Uhh... I’m going to have to agree with FiveOhNo, here. When it comes to driving under the conditions that most normal people drive, an intermediate sized, naturally aspirated, engine will generally see better fuel economy. The reason for this is Brake Mean Effective Pressure. As I’m sure you know, gasoline engines…

I should probably clarify - when I say ‘easy’, I mean that it can be done in a 1/2-day/6-pack, and with requisite sweat/swearing. It’s definitely not as easy as a DOHC 4 cyl, which is, like, 30 minutes with a 15min beer break included.

Lancia has done it to some extent:

sadly, no 3d printing. I can help you on the review, though...

At risk of catching hell from the VW faithful (I may have mentioned triple squares once or a dozen times here before), a decent wobble head plug wrench is the only special tool needed to make the plug changes easy.

Adding to that, bearings tend to behave better as bearings, the wider the uninterrupted length (cavitation and distortion issues not withstanding). As a result, a single bearing of width 2x is going to support WAAAAY more load than 2 bearings of width x (the difference is not linear, because nothing in fluid dynamics…

Point taken on the LJ front. One of those would be outstanding!

Not trying to be contrarian, here, but what’s so special about the engine developed by Elio? From what I remember, it’s just a high compression, port injected, naturally aspirated engine without any proprietary mileage tech.

I like where you’re head’s at. Mind you, you’re not going to find an unlimited with the good driveline bits for less than $30,000 unless it has a bajillion miles on it, it’s wrecked, or both.

That last part is a huge portion of why the elio has 3 wheels. 3 wheeled vehicles are considered motorcycles by the DOT, and as such are required only to adhere to motorcycle rules.

Ironically, they didn’t even hide this portion of the study. Ballaban (and apparently the lobbyists) acknowledge this fact, but hand wave it away. See below for what I’m on about.

The new MKZ can be had with a 400hp 3.0L Ecoboost and the AWD system out of the Focus RS. It might not be a personal lux-o-sport, but it’s certainly combines “fast from a dig” and “many miles at many miles an hour, in many comforts” nicely.

Much as I hate to defend ANYTHING from the dudebro culture side of the Subaru community, they do have a point when it comes to T6. It’s a high wear additive package (Like any diesel oil should be - dat zinc content!) full synthetic 5w-40, with good shear resistance and a low price tag. Are there other oils out there…

I’m in southern Indiana, so pretty much at the same altitude.

Having kept my STi bone stock for 5.5 years, and still having a stock Outback, I can confirm that this is not just Tuned / beat on car issue. It’s also not a turbo specific issue (the outback is just the NA SOHC EJ25) What’s more, both of my cars lead relatively easy lives, with the majority of their time spend…

Fuel oil dilution tends to be hard on engine oil.

No. Crooked Trump talks about rolling back cafe standards across the board, and all of Jalopnik looses their goddamn minds. Funny, that.

I suppose it depends on whether one considers ~50,000 vehicles a year to be “slow” sales.

I like where you’re going with this, but I have a feeling reality is going to get in the way of that original engine. It’s definitely neither sacrilegious enough nor cheap enough to justify its continued existence in this masterpiece of cocaine cowboy era excess.

Uhh... the corvette starts at $56k, and the basest Porsche 911 STARTS at $91k (and has such amenities as doors and a steering wheel). That’s a huge difference. If you’re going to claim that no one would buy less than a Corvette z51, with the 2LT package and the Mag. adjustable suspension, that bumps the price to…