Good lord that Hyundai has to be one of the ugliest cars I’ve seen in years. They took a look at the Mercedes CLS and decided it needed to mate with an Infiniti J30 from 1993 and then put the whole thing in a toaster oven to melt. For good measure, threw a little spoiler on the “back” to make it sporty or something.

These aren’t that rare or hard to find, and also tend to be pretty cheap. With the near-guarantee that there will be more rust (clearly been sitting outside a lot), I think you can probably get a reasonable driver for same ornot much more. The hardtop may be the only exception — no idea how tough those are to find.

I always liked these, but they were never worth much. Neither is this one. Cut that price in half and you’re in the ballpark. 

yea good point on washing the oil off the cyl walls -- the fuel itself just burns and causes a rich condition.

the fuel itself burns off but wonder if it impacts the detergents and additives in the oil? Rich conditions will coke up plugs and stuff, and potentially also wash the oil layer off the cylinder walls. I feel like I’m missing a chunk of this analysis though.

yep exactly what happened to mine. LTFTs were like -15 lol

I am not entirely following. I have had a bad HPFP before, and it leaked gasoline into the oil via the seal from the HPFP to the cam driving it. This is a fairly common failure mode, and dilutes oil, sounds like what the article is getting at. It does not cause low oil levels or drive consumption as much as add to the…

IMO the best deal out there right now is the 2017+ BMW M550. The G30 5 series gets the 2nd technical update of the twin turbo v8 and can be had around 30k. It’s 75% of the M5 at half the price or less (and softer/more comfortable), can be tuned easily into the 600s as well. 

Anecdotally I recall those mazda gearboxes weren’t terribly strong for this application, but I always wanted to drive one out of curiosity. I appreciate that Ford was doing something different with these big coupes (see previous gen with the turbo 2.3 as well) which felt quite innovative at the time. For 1989 the…

These manuals are pretty sought after (by a small audience, but still). I always liked the spider, its a handsome GT car. The Ghibli and QP are also-rans in the lux space, which were not competitive vs. the E class and 5 series (and also more expensive). I don’t even know how they sold so many of them -- that said…

This guy gets it. Generative AI saves me probably 2-3 hours a day of writing emails, doing documentation templates, etc. You don’t just dump info into it and go/trust — it requires review but it is SO much faster to put a solid prompt in, and then pick the 60% that it generates in seconds that you already had in mind,…

a 21 year old audi A4. Everything. When it runs, damn its a good drive with the 3.0 howling but the whole fucking thing falls apart and leaks faster than I can fix it. Said leaks have resulted in a biology experiment inside as well.

C4s are so cheap — you can find good, clean running examples for 5k pretty easily, and if you wanted to upgrade to C5s, those are plentiful at 10k. I’d say this is not worth the 2-3k in time and parts to get it operational when marketplace is full of half decent runners that you can take out for a test drive.

Or in the case of a lot of tunes, a useless proprietary cable you use once. 

It is frustrating, I concede. But it is nothing new. GM has their “GMPP” performance packages for example. While they are tune and hardware, it’s still a warranty-maintained upgrade that “could” have come from the factory. I am  familiar with the Kappas from the late 2000s, GM would install new MAP sensors, intake and…

All stems from a lack of financial literacy. I see people complaining about the cost of living left and right (and it is legitimate concern for sure), and I also see tons of 50k+ SUVs and pickups driving around...BMW, Lexus, Merc all seem to be doing just fine, etc. My only conclusion is that people finance up to…

It’s not a desirable car, but does look reasonably clean...not my cup of tea, but I think this could be a NP if there isn’t a couple of inches of bondo anywhere and the seller is fine going a bit lower. Someone will get a nice cruiser that their parents had back in the day.

Yeah this has been happening for a number of articles for me lately. You scroll to a certain point and it autoredirects. I guess its a horrendous way to get more impressions....

The Kappas won SCCA autocross class championships and were regularly competitive. You don’t see many because they were only sold for 4-5 years before GM killed the brands, and don’t have the aftermarket support the Miatas have after 30 years of being in the market.

I love this car - weird, pretty, good shape, and reasonably priced. NP all day