You sure picked a desolate highway to try your Bug! Reminds me of a time some years ago I am with my car club and my (then) 250,000 mile Mercedes 300E picks Highway 88 to have transmission trouble.

The original 2002 was great because it was a simple design that worked. BMW doesn’t seem to understand that. The “hommage” probably has a liquid-cooled alternator, too (at $900 to replace)

Equally plausible is that the mechanic started the lug nuts then forgot to tighten them. i think this is more likely than overtorquing them with an impy as the likelihood that all 4 would fall off would be slim.

Used to know a man who was a master mechanic and the first service mgr of what became a very large Mercedes-Benz dealer. He said something that always stuck with me about mileage claims.

One of the easy way you tell a 67 Camaro from a ‘68 no batwings

My first car - a 1967 Camaro - had a factory bench seat and individual backs. Still 4 on the floor. Guess it was option AL4. I read that they made about 6,000 of these. Wish I still had the car.

They start go cars at 6 months these days - they are genetically grown in Burbank, CA

Looks like a Lotus 7/Caterham run amuck

If you are going nuts I’ll take an Ariel Atom

This one took the cake: “Buyer - I might be able to do $11,500...can you finance me?”

I don’t know where to start on that. When I have bought a used car I look at the kbb and prices in various venues to get an idea of what the car is worth.

My Dad was getting a new Lexus and the dealer told him that he would probably…

People don’t realize that differentials and transmissions/transaxles have a vent at the top to allow for pressure differentiation - get into water over either and unless changed quickly you have just ruined your transmission or differential

Of course if the water sinks up to the air cleaner you ruin the engine but by…

Yes, I would agree with you. One of the reasons GM formed this partnership with Toyota was to get away from the day-to-day running of this Fremont plant.

It became NUMI after GM found the place almost unmanageable. The stories the Tesla guide was saying were almost unbelievable.

They probably said the same of the Japanese in the late 60s and early 70s. I have been to the Tesla Factory and it is nothing less than a complete transformation from the old GM days. The factory was the worst in the GM system, with drug sales and prostitutes in the building. It was the worst for quality control in…

Entertaining video - enjoyed the lake - but sheesh, we are watching for nearly 10 minutes and he just shows the last few seconds of an auto rotation???????

Most of those I have known of - one thing an old mechanic taught me was he use of prybars - speaking of leverage - you should have a good set of 3 or 4. From aligning motor mounts to....

Sounds like he shouldn’t have taken the Top Gear job. “If the heat’s too hot, get out of the kitchen” — Harry S. Truman

About like my MB 300E when a Honda rear ended it years ago. The front end of the onda was damaged although not as badly as this Fiat, and the Merc had a small dent under the trunk.

You forgot the most important thing - about $10,000 (slightly used) to $15,000-$20,000 (new) :-) With the electronics? Don’t know but I think in the hot rod culture they are making generic ECUs - whether those would interface with the Porsche engine can’t say.

Thanks to VW what had been essentially an honor system with the car manufacturers for certification is now over.

Nobody agreed on the parameters. Unless you can stomach a $10,000 (and up) major service tab, I’d spring for a 1990s Acura NSX.