So you're saying that old British cars are only reliable once you restore them properly? Isn't that exactly my point?

Maybe you make bearings???

So you're telling me that Lucas Electronics made reliable wiring harnesses, and all along the issue has been that British car owners juat don't maintain their cars diligently enough? Sorry Raph, reliability is not just a myth. Sometimes good maintenance helps a lot (like in a rotary engine) but it can't solve…

Ypsi is actually a pretty cool town. Not very run down, I mean it's adjacent to Ann Arbor. Downtown centers of each city are about 6 miles apart, and the suburbs connecting the two are at least decent, depending on the neighborhood. Stark difference from Detroit.

My moped has an individual throttle body ;)

The only thing this has in common with the McLaren F1 motor is the number of cylinders.

I thought you were going to say "these were also the request of a line worker who needed a place to set his beer cans while building the car"

Congrats to Jason Torchinsky and Neal Pollack of Yahoo! Autos for not only enduring the TDI Challenge but actually winning. Just wait until you find out how they drove 830+ miles on one tank of diesel. Story coming next week.

BMW e30 with a turbo. Swap the 325i head on to the 325e motor, use ARP studs (~$200), add tuning of your choice (<$1000 for a decent standalone setup), and bigger injectors (~$300). Buy a tired old car for $2k, get a used turbo and either build the plumbing yourself or pay someone to do it ($1k?). For about $5000 you…

There's a guy in my neighborhood who has a few in his driveway looking just that stock (although with some light rust and imperfect paint). I think he collects or flips them... I need to go introduce myself some time.

850i doesn't have anything CLOSE to the McLaren F1 engine. F1 basically had a V12 S50b30 from the e36 M3.

Oh awkward, I forgot that I typed the reply to you, the guy with the "2500HD" lol. I thought the friend I mentioned found my post and replied (I haven't seen him in a long time). His name is LD ha.

LD?!

I have a friend with a 2009ish "Turbo Hemi Ram 1500." He put a Porsche "turbo" badge on it. I allowed it, because he was just trolling for lulz.

This doesn't really have anything to do with anything, but my e30 is such a lowly model that it didn't even get a "325e" badge. Just "325". 120hp stock.

OF COURSE NOT! She was looking across the street at some dog that was inexplicably wearing pants. She wouldn't notice if the guy in front of her was driving an A4, or an S4, or an RS4, or if he was driving an F-14 Tomcat down the street and occasionally firing cruise missiles at bus shelters. Meanwhile, I'm sitting…

You're arguing about something i never said."I think you mean almost 100% more than 36mpg" when I said "50% more than 43." I don't understand why you made the post in the first place.

No, first of all, please read my post. I said EPA "highway" not "combined." Secondly, it's not 100% more, it's not almost 100% more, it's 75% more. That's 50% more than 50%, or 25% less than 100%. 43*150% is 64.5, which is much closer to 63.18 than 72.

Hey hasn't been making this joke in months it makes me so sad :(

834 miles divided by 13.2 gallons. It's approximately 50% more than the EPA highway label.