People shit on friction shifting and indexing is great, but on an around town/utility bike, I like being able to blast up or down multiple gears in one move and my legs have never had a problem telling me when I’ve found the right gear. Some of this might be down to custom shifters I got the feel for, so there’s no…

Around here, it seems like people stop more for perfectly clear roundabouts than they do for damn stop signs.

I guess I can see leaving out the EG33 (basically a 6-cylinder EJ22 only on the SVX), but it seems odd to mention the EJ series and not bring up the 2.2 closed deck block (or the JDM EJ20G for that matter) from the lst gen Legacy turbos that were related to the homologation run for Group A rally (technically, those…

He only has to pay 10% to a bail bondsman to get out (this can vary by state, but FL is 10%).

Dodge Ram, Fl, sounds right.

The ‘80s Cadillacs had MPG feedback and Camaros had the upshift light. Must have been a popular thing in the industry then. My Subarus did not have either.

Focus ST did that, too. Yeah, let’s invite LSPI by driving around in 6th at 1200 rpm to save $.02 in fuel!

I love Gordon Murray’s cars and philosophy, but my first thought was the shift knob, too—aside from the GMA logo, it looks like a cast piece found in industrial equipment. From the photos, it looks like there’s more flash along the side than a bottle of off-brand cleaner, but at least a replacement could be had from…

Used mine all the time from vent to fully open and never had issues with them. Two were even aftermarket pieces with a combined mileage of about 420k miles.

My Focus ST averaged the highway rating with a combined cycle and I don’t drive Mrs Daisy. With DI, you get turbocharging with what used to be a decent NA compression ratio. Peak power is only produced at full load. Reduce load, reduce power, reduce fuel consumption. Of course, the displacement still has to be large…

As above: you’re talking about what some outlying individual will pay while I’m talking about VALUE as if the two are the same thing when they are definitely not.

You’re talking about what some outlying individual will pay while I’m talking about VALUE as if the two are the same thing when they are definitely not.

That people will pay it doesn’t mean the price makes sense. There was some young woman selling jars of her farts making—reportedly—hundreds of thousands of dollars at 4-figures/jar. Weird morons will overpay for anything, it shouldn’t be taken as an absolute assessment of value.

The difference here is that the ‘65 Mustang was nowhere near this relatively expensive at that time. If it were a hardtop, it would have been affordable to a high school kid with a part time McJob. Fastbacks or convertibles were a little outside that, but still within reach of a normal person. Shelbys were a different…

The possible reasons for it sitting doesn’t address his point that it’s a waste to have something and not use it, especially where having it sit this much does it few favors except for resale to other speculators. This isn’t one of those cars that have ascended to the level of art to justify it as a display piece.

Chances are that they’re not going to drive it, though—much of the overinflated value is in the low mileage. They could get one for cheaper with more miles on it if they wanted to drive it. It also might need some work to be a driver. It might have low miles, but it still has age and age takes its toll on components,…

Before the pandemic and even now to some extent, old 10 and 12-speed road bikes everyone likes to mock for being heavy and ancient are perfectly serviceable and repairable riders that can be had for free or around the same price as a box store POS. Sure, they’re not as “cool” as some fake suspension mountain bike or…

You’re talking kid bikes, but this problem is much more pronounced with adult bikes.

I did the same thing as a kid, but I’m no longer a kid and the point here is that this junk is not repairable. This isn’t just disposable kid bikes that get outgrown in a summer, anyway, there are a lot of bikes in adult sizes. The newer crop of trash uses plastic where even a cheap POS should be metal. There are…

Or the mfgs could just make their subscriptions free to licensed techs. Keep the security and the issue of danger to customers (which is just their propaganda BS) goes away.