Agreed. Seems like a lot of money for a 19 y.o.’s car.

Honestly it should not have an electric starter. My first car had one and I literally do not know how to start a car with a manual crank starter. I’m also a terrible farrier, should come across a horse needing a fresh pair of shoes.

I learned to drive on a manual. It wasn’t too hard because I had the concept down growing up with dirt bikes and grandparents that had farm tractors and such. It is harder to find a manual as the years go by.

Miata

Typically it would have airbrakes - the brake pedal has a needle valve to regulate air pressure to the brake chambers. If the air lines to or from that valve were severed then only the parking brakes would be applied automatically. My guess is only the rearmost axle has parking brakes. No one is planning to have the…

Have you driven one? the ZL1 1LE has pretty quick times at both the Nurburgring and the VIR Lightning Lap that Car and Driver uses as a benchmark. You don’t rip a 2:45 lap on that course without having good grip and handling.

Shhhh! If them boys could read they would get super pissed at this. 

Thats a really cool project, but that solar setup in janky.  

You do a lot of missing the forest through the trees I guess?

But Subaru’s Eye Sight - or any other similar tech - isn’t even remotely analogous to ABS brakes or stability control. They are in entirely different realms in terms of cost and complexity. ABS systems are really simple, not a surprise given that they’ve existed since the 1960s and on virtually every car since the…

This is definitely an interesting fact, and I think it exposes an interesting conundrum. Cars on the road now that are, say, 5 to 10 years old, are likely the best built most reliable cars on the road because they were built before the massive incorporation of extensive electronic/sensor/cpu monitored and driven…

Considering the age of a car on the road today is older than it’s ever been, I’m going to call B.S. on this. Cars today last longer than ever. The average car on the road in the U.S. today is over 12 years old.

The era of some stripper base model car is definitely over. I’ve had to do four trips to San Diego over the last three months and each time I rent a car. I’ve gotten all kinds of things, from a 2021 Nissan Altima to a Chevy Malibu to a Subaru Forester. Across the board, they all had more “tech features” and nonsense…

You’ve gotten a lot of crap on this thread, as you probably expected. Just wanted you to know, you’re not alone. For the past 4 years, I’ve dedicated a large amount of time, effort, and resources into setting up the skills and back-end required to run an in-perpetuity fleet of older cars. Aka, it’s a shop that knows…

I would argue that by 2027 “buying” a car will effectively be moot. We are already moving - rapidly - towards subscription car services and pay-to-play features. This will be tested for a year or two to see how willing we are to play (very, if I had to guess) and then will be expanded. To me, the technology in cars has…

It’s not out of the realm of possibility that people may not be SUPER excited about expensive, intrusive, and possibly finicky mandated technology.

Nope.

I think so. I see the current Eclipse-Cross and it’s just a distorted ghost of the 1st and 2nd Gen Eclipse.

Does all of Mitsubishi count?

This is what im talkin boot