Love that it actually drives, though I think it would drive a LOT better (not faster, of course, but much less jerky) with some kind of flywheel.

I stand by my original comment. Maybe I’d revise it to the last twenty-nine years to fit the NSX in there. The rest? Bland at best, bloated at worst.

S2000 is a great car from an engineering standpoint, but the looks aren’t anything to get excited about.

Shame we won’t be getting it. This is the best looking car Honda has introduced in more than 30 years.

“Personally, I like the smooth and calm demeanor of the hybrid powertrain. It suits the Alphard more. This thing is all about having the most relaxing journey to your destination.”

The SX/4 is pretty hip, and always has been. And this coming from a guy who loves wagons, and especially woody wagons.

Got it, so it’s not that the driving itself is sketchy, just that you’re not comfortable driving on the bridge. I get it—my mom ended up selling her cottage in the UP because she got so nervous about driving over the bridge that she basically couldn’t do it. It’s the mesh in the left lane that makes the car wiggle, so…

I can actually hear Clarkson’s voice while I watch that.

“Sketchy on a nice day”??? What are you talking about? I’ve driven that bridge hundreds of times and it’s got to be *really, really* windy before it gets sketchy. Hell, I’ve pulled my 24' enclosed, extra-tall race trailer across the bridge on a windy day (when they had speed advisories posted) and that was no big deal…

Trying to figure out the thought process...

A terrible waste of space that is no fun to drive, bloated, heavy, and failed miserably in the marketplace. And if you were really stupid, you could get it with a gasoline engine, and watch the mileage drop to nil anytime you carried a load or towed something. Great idea right?

Related funny story from my VW dealership days. VW sent us a ‘98 Passat Syncro wagon (not the renamed 4motion that would show up several years later) for display in our showroom. We had an overzealous salesman who sold it and our GSM let it get delivered despite the fact that VW had never given us an MSO for the car.…

Yes, frequently under the guise of vastly overpriced floormats, paint protection, window etching, etc.

Thanks for that. I had assumed some connections at Ford or the dealer in question, but that is a pretty cool story and would never have happened that way in modern times. I was working at a VW dealer when the New Beetle came out in ‘98 and there would have been some serious hell to pay had we sold our first car early…

I think maybe the more interesting story is how a 22-year-old woman became the first person to own the very hotly anticipated Mustang! 

Nice that he gave some attention to the oddball V(R)5 engine, but he’s definitely confused on the valvetrain layout of the 10-valve engine, which does not have separate intake and exhaust cams working on rocker arms. Instead, it has one cam with four lobes for the bank of two cylinders and one cam with six lobes for…

This is pretty damned cool to see. I thought very hard about doing this with an old Simca I used to own that had a bad engine. A motorcycle-based driveline seemed like a relatively cheap and easy option. But the lack of torque scared me off a little. Even though the Simca was a relatively light car, it was still 3-4x…

Not a turbo diesel (I don’t think the turbo was available until later and in any event, the intake is not correct for the turbo diesel). Still don’t know how to tell the difference between a C-matic and a standard trans in the pics provided by Copart, but I’ll take your word for it. And I wouldn’t feel too bad for…

I was actually looking at the diesel injectors and injection pump, which are visible right behind the valve cover and a pretty good giveaway (along with the lack of plug wires or a distributor) that this is a compression-ignition engine.

Take a closer look, it is a diesel.