? Nope. Nopity Nope.

At a wild guess, I suspect that the amount of OH gas that would be produced by that process on the scale you can fit under the hood of a car isn’t much more than the methane an average drunken frat boy’s farts produce. In other words, not enough to make a difference on an ICE vehicle running at several thousand…

Even with air gaps between systems (aka DMZs), there are interconnects between SCADA and Corporate that are potentially vulnerable. Since metering data from SCADA is needed to drive billing, it’s axiomatic that there are connections between the two.

NP, not a car for me though.

Yes, they have a significant reserve capacity in the pipeline and storage tanks ... there’s one small problem:

There’s still a handful of these around where I live.  They get dragged out once winter blows in.  I presume they’re owned mostly by people living on acreages / small farms near to the city I live in. 

That’s because they didn’t sell well. Nice enough car, but it sat in a weird segment between a Nissan Pulsar and a Toyota MR2 ... and not in a good way. 

Tons of Delicas out in the Fraser Valley; other than that, most of those vehicles were never imported to Canada at all under the Mitsubishi name.  A few made it across the border, but not many. 

Saw a handful of these where I live. They weren’t overly common, but because they looked a lot like the Toyota and Mazda vehicles they competed with, it was easy to look right past one. 

That was a rebadged Nissan, I think. 

The G-platform - especially those sold from 84-86 with the dual rectangular headlight arrangement in the front.