Car looks fantastic.

I hate to admit but we did this exact same fix to my friends 1980 something Chevy truck when I was in high school. We we’re in the mcdonalds drive thru and the pedal just dropped to the floor. Threw it in park real quick to keep from hitting the car in front of us. After we got our food found one of the front brake…

I’d blame a lot of that on people having zero clue about tires. I’d guess that 90% of people don’t know that tires are no good after 5 years. They may have plenty of tread but are as hard as rocks. Which mean reduced grip in the dry and no grip in the wet.

I’d go with the model of how I got my motorcycle license. You had to take a several day course on driving instruction and passing that got you your license. I guess that leads back to better instruction, mandatory instruction, not just a test. then that leads us down the path of poor people can’t afford the course.....

I love this thing! Kind of looks like an Apollo Gumpert pickup.

To me almost anything american designed from 1975 until around 2000.

That reduces your attendance. Only the hardcore will want to sit in freezing cold weather in January. I love WRC, I’m a WRC+ yearly subscriber, but you wouldn’t catch me in Minnesota in January.

I think you can bring them in for street use under the “show or display” category no problem. Would be a bit of red tape but I think totally achievable.

closer they are to the motor the quicker the heat up to reduce start up emissions. OEM’s are constantly trying to get them as close as they can. One of the reasons some of the new chevys don’t have exhaust manifolds at all.

He just told me yesterday he’s moving to Maine. I guess that problem is solved. 

This is exactly what I was going to post too.

My brother that lives in Marin had the converter stolen last month off his Prius. Only CA approved replacement was from Toyota for $1900. He ended up getting a federal certified cat shipped to a friend in Portland who then shipped it to him in Cali. That was only ~$300. 

The Santa Cruz is the winner on paper for me. None of these have a manual option but the DCT in the Cruz is at least livable. I can’t stand driving a slushbox. I could see lowering it with and putting on some street summer tires and using it as a daily driver that might actually be fun.

I guess we’re all imagining rockets at the back of the car. No reason they couldn’t be mounted underneath and forward. Probably more stable to be pulling the car than pushing it anyways. That solves that rip everything to shreds behind it problem. Still need to deal with the ear splitting roar they’ll make.

RX-8. I’ve owned two that went well over 100k miles before I sold them. Both did have fuel pumps that failed but never had a lick of engine trouble.

No early 1.6 car is worth anything to me. Weaker transmission and rear end with less power than everything that came after it. No thank you.

I blame the auto repair industry for brake repairs being put off. They are gouging customers. It’s a quick cheap repair they rake in cash on. I find most people have been brain washed into thinking brakes are this crazy hard thing that only professionals should tackle. They then put off the repair because the cost is…

It’s funny that this is where we are now with trucks. I remember in the 90's my friend in Coast Guard went on a tour down in the Caribbean. He came back with pictures of four door short bed pick ups from the islands. I was like woah! I’ve never seen anything like that! Now that is all we have. 25 years ago it was…

Not all. Modern pick up trucks are ridiculously tall.

I like the idea of a smaller truck. There is one feature of this truck that is part of modern truck design I wish wasn’t there- The name of the truck embossed in GIANT letters across the tailgate. What ever happened to subtle badging?