And a 9000, which looks even more trunk-like with a faux notch after the rear window.

Wow, this is almost identical to my first car. I’d vote CP on nostalgia factor alone.

Thank you, that’s exactly the type of reaction (“what the heck” followed by a facepalm or similar) I was going for.

You have a third-generation picture (with the open targa top) in the second-generation section.

That ad is really clutching at straws.

Shhh, and yeah I know BMW was focusing on radial and jet engines during the war. 

*give a cap

Supercharged German V-12 you say?

Tell me about it.

It’s nuts how many of those pictures I can tie to specific lines of dialogue.

Er....is Toyota going to care that they’re using the name Harrier, especially considering it’s also an SUV?

Still an angry blob. Yawn.

Yeah, pretty much that, except without the engine swap.

Reminds me of the odyssey I went through to find a clutch master cylinder for a Jaguar XJR. Yes, they came in manual. No, not in the US. No, the correct replacement part is no longer available from any sellers, at least ones that ship to the US. I could (at the time) get one from Aston Martin, as the DB7 used the same…

1. Build the living daylights out of the V12, cranking up the compression, redoing the heads, etc.

And the battlecruiser became obsolete rather quickly once it saw combat, so perhaps this metaphor was apt in a direction you had not intended.

One item that keeps surprising me is MAF sensors. They can go bad without tripping a check engine light, and the impact is often felt in performance (sudden drops in power across certain RPM ranges) rather than actual rough running. Replace it and suddenly it’s all good all the way to redline.

Heineken is what James Bond would drink when he gives up. And yet....

Just not the other way around (in this case, Nissan design with Alfa reliability).

This is the airplane equivalent of a trailerless big rig doing a burnout. Without cargo, these beasts have some serious power to weight ratios.