I’ve only ever done 2 turbos in my entire time working for Porsche. So unfortunately I have a bit of experience working on cars. None of those are common Honda problems either. I’ll give you coolant and oil leaks. Those happen and aren’t necessarily a reliability defect. Multiple failed turbos, valve timing solenoids…

It looks like the dash gets acne. Google Infiniti Dash Melting. It happens across the board on the fm based SUVs. There was a class action on it that I believe got reversed 

Fake?

Wasn’t trying to make you mad. Mostly because every single one (and most have been post 2015) have been absolute trash trade ins that need too much in repairs. A simple check engine light ends up being a nightmare that costs way too much. My work now just lowballs any mini or X1 because we are well aware it’s just…

Bradley is expanding his shit talking commenters on his own articles to just Jalopnik in general.

Ignition coils, valve covers, front lower control arms, cam sensors, throttle bodies, rear diff mount, premium fuel, etc.

When did Mini’s reliable era start? We still won’t take those things as trades because it’s hard to break even on them after you fix everything that’s wrong with it. 

So put a heavier less powerful V8 in a car, completely redesign everything to fit said V8, and make the car look like ass and weirdly proportioned. Got it.

The crossfire wasn’t so much a collab as a rehash of the SLK. And by rehash it was just a first gen R170 SLK32 with a Chrysler skin. They didn’t even get the R171 chassis that debuted for 2004 alongside the Crossfire. 

Generally what could’ve been a good article was tainted by a shitty ignorant bias. Not to mention too many inline pictures and Kinja cancer means this page runs like 100% ass.

Yeah I think a lot of people who make the argument for the V8 haven’t seen a Prowler in person so they don’t know just how tight that engine bay is.

Christ people have bad memories (or aren’t old enough to have driven the vehicles back then). The V8s were drastically heavier, and even down on power compared to the 3.5L. 

Honestly that “large family car V6” was the best engine they had at the time. The high output 3.5 is a damn fine engine. It’s not like they put the true family car engine in there (the 2.7L V6). Their truck V8s were low on power but high on torque. And also carried another 200ish pounds of weight. Not worth it for two…

What’s weird is that all of those cars genuinely weren’t that bad. Outside of maybe the Sebring rag top cars, the rest were fairly competent dailies. Especially compared to the competition from Ford/GM. I think more young people who want to write about cars needs to spend seat time in some true 90’s shit boxes like…

Because it was heavy and relatively anemic for anything that wasn’t a truck or SUV. The 5.9 isn’t the wonder engine Jalopnik makes it out to be. 

The biggest thing is a ton of people here don’t actually drive anything other than their 20 year old 3 series that’s ragged out. So many people here are Wiki experts and quite a few weren’t alive or were recently born when Prowler production was ending. So like most places this causes a pretty rough commenter and…

Spoiler alert: I’ve been involved in cases with people “putting up a fight”. We aren’t talking about rear fender delete and trickle chargers. We’re talking people fighting that their shitty Cobb accessport couldn’t have ever caused engine damage. 

Talking to an old head in the shop there’s been a limit at least since the early 90’s when state inspectors upheld tint laws (now it’s up to police). 

“While I’d love to see Tesla embrace a robust and safe hacking and modification community”

“Modification X introduces code that can not be verified to work with Component Z, K, and M. Tesla cannot honor the warranty as this may affect overall lifespan or usability of said components.”