Yep, totally depends. I used to work at Autozone, GM cars have very weak ball joints throughout - control arms as well as pitman arms on the trucks. But Subies (especially later model Legacy/Outback) tend to have weak wheel bearings and the older models will need a front O2 sensor, knock sensor and valve cover gaskets…

Can’t find a T-Bird Elan + parts to make this car for that price. I would proudly do burnouts all over town in this hoon machine, Nice Price all day. Something about a manual T-Bird with side pipes just makes me giggle.

It’s meant to be a hyper-efficient, cheap commuter for families, students, etc. If dad works 45 minutes away in the city, you can have an Elio for him and a minivan or SUV for mom and the kids. Your kid just turned 16, get them an Elio - airbags and safety features, only one other seat (no carloads of teenagers here)…

30k on a clutch, I don’t think so! A clutch kit for my Impreza (2.2 NA) is something like $115 on RockAuto for a nice Sachs kit and it’s a few hours to have it done at a shop. If you can drive correctly a clutch should last easily 100,000 miles or more. On a little car like a Fiesta with a good driver I wouldn’t be…

Nice price for sure. Looking on Hemmings, AutoTrader, etc these go for $5k-10k in the states for non-running unrestored examples. $10k for a good running and driving P1800ES (even if it does need weather stripping and a paintjob) sounds like NP to me. Import fees, yes but it’s not a CP by any stretch.

That sounds pretty wicked, do you have any pictures? How much power does that make?

I worked as a valet at a hospital during the summer of 2015 and heard some great stories, but this one is my favorite.

I worked as a valet at a hospital during the summer of 2015 and heard some great stories, but this one is my favorite.

You can already run that in NASA with no issues. If you have a proper cage and the safety gear required you can run whatever car you want.

I wonder that too, my team has run 2 NASA events so far and other than some volunteer issues they are run pretty smoothly and everyone seems to get along. But, it wouldn’t be motorsports without endless sanctioning bodies competing with one another :)

Not when running an instrumented engineering test, it’s not. They’re running tailpipe sniffers, monitoring fuel injected and efficiency, etc. In the real world, yes, it absolutely is. I get anywhere from 27-31 MPG on my commute every day depending on weather, AC setting, etc. But for an average improvement that’s a…

Agreed. Most people don’t realize that building the US a wagon is very very expensive - we have different emissions regulations, crash testing, safety requirements, etc. It’s not as simple as “throw the A4 powertrain in a wagon body.”

Agreed, this is my issue with a lot of Subaru dealerships too. They won’t allow test drives on the WRX and STI. I know I like the power and the looks and I know on paper how it drives, but I will never buy a car I can’t sit in and drive at least around the block.

I imagine the double-counting on the unwinds probably isn’t as big of a deal as it seems, if the quota is 100 and you moved 96, they might “sell” 4-5 cars to make it over the hump but I doubt the dealers are overstating 20, 30, 100 cars a month in this way. They say the old method was within 1% of the new one, it just…