SUV used to be a term reserved for body-on-frame, truck-based vehicles

It’s perfectly reasonable to have an idea of what normal wear is for a given mileage. Plug wires, however, don’t show wear like that.  They just get grimy, and 40k miles under hood can get them just as filthy as 100k.

For example, if the car’s spark plugs and wires should last 100,000 miles but look like they are due for replacement when the odometer reads 40,000 miles, that’s a problem.

So why was the spoiler mechanically capable of extending to a height it “wasn’t designed to work at” in the first place? If it is designed to function best (and not block the CHSML) at a certain height, that should be limited by hardware, not software. There is something Porsche isn’t telling us.  They put that extra…

I like it. I can see spending at least that much to build it. I can’t see spending anywhere near that much to buy it.

I agree that context is important. It’s not a quantity of ammunition that I travel with as a matter of course, but I do it with enough occasion that “hundreds of rounds” of ammunition is not, to me, indicative of wrongdoing.

I love how “hundreds of rounds” of ammunition is framed as an excessive amount.

The reason insurance rates are as high as they are here in Michigan is no-fault insurance with no cap on medical.

Halfway through reading the headline: “Armed Porsche Boxster...”

This looks distractingly more CGI than Fury Road, and I don’t think it is a movie that needed to be made. I’ll watch it, of course, but I think we got as much backstory as we needed in Fury Road.

I saw the Montana plates, and my initial reaction was to wonder who who go through all that trouble for an SVX. Then I saw that it was listed on Montana Craigslist, and was reminded that Montana is an actual place with actual people who live there. It doesn’t exist solely as a tax-dodge for wealthy car owners.

There isn’t a brand that I hate, but I’m leery of Nissan after the issues I had with a ‘92 Maxima SE I owned a couple of decades ago. That experience is a big part of why I have never and likely will never own a Z32. Such a cool looking car that hits me right in the nostalgia, and it had the best television commercial…

...so it’s not like these owners will have to shell out to have new pieces made.

I know that I upvoted a comment for this in the QOTD post, so I’m quite dismayed to not see it in the slide show.

It doesn’t seem like that long ago that an Esprit in this condition would sell for about half this price, but I feel like I’m saying that about everything these days.

It’s a clean example of a desirable car of an age for which condition should matter more than mileage, but...

Seems like a good place to post this.

Read it backwards.

The clock in my car is set to the correct time, and I didn’t have to change anything.  I just had to wait 8 months.

I have a 2009 9-7x Aero that only gets 16mpg highway unladen. I get better than 12mpg highway with a rooftop tent while pulling a car trailer.