Whoosh! The Alfasud is here.

God bless your batshit father. I hope heaven has cars up there fast enough for him.

Posted this a month or so ago on Oppo, but I’ll repost it here.

My Dad’s driving would put the Andrettis to shame. One July 4th weekend, he passed twenty four vehicles ( two passes of 12 each) on Minnesota Hwy 47, a two lane, in his 1968 Dodge Van. If I hadn’t survived the experience from the passenger seat, I wouldn’t have believed it. Many times he had his 1965 Olds F-85 up to…

“Getting past the fact that the car wasn’t safe enought that it lead to such a horrific disability”

Getting past the fact that the car wasn’t safe enought that it lead to such a horrific disability, he should continue his career in motorsport. We live in an age where losing legs or arms, as devastating as it will always be for the person involved, doesn’t mean that your life is over. Frederic Sausset comes to mind…

That was actually a reasonably cool cool story bro, bro.

Honda also makes quite a fast FWD track car... It’s called the Civic Type-R.

I think I’m still going to buy this FWD one because anyone who tracks their vehicles knows that weight and friction kill you. 5.4 0-60? Who cares. I want lap times similar to the AWD competition which I saw I could do with my old Focus ST.

When your F1 engine is so bad it makes the company completely abandon the V6.

I’m sure a month from now it’ll also fly into low-earth orbit, have 1-bajillion horsepower, quick charge 400 miles range in 3 minutes flat and have a 0-60 time that rivals lightspeed…oh wait and they’ll all be sold out.

I had to check what you’re saying, and you’re absolutely right about those fog lights.

Boxers, and a CVT Pathfinder?

Could it be that stock vehicles aren’t designed to be jumped? It’s still a 5,500-6,000lb vehicle that wasn’t ever intended to leave the ground. Also, who knows how much this moron has abused this thing in the past, or how many miles are on it...and it’s not “new” regardless of whatever misleading title you put on it,…

Here I am jumping my mostly stock suspension 2000 GMC Sierra onto hard packed dirt. I bounced twice after landing and my power steering fluid turned to foam, but the truck had zero damage afterwards. This wasn’t even the biggest jump of the day, just the only one that got caught on camera. Besides lift spindle…

I wonder if the surface had anything to do with it. On landing the wheel might’ve dug in transferring more load to the suspension than would happen when rolling on a hard surface.

Once I saw the driver, it was immediately clear why it landed drivers side-front first

Yeah I was expecting to see the dude try and rock a Raptor-sized jump, but that was pretty tame, to be honest. Probably a combination of bad luck (looks like he landed the drivers side-front first) and poor quality FCA part.

Seems pretty weak to me to be honest. When I was a young, dumb kid I had a ‘94 Thunderbird and a stretch of road with plenty of peaks sufficient to catch some air, and in my young, dumb kidness, I took advantage of that many times without breaking anything on the car once. “Ram tough” my ass.

Ugh, can we go back in time to whenever the first person decided these wheels looked good, and just kinda kidnap whoever that was and leave them in Havana with no money and no ID, so I don’t have to see these on every mall-crawling brodozer coming my way? I’d rather every off-road car anywhere had to wear bright white…