I did some googlin, couldn't find anything conclusive, so decided to just trust my memory haha. I'm no Merc expert, that's for sure. 190e-2.3 definitely used mechanical injection though!

There's a reason it was in quotes :)

MR2 is awesome until you have to work on it I think. But it's a Toyota so maybe you won't need to.

MR2 vs Fox Mustang: Mustang. More plentiful, roomier, maybe less reliable but easier to work on and easier to find parts.

It's like the Koenigsegg one:1, but better, because it's seventyfour:74!!!

There are much cheaper e30 wagons out there, already legal. With the money and time you save by not having to make the diesel legal, you can get a cheap M20 wagon and boost the snot out of it and have much more fun.

Didn't have to read anything. That's e34 M5 money. And a good one, at that. CP.

Thanks, my bad!

At what speed? Most of the cars I've driven without failed power steering are significantly tougher to turn, but not unmanageable. Fortunately I have some mechanical knowledge so I understand what's happening at the time, but I can imagine how surprising it would be for someone who knew nothing about cars.

Please go back and read the comments linked in my post. There was no assumption anywhere, other than assuming the car's potential lateral and longitudinal acceleration. Those posts only showed that it was possible for them to have been going 80-100mph at the time they lost control, but I never claimed that they indeed…

Ah, I was misled. My bad!

[Altman] was responding to questions by an attorney representing the family of Brooke Melton, a Georgia woman killed in a crash of her Cobalt that suffered ignition failure while driving at about 55 miles an hour. "We've sold vehicles for many, many years without power assist and the car was maneuverable and…

Their investigation result was "81-94mph" which is not a very precise guess. They surely figured it out to such a level of precision within a week of the accident. Any further investigation would have just narrowed that range down. There are still no clear answers about what happened - they had several methods of…

Only the headline says speed; the article itself clearly states that unsafe driving was the cause.

After reading the actual article, I don't know why it took them over 3 months to "release the information" that was almost exactly what I posted at the time...

In this case, being able to say "I told you so" does not make me feel good:

Option 3.

The guy who took that picture is Robert Boomer, and he has a sweet B5 S4!

First, seat belts are possibly the least sexy kind of belt, and I'm including alternator belt in that list. And second, they're nothing like BDSM restraints — they don't actually hold you tightly in any position. If you want to, say, lean forward slowly, you can easily do that. They're not people containment…

As it should. I think the early 318i's (M42 engine) are the strongest reason. Indestructible motor (forged internals) despite the crappy sensors (like the stupid flappy-door air flow meter with a sweeping arm potentiometer that wears out, but easily replaced with a salvage yard part). I bought one for $600 a few years…