VAG just barely relearned how to make dipstick holders that don’t break and release crankcase gasses, only the idiots at EPA and CARB could believe they were capable of meeting diesel standards. Any smog tech would agree, kick out German cars and our air will be clean.

Total War: Lego?

It was like a RWD Accord built in China, such a shame, should have put that body on a Crown Vic.

Come to Oakland so I can smog it and you can ask how I am going to test an AWD car on a 2WD dyno, unfortunately I can’t pass it but I will give you a piece of paper telling you it does not belong in CA!

I had a shit head from CA BAR tell me I tested a GTI in the incorrect gear because the dealer called it a manual when it had DSG.

Standard really referred to the people of acceptable mental prowess that could drive a manual, meeting the “standard” , “retard” is the proper term for automatic drivers.

No one has given the world more RWD/Turbo goodness than Nissan, even if our country never let the right ones in. One thing anyone who has driven Japanese built Nissans will tell you, Nissan loved it’s customers and loved building those cars for us. Maybe those guys are dead or working for Hyundai now, but we can never…

Damn kids cant google worth a damn before opening their mouths theses days.

So shes TransRacial, big deal. If someone wants to identify with another CULTURE, let them do it. Skin color does not determine behaviour, nor does the country ones ancestors came from.

280ZX won more races in US than any recent Z, sadly.

All I do at work is look at cars and decide their fate; the Porsches don’t get enough miles on them to experience the regular VAG problems. And they cough up enough money that things get replaced before they can be an issue.

The ICE piston and poppet valve configuration itself, we are beating a 200 year old horse to death. 70% of the energy produced goes to heat waste and moving the parts into position for the next cycle. Plus the unburnt gasses require expensive metals to monitor and control, the lubricant is contaminated by design and…

They better build something, what Nissan’s will our grandchildren have left to drift when we run out of s13s and 14s? I know we still have some S12s left, and many many Z31s, the Z32’s are dying quick though. I see a bleak future of nothing but G/Z and maybe some wacky M’s sliding around.

What is that? Some sort of texting joystick that displays the text in a HUD so you can see the road too? Brilliant.

Where did he memorize a V9?

2000+ cars dont go on the dyno anymore, we just plug into OBDII and let the states computer in a remote facility somewhere frisk the ECM over the internet.

Its pretty easy to do it CA legal, looks like there is a plug on the air cleaner, he was lazy and decided not to put the air pump maybe. It also needs the ECM and EVAP system from the engines donor.

TOCA! If you haven’t won a race after spending hours in the practice session to barely get 3rd in qualifying and then have your hood fly up and block your view for 2 laps after bumping into someone on the first lap, then you just haven’t played a good racing game.

The looks are the problem, all people wanted was an ugly RWD corolla with an L4 engine and a head from Yamaha. The Subie can look good but needs the flat 6 and more SVX.