Looking at you, Navient, which is definitely not just Sallie Mae wearing a different hat

Meh. There really isn’t that much energy stored in them. Whenever I change a shock on a macpherson strut assembly, I just lay it on the floor, stand with one foot on the spring, then knock the nuts holding the strut mount off. Nothing flies that far, shock slides a foot at most away. Installation only requires…

Literally nobody said CUVs weren’t a compromise. Most sedans lack fold down seats that are implemented in a way that’s useful. Really it’s pretty much just VW and maybe Volvo who do it right, everyone else does it poorly.

This is a good thing. Hyundais are invariably junk, and sedans are a compromise none need make in 2022.

So, basically, they’re taking the Scion approach

Most of these were either junk or not cheap when they were new. 

Of the 22,215 passenger vehicle occupants killed in 2019, 47% were not wearing seat belts.

Just drop the floor and put a Kirkey in it. Yeah it’s gonna suck a little, but less than you think (assuming you haven’t already).  You can always weld a stock floor back in...

Every time a ZDX gets posted, I feel compelled to comment that it was actually not a badge engineered Crosstour; moreover, it wasn’t even on the same platform as a Crosstour. Such a weird, niche car. Now we have a couple dozen ZDX knockoffs from every luxury and pseudoluxury brand. But the ZDX did it first. 

9A, not ABF. 220mm block, not the ABF/ABA’s 236. It’s more like 2k right now to get a car here. And we did get B3 9A wagons in the US, just not very many.

Saw your other comment, did you buy this from Open Air/import with Nick?

Speaking as a VW guy, VW guys don’t actually have 10k.

That’s a 9A, not an ABA. The fact that the seller calls it an ABA (taller deck height block, same bore and stroke, but 8 valves) and dumped it on the ultimate scene setup of $2000 of wheel with $50 of suspension tells me all I need to know. CP.

The key difference is that the FWD Mopar Shelbys were actually good. They handled great and were fast. Pretty sure they never touched any captive import Mitsus, though. Which is unfortunate, because then we would have gotten cars that were simultaneously fast, handled good, and had some semblance of reliability.

Oh yeah cage and no harness is sketchy as hell.

Yeah, I’m gonna go out on a limb and trust the aero design of people who design racecars, rather than some rando internet commenter... 

This is true, but I can count on zero fingers the number of times I’ve seen a car roll on track. 

The biggest thing those have is longer suspension travel. I got to talk to Robby Gordon and a few drivers at an SST race at Mid Ohio last summer (all super cool guys!). Those trucks have standard racing seats in them, no excess cushioning. Sat in one, standard racecar stuff. They have very long travel suspension, lots…

Some PCA chapters are requiring a roll bar/hoop if a harness is being run. That one’s kind of ridiculous IMO, I know plenty of people who run just a harness bar, or even the style of harness that clips into the rear seatbelt receivers. 

A few notes. Robins don’t flip. You’re literally from the UK, you know this. They don’t have enough power to go fast enough to tip, and even if they did, their 900 pound weight and soft suspension prohibits this. You go into a corner too fast? Inner rear wheel lift and that open diff keeps your speed in check.