What about an intercooler? It looks stock, how hard do they check? I don’t relish peeling the front end off my car to go back to a stock IC just for a smog check, but with the stock IC the car’s in limp mode basically all summer long :|

This reminds me of when my wife said I needed to sell one of my old motorcycles, so I put it up for sale for 10x it’s actual value lol. “Sorry honey, no bites yet!”

Selling a car is bonkers right now. I have a 2017 Fiesta ST with 30k miles on it that I bought new for $17k, and I was just offered offered $16.5k from carvana. Absolutely nuts. Would’ve taken it if a replacement was reasonable right now, but near me there are just no cars to buy (that I want). I was thinking about…

He’s against abortion isn’t he? Wasn’t remdesivir developed using aborted fetal cells? I could be wrong but I think I remember reading that... so, won’t vaccinate, is against abortion, is taking a treatment that was possibly created using the results of abortions.

$30K plus for a car that can’t get to Vegas is a no go.

Ew, this is like being surprised with a picture of someone’s hemorrhoids.

It’s the car equivalent of just being happy to be alive. It’s a car, and it cars. That’s it. No enjoyment, no excitement, it’s a transportation appliance. There’s a certain nobility to that... but they cost too much for the experience of driving one. In something that boring it might as well drive itself.

Pontiac Fiero. It was dent proof! It could be rebodied into anything! It could easily hold a V8 (and a v8 swapped fiero that takes an afternoon to swap was a ridiculously fun car!). They handled pretty well, were inexpensive to maintain, and in 1988.. they were finally getting bespoke hardware and could really handle.

People can have opinions different from yours.

I wonder if an LS swap would fix the maintenance issues lol.

I drove a friend’s sport because I was thinking about buying one and I just couldn’t do it. The novelty of launching hard wore off pretty quickly and the car was totally devoid of personality. I also couldn’t get over how disconnected I felt from the car, and how bad the exterior build quality was. Could fit a pencil…

I still wonder who at Honda thought “Man, HDMI ports look great, lets put one on the back of the new civic”.

Glad you picked up what I was puttin’ down

The all new Stockholm Syndrome would be a great name for a Prius in grand theft auto :)

If you’re in prison long enough it starts to feel like home. Same thing.

Fiat 500 Abarth, like my photo here. It’s not fast, but it is an absolute blast to zip around in. You can go 10/10ths and still not really be going that fast, but it feels like you are and sounds amazing. Plenty of grip, the awkwardly high seating position makes things feel more exciting... it’s just a good time.

As a fiesta st owner... blend door actuators lol.

Fiat 500 abarth! Has personality in spades, available with a reasonably ok manual, fun to drive, tall seating position that is easy to get in and out of.

I swear every time I see one of those tiburons its a coin toss as to whether it makes me want to barf or I like it.

I know many regard it as sick and wrong, but I kinda want to see what the new Z will look like with rear window louvers. I saw a rocket bunny bodied BRZ with the rear window louvers and it was the perfect mix of new and old.