Most regular cars from regular manufacturers from Japan or South Korea will NOT have parts availability issues, even if they go bankrupt. I have a 10 year old Mazda which I maintain myself, and I can find absolutely EVERYTHING I need on Rockauto.com. You’re always going to get charged more at the dealer for parts, but…

While I respect the capabilities of GM’s big-and-small block engines, I feel like swapping them into cars designed for different engine configurations kind of dulls what made the original cars special. LS swapping a Mercedes works because they’ve been offered with big V8s for decades. A 1JZ/2JZ would be more…

Can’t you already get a Thar here? Off road only because it’s not federalized IIRC. 

Wheel Pros absolutely GUTTED the YouTube content. Post Covid, Hoonigan struggled to stay consistent, but there was always something going on. They probably shifted the guys responsible for content to business jobs even though the life of the company was almost ENTIRELY video based. I think it’s been about a solid YEAR…

I’m thinking Wheelpros is the source of the debt. It’s a tough time for the automotive aftermarket industry. As we’ve seen with Recaro and BBS both filing for bankruptcy, I’d imagine Wheelpros was in a similar situation.

Personally, I’m REALLY looking forward to the Rivian R3. If the price is right, that’ll likely be my first EV. 

Hoonigan got bought out by Wheelpros a few years ago, and then Wheelpros and Hoonigan merged under the Hoonigan brand. The brand we know likely did NOT have all that debt

It’s probably not Hoonigan itself as we knew it, but the former Wheelpros parent company (they changed their name to Hoonigan) that has all the debt. There’s no way a small automotive lifestyle brand operating out of a single warehouse selling t-shirts and keychains could rack up that much debt.

Ah, my bad. I had just glanced through the pictures and thought I saw a California license plate. 

With this mileage, I’m surprised the Cali sun hasn’t ruined the clear-coat. The rear window in the soft top looks clear and un-yellowed as well. Not sure if it’s original or not though.

Not sure about people with the know-how, but from what I’ve seen the parts for these GM-era Saabs are pretty easy to get ahold of. Rockauto has an extensive catalog, and even Autozone has some of the more routine maintenance and repair parts. 

Now that NEVS is dead, Volvo needs to snatch up their old factory along with the rights to the Saab name, and bring Saab back to life. I feel like Geely has enough capital to just dump it into Saab and let them do weird shit.  

Yeah, the parts are STILL expensive. My experience is a sample size of one, since I don’t know anyone else who’s owned a VW/Audi from that time period, but mine was very reliable. I think the only things that broke were the power steering pump, driver’s side window regulator (brittle plastic guides), and the coolant…

The cost cutting that coincided with MLB/MQB being adopted (not necessarily BECAUSE of them. Those platforms drastically improved reliability) definitely resulted in VWs getting less nice though. They did the reverse of what Mazda has been doing. VWs have gone DOWN market in terms of interior quality when they stopped…

I miss mid-2000's Volkswagen. Their platform sharing with Audi was much more extensive, so you got some REALLY nice VWs. I had a B5 Passat, and the Audi similarities were obvious. The Passat, Jetta/Golf, and first gen Touareg were all FAR above everything else in their class. As long as you didn’t get any of the more…

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Second best looking of the post-Callum/Fisker Aston Martins, IMO. The Vantage is still carrying the range. I do agree that it’s still a bit grille-heavy. The interior is NICE, but cover up the badge, and I’d have no idea it’s an Aston. There’s just no brand identity inside. Cover up the badge and my first guess would…

hollup... Let him cook... the brakes. 

BIG agree on the interior of the Mustang. The last one felt special, and the gigantic screen takes up so much space that there’s none left for actual DESIGN. Makes it feel very generic inside. Reminds me of the Camaro interior, which is NOT compliment.