I was once a back seat passenger in a ‘94 metro that landed backwards in a beaver lodge at ~110 km/h. These are tin boxes, but somehow everyone was more/less ok, even though every seat back and 3 of the 4 wheels, complete with hub assemblies, snapped clean off the car.

Great read!

Yep. I could average better than 12 mpg in mixed driving with an 8.1L 3/4 ton.

Wildly lethargic - love it! Seeing 3000+ rpm at the posted highway speed limit was always uncomfortable in my ‘93 and I was lucky to get 12 mpg.

I hope it comes with a lifetime supply of head gaskets. The 3VZE has a rear cylinder heat-concentration problem related to the exhaust manifold design. It’s not just getting started at 150K miles...

That’s only ~$1 per cubic foot of awkward plastic bumper. Good deal.

I love an underdog C4, but automatic trans = ND.

Most of the knobs and the control layout look identical to our 2015.

Definitely not arguing that peer-review is perfect and may have actually been the reviewer that requested the addition of the horse hitch on that car. I wrote that comment just minutes after reviewing a particularly bad manuscript that was full of critical flaws.

This study is ‘published’ in a pre-print server, not in a peer-reviewed journal. It shouldn’t be considered a valid study until it has passed through peer-review so reporting on it is hardly legit (other than as click bait, which I guess is how I, and my 2 sports cars, ended up here).

IIRC, race tires don’t contain as much (any?) 6PPD. I think it’s added to ‘regular’ tires to prevent weather cracking.

Miatas are slow and everyone screams driving experience. A T/A like this is loud, flashy, has gobs of torque, and handles better than you’d expect for a malaise-era car. Driving experience.

GM did some great aero work on the S10ev - it had a 3/4 length tonneau cover with the front half open to improve flow over the bed. 

They clearly needed that vomitous widebody kit to clear the massive tires required to handle all the extra power they added. Wait at minute...

RWD sports cars are designed to get rear-wheel traction. RWD pickup trucks are not. Even with a LSD and weight in the bed, they suck.

This affected me more than I expected given that I’m not really a Hoonigan fan. He seemed like a decent human that loved his family and really enjoyed life.

My low point was not having time to drive my hobby cars. Life took over and there was no time to autocross the fast car and no time to cruise the antique. I never wanted garage queens and that’s what they’ve become.

426 Hemi. It’s the iconic representation of the muscle car era.

This was one of the biggest deciding factors when we bought our nearly new Tacoma. We weren’t convinced we’d need a truck and knew we wouldn’t lose money if we decided to sell in a few years.

The factory Torsen is a solid auto-X diff but it doesn’t hold well to slicks + power. I run C4 ZR1 rear wheels all around (17x11) for 315's. A classic GM parts bin budget setup