As a former 2x S30 owner and GR86 owner, I both agree and disagree. I agree with your assessments, but I think the similarity is in the spirit. Back in the Zs day, average fleet braking and handling were much worse than today, so the Z wasn’t as deficient then as it feels today (or felt even 25 years ago when I had…

I’ve been saying this since I bought my GR86. It isn’t a modern performance car so much as a vintage sports car filtered through expected and mandated modernity. I had a ‘70 240Z and ‘74 260Z (earlier smaller bumpers) and this car is much closer to them than the bloated touring car Nissan is passing off now. Hell, I…

If it’s like the 2.0 Ecoboost, it’s a “normal” consumption according to the dealer, but really a design flaw that reveals itself in the need for a new long block. What the exact nature of it is, IDK as I haven’t been able to find out beyond a coolant passage from block to head might have been poorly machined or cast,…

FYI: some of those people swerving at you on your loud bike are only pretending to not see you.

I’d say I’ll never buy a BMW, but I never would have bought their overrated, overpriced junk even when they weren’t appallingly hideous and still offered a decent drive. But if I was a marketing parasite at BMW and very familiar with the BMW demographic, I would be surprised by the backlash. I’ll bet most of the…

This is similar to the story that I heard. Prior to recognized industry standards for mixing paint that we take for granted today, it was nearly impossible to assure an exact color match from one batch of paint to another except for black, so if Ford ran out of a batch of red in the middle of a car, they’d have to…

With depreciation, that’s how they end up by the time they’re 20 years old.

No, the 2.0 Ecoboost doesn’t blow head gaskets, it gets cracked heads and the Ford TSB 19-2346 states the remedy is engine replacement. While my Focus SE did over 200k without issue, it also had a small mystery coolant usage throughout its life as reported on the Ecoboosts, so while it might not list the N/A engines…

I’m pretty sure there’s a class in US business school that teaches this tactic until one is large enough to just buy senators.

Which one?

Yes, and before airbags, but they can be restarted, no? I would think if they can’t that it would be a safety issue, such as in cases like this. I’ve never had the airbags go off in a crash, but my 2012 Focus got rear ended on the highway hard enough that the car behind was stopped by the rear suspension crossmember…

RS. The Ecoboost 2.0 has a different coolant burning issue unrelated to the head gasket, the exact nature of which I haven’t been able to find, but the TSB recommends entire engine replacement when the chronic mystery of the missing coolant eventually manifests in a rolling smoke screen.

While I find the profligate waste disgusting, that’s actually pretty damn good compared to the underpowered 4 that doesn’t do much better, if not necessarily surprising considering the 4 will be under a higher load any time it wasn’t idling and would require a shorter ratio gearbox for those squirrel legs to have any…

I think it was Ryan Air that tried to get standing room approved a little while ago, but it got shot down.

Disegno di Spirograph.

I’m even thinking of getting a trailer for my kayaks since the GR won’t handle a roof rack (or at least I’m not willing to try). I expect to hear a lot of dumb comments from dull people about how I should have a truck. Funny thing with that, though, is that I was considering a Maverick when the ST blew up, but then…

I just finished fitting a 2" Gen 1 stealth hitch (completely hidden when desired) on my Gen 2 (took some modification as they’re not quite the same, but the bumper beam is the same part number between gens, so I thought it would be simple) and the Kuat hitch rack is more solid than when it was on my ST, so this is the…

That’s less than 1% of the weight of a typical EV. I’m sure there are smarter, more sustainable ways to save weight.

This is fiberglass, which is infrequently recycled and it is a messy process. As a small component on a vehicle made up of a myriad of materials that need to be separated, it will either be expensive to recycle or not done (guess which one it will be) whereas the old steel springs that have an extremely low failure…

I doubt that cat will be OK—these degenerates probably fucked it before they hanged it.