I had a WRX wagon for 9 years. Loved that damned thing. It had your typical smattering of mods: Weds wheels, turbo back exhaust, different sway bars, better rotors, stage 2 tune, snorkus delete, short shift kit...things I could do myself. I autocrossed it for a few years. At one of the events, I ended up working a…
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The SR-71 may not have carried weapons, but the close sibling YF-12 did.
I do like the passing resemblance to the MR2 Group S car.
“Gran Turismo is pursuing a level of realism that can effectively prevent some of its players from even experiencing it” Bad design decisions to place higher level game content behind arbitrary difficulty walls are a hallmark of the series, starting with the license tests.
With the bizarre smoothness of the rotary, I bet this thing is better on the ass and wrists than most bikes in existence.
Cars with noisy exhaust are wonderful. I’m well aware of how big a nuisance they are (and how terrible they can be to drive), but I love them anyway. Is that a straight-through pipe on your WRX? It must be horrible to drive! I salute your dedication, and will give you a friendly thumbs-up!
Semi-auto cruise control is one of those things where the individual parts have huge disparities in overall quality of function. Radar cruise systems that control your speed and automatically brake? Pretty excellent, even in cars with manuals. But anti-lane-departure systems? Holy shit no. Try driving one through…
I have no idea what to call them, but I’ve got a specific group in mind: The dudes who bring their classic car to Cars and Coffee, and then proceed to surround/bury it with trophies, plaques, giant plush stuffed animals, and all manner of junk, to the point where you can’t even see it properly, let alone take a…
It’s a tossup between the Buick Century and the Buick Park Avenue. These are some of the most viciously bland, unkillable machines to ever clog up the road.
I drove from the Denver area to Glendo, WY to see it. Of the pics I shot, this one from the very end took the cake. Worth it. Would see again.
The Golf R rolls on 235/35/19's.
For 10-12k, maybe. For this price, a great big hel-no.
Nope. I had an ‘85 Celebrity with a 2.8 V6, and had to replace the valve cover gaskets every 5,000 miles. Eventually, I gave up and just carried a case of oil in the trunk, adding one quart for every tank of gas. It blew out the valve covers and covered the car, leading to the white paint coming off in your hand…
Looks like a rain shaft.
I’ve been real happy with mine, but I hated the 19" wheels. They looked great, but the 235/35/19 tires had terrible compliance. I switched to 17" wheels and changed to 235/45/17 tires, and the extra inch of sidewall made a big difference.
I get the sentiment; racing in Forza games got monotonous to me years ago. But they’re still my favorite games to pop in and play, as my interests shifted. I spend most of my time in the tuning and paint shops, trying to replicate things I saw in coverage of SEMA, world-wide racing series, or other places, and that…
Some kind of timing this was. I’ve been chasing for years, and used an ‘07 WRX wagon for the last 9 of them. Just recently sold the damned thing for a measly 6 grand. It was pre-loaded for chasing, with additional power supplies, rally lights, and pre-installed hail damage all along the passenger side (that I…
Just how do the fans who paid high prices know that the rando person sitting next to them paid a fraction of the price? Maybe seat price dick size contests with strangers are a thing at Yanks games...
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Open air BOV! Does absolutely nothing for performance! But helps my WRX go from sounding like a weasy helicopter to a weasy helicopter having sex with a garbage truck! Win! As an added bonus, it also fools the car into dumping more gas into the engine after immediately letting off the throttle, which makes it backfire…