SVT Contour with the 3.0L block from the Taurus/Sable/Escape and the 2.5L SVT heads from the Contour plus a beefed up 5-speed with a Quaife LSD = awesome.

That’s pretty much what I typically do. Maybe go for two minutes if it is especially cold (for me) like when it got down in the mid single digits Fahrenheit a few weeks back which is very cold for NC.

I always remind people. You are better off just letting the car warm up for 1 minute and then just driving GENTLY until the car warms up than you are letting the car warm up stationary for 15 minutes. You have a warm engine and and cold transmission. It is best to warm them up together by just driving the car easily…

I bought a new Saab at the beginning of the end, in 2007. 2017 is the year I stop using it as a daily driver. By the end of the month it should be safely tucked into the garage. It’ll likely never be a collector car, but the low build number, 1 of 106, makes it rare enough to hang on to.

Here is a two photos of all the in the racks at my workshop, they are know as Subaru 1235 engines. As you can see there are plenty of original castings.

Can confirm. I have two B13 SE-Rs in my garage. Occasionally I just walk over, open the garage door, exclaim “WOW!” and close the door.

I have a a heap of the spare parts from the Subaru F1 race team for these motors, there are enough parts to build up 2 complete motors and also a number of bits to make part motors. For example a number of raw unmachined castings etc. I am a Subaru tragic so have a Subaru FJ1600 open wheeler from Japan as well. My…

Can confirm that it is a lot more fun with 4 more.....so with some quick math (I’m not rocket surgeon) would say a metric shit tonne more.

I know she said she wants a German car, but she really should buy a WRX.

You just can’t beat that blend of practicality, safety, and fun value for the money. It’s pretty much the ideal vehicle for any young parent still trying to hold onto having fun while making the responsible choice for their kids.

If it has to be…

What did they expect? SUVs aren’t built for the track.

Sounds like they’re afraid of some stiff competition. They’re gonna fight hard for this one. Don’t want anybody penetrating their market. It may be a dick move, but they refuse to be flaccid on this.

Attention National Auto Dealers Association Members:
No one likes buying cars from you. Ever. At all. In any way. I do not want to sit in a room with “complementary” shitty coffee while you go into the back room and joke about my wife’s breasts with your co-workers... I’m sorry, I meant “talk to your manager”...…

Isn’t fucking people already in their business model?

This guy’s got over 180,000 miles on an ILX?! Is that a typo?! They just came out in 2013!! That would work out to over 60,000 miles a year!! Even if he got it right when it came out four years ago, that’s still 45,000 miles a year!!

I have to say, having watched the Grand Tour yesterday and now this, I like this a lot better. The boys are really fun to watch when they are goofing around, but their reviews were starting get a bit stale. LeBlanc has a nice delivery and his opinions aren’t just the same superlatives repeated over and over again. I…

Seems appropriate:

That’s pure Gilles Villeneuve.
That wheel lock up just transpires Dijon 1979:

“...it would be nice to have something that breaks infrequently...”

In 1992, 27 year old me and my new bride went to Cancun and when we hailed a Tsuru cab she would joke that we were driving in ‘my’ car since I had a relatively new 1991 Sentra SE-R back home. I am now almost 52, we have been divorced for ten years (it was because of the Tsuru comment in 92) and I have had six new cars…