A cupholder? In your car? Luxury. Pure luxury.

Wow, awesome. Thanks for the info, consider my dream project amended! I’ve heard great things about the 1UZ (the VVTI especially), glad you’re enjoying the swap.

Is the AR-5 as nice in terms of shift feel as the W58, though? I have a recurring daydream where I swap a 1UZ and manual transmission into a Volvo 240 wagon for a fun and weirdly practical daily driver (the 1UZ is about as indestructible as the original B230F, gets marginally better MPG while having triple the power,…

Fair enough. What racing games would you recommend that do have decent physics, then?

Underground 2 was actually a pretty solid enthusiast’s game, all SUVs and spinning rims aside. The tuning setup let you adjust the point where your turbo kicked in, the stiffness of shocks, springs, and sways, and even let you tune the ECU and gearbox ratios. No NFS game since Porsche Unleashed has offered tuning that…

White is a very unflattering colour for the 240, especially in the base (chrome-less) trim. It looks much better in DL guise:

Try running it with nGlide and the 3.5 Patch! In addition to fixing some compatibility bugs, nGlide also lets you run the menus at whatever resolution you set instead of having them stuck at an archaic 640x480. You may or may not have an issue with the cars being stuck at the lowest texture setting due to a weird bug…

nGlide is my wrapper of choice, it’s one of the few that’s actively developed and supports almost every 3dfx-enabled game I can think of. Here’s a guide for setting it up to work with Windows 7/8, it ran fine apart from some audio issues when I tried it a year or two ago but it looks like the article offers a solution…

Magnificent game. Still looks pretty good if you play it with a Glide Wrapper (3DFX card emulator). The Italdesign Cala, Ford GT90, Isdera Commendatore 112i, and other concept cars were really fun to drive.

Automatic, FWD, and nowhere near as reliable or easy to work on. Also lacks the classic charm of the 142. Not a bad price for what it is if it’s been well maintained (it seems to have been judging from the description), but I’d still take the 142 any day.

My definition is basically, if someone goes out of their way to diverge from the norm for the sake of appearance, not for enjoyment, fulfillment, personal ideals, or anything else, then they are a hipster.

An added "DANGER TO MANIFOLD" warning light and floorboards that pop out inexplicably at high speeds would be amazing if included.

If I remember correctly from my automotive anime/manga obsession in freshman year (needed something to fill the void left by unable to have a car while in res), the engine in the Devil Z is an L28 swapped from a 280z bored out to 3 litres with a twin-turbo setup.

The later (1985-1993) N/A Volvo 240s pump out 116 horsepower in stock form, with a relatively easy increase to 165 hp with a junkyard turbo swap from a 740/940. My engine is fully stock, so while it has no trouble keeping up with traffic or passing safely on the highway, it would still lose to pretty much anything…

Ha! I ended up reaching that same decision when searching for my second car, W123 or 240. Ended up with a beautifully maintained, single-owner (since 1988!) blue Volvo 240 Wagon, with a 5-speed for $800 and have not been disappointed. Be warned that even with a stick they are far from fast, but that'll be true of the…

European-spec Mercedes W123, W124, and W210 wagons? All available with stick outside of North America, all available with a diesel engine, all available in brown, and all RWD:

Am I the only person that really loves the look of the SS? It's understated, sure, but the styling cues are enough to let on that it may be a bit more than meets the eye. I much prefer its look over the over-the-top aggressive styling of the Camaro and Corvette, and I definitely don't understand how people are saying…

Oh wow. I'm looking up stick-shift Mercedes wagons up on mobile.de right now and I am fully jealous. A lot of the W124 wagons that look to be in fantastic shape for less than 1000$ CAD, which is what would buy you a lightly-rusted 10 year old Civic in my part of the world (Atlantic Canada). If I had the room or…

An endless supply of cheap parts, a simple and honest utilitarian aesthetic, a huge online community, and the availability of a third pedal without the need for a messy swap?

According to the EPA's "Greenhouse Gas Emissions for Electric and Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles" calculator, a 2014 Tesla Model S with the 85 kW-hr battery emits a nationwide average of 250 grams of CO2 per mile, as compared to the national average of 480g/mile for the average new vehicle, so overall it produces…