I have toured the factory - they are using only about 20% of this massive old GM facility - all new state of the art robotics. In the middle are a group of about 50 desks - right on the factory floor - including one for Musk. They are there to immediately see any problems in production and solve them - no layers of…
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Well, my little MR2 stopped shifting...all of a sudden. First thing I check was the master cylinder - it was moving the release fork on the transaxle as it should.
Your sister has a strange keychain - what is that - a camel?
Road & Track had a good interview with Hass - methodical and humble as to entering F1.
With a 240D you should have a manual transmission. With the 300D, the 5th cylinder was at the time an automotive revolution and typical, pioneered by Mercedes. That gave enough extra torque to make the automatic a viable option.
Many years ago, the then-CEO of Daimler-Benz was asked what his favorite Mercedes was. One would expect him to say a 300SL, 540K, 300 Adenauer....but he said the W123 240D.
I guess not since it is similar to so much of the junk on YouTube
That “aging wheels” video is too painful to watch. By 30 seconds I had had enough.
The cams on that Carerra endinkg (the original 50s) were supposed to be a bear to adjust. Wrote an article on a local sports car guru from the late 50s and it took him a week to adjust the cams on this engine.
In the late 50s with BMW near bankruptcy Daimler had the chance to buy them too.
If he original composer thought he had a case, on’t you think he would have sued?
Seems no different from a windshield on a LeMans prototype
Have an MB meet tomorrow - First Sunday Drive. Being that the weather prediction is a monsoon with gale force winds I am having doubts as to the participation. But I will provide a picture.
The head of Mazda feels the same way. Interview in the business magazine Forbes recently:
Wonder what The Stig feels about all this. Show isn’t even a success yet and infighting already.
I saw one on the road a few months ago and between the shape and the color I could swear it was a baby Ferrari...it looked that good.
Beautiful cars but I can’t see paying $1 million for one. If I have trouble getting parts for my 86 MR2 I can imagine what it is for a 2000GT owner.
At Monterey in 2008 they must have had virtually every 2000GT ever made in the parkinkg lot.
Plus it has a high center of gravity with the cement making tipping very likely
I didn’t buy the car, but delivered a friend;s 1983 MB 380SL from CA to TX.
While I don’t care for the R107 in the states, big cow-catcher bumpers, the Euro version was lower, had bumpers that were more integral with the car (see a 72 or 73 US SL) - and the engine - which anemic in the US had to have a good 30-50 more…