Honestly, Toyota just needs to split the suspension options from all the different packages and just let you order the one you want regardless. That was my main complaint when my wife and I were shopping for her 4Runner. You could only get X-REAS on the Limiteds, KDSS on an Off-Road, and the Fox suspension on a TRD…

How about every automaker is allowed to make X number of ICE vehicle per year, regardless of what their overall output is?  That would put everyone on an even playing field and still allow niche carmakers to be wholly EV if they felt like it, with the understanding that they wouldn’t really be able to grow their…

I grew up in an 87 S10 and it was a bizarrely bulletproof little machine. Toward the end of its life it sat in my grandmother’s driveway and never drove for months or maybe even years. She had a large commercial mower that I used to mow her lawn with as a kid and it died one day in the front yard so I figured I’d try…

Now think about the extra charging benefits of a battery around 1/3rd the size.

Haha, no. I don’t think there’s any way you could get this to carry any weight when you look at the real numbers. Actual private consumer vehicle use is a tiny fraction of global emissions, so I don’t think you can go after just them when you have all those other huge targets out there. Are they trying to sue China…

I’m not sure that really matters for the Viper. The car is 50/50 weight balance, so regardless of what side the engine is on your trailer balance would be the same.  The Viper is also pretty short, so it all fits on the trailer pretty well with limited overhang.

Interesting. I guess the 18 year old restriction helps a little, but the first thing that went through my mind was that it effectively completely kills off some genres of games, at least for those under 18. JRPGs are some of my favorites, but they are basically 40+ hours minimum to beat most, and at only 3 hours a…

The only trouble I had with them is the tire nets and the front tire stop don’t work well for low slung sports cars.  I had to tow my Viper home after an incident once and couldn’t quite find a good way to get it to fit.  I tried actually backing the car on the trailer where I’d have more clearance for the tire stops,…

Dodge basically did this will all bolt on parts back in the day, aside from the intake, so I don’t think it’s that daunting of a project.  I’ve got a gen 3 Viper already, so I guess I already know how to work on this, lol.

Gen 1 notwithstanding, the Vipers are the best built machines that Mopar has ever made.  My 04 has 128,000 miles on it and barely a speck of rust or other corrosion despite it being a daily driver for me in the Midwest with snow being the only thing that kept it in the garage.  The early cars were admittedly parts bin…

I’m sure if you dug deep enough someone would probably find a reason to bash him as well.

I guess I’ve never been in the camp that thinks driving a fast car slow is not fun.  I love daily driving my Viper for any reason.  Doesn’t matter if I’m doing 30 or 130, it’s just fun to be in.  It’s basically instant torque all the time regardless of what gear you’re in and laser quick handling, so you don’t have to…

One of my friends was obsessed with Repo.  I must have watched it a half dozen times with her.  It was novel for sure, but not exactly my preferred movie variety.

Ah, interesting.  I’ve mostly only driven in Sweden, Finland, and Poland for work stuff.  Technically we landed in Germany and drove to Poland so we did see a little bit of higher speed stuff, but Sweden for sure was smaller roads and Poland was kind of in the middle.  Some roads there were more like US highways, but…

I’m not saying you can’t use them on the highway, but I don’t think that’s the most common use for them. Maybe I’m way off since I don’t live in Europe, but the few times I’ve traveled over there I noticed that speeds and distances traveled just aren’t really the same over there as here in the US. Highways aren’t…

Really city/highway mileage is fine, they just need a range that covers cold to hot. So it goes from 2 numbers to 6 potentially, but that would cover it pretty well. They just need to pick standard temperatures to test at, something like 30 F and 100 F or something like that. Maybe go lower like 20 F, but that would…

Something about this doesn’t quite add up to me.  I get that Europe makes more sense with tiny little engines and lower horsepower numbers.  Cars there tend to be more city affairs or narrow roads and lower speeds where you really don’t need that much power (there are exceptions like the Autobahn).  Why would you need…

My mom finally got hers:

I wouldn’t necessarily just buy a kid something cheap and appliance-y. I think that’s probably one reason a lot of cars get wrecked. I agree more with the Focus viewpoint in some ways. Get them something they like and can be proud of and they’re much more likely to take care of it. Buy them something that is a…

The LeSabre?  No, not in my experience at least.  I had a friend of a friend in college that had one that kept bringing it to me to work on.  He was an exchange student and not always the brightest, but that car was junk.  3 of the 4 window regulators died, there was a coolant leak, and eventually the whole thing must…