They missed the best one.

Wait, $3k in repair costs / $12k in total car costs is bankruptcy? If it’s a regular stream of $3k repair bills then sure. But this just seems like a one-time bundle of deferred maintenance that needs to be done on any older European car bought from a stranger.

L.A., where the cars are metal and real, but the people are plastic and fake.

One of these days I’m just gonna buy a Trabi and my husband is gonna go into the garage and see I have a hopeless little commie shitcan next to my pretty little Corvette and absolutely go ballistic. I’ve asked a million times if I can have one and the answer is always no because I have two cars already. A girl can…

Detroit Diesel and Freighliner are both owned by Mercedes and the DD15 is a Merc design, a DD design or a bit of both depending on who’s telling you.

Instead of Serenity Now, them Canucks just channel all their innate cussing to one trucker.

He probably has some used car salesman in him.

Generally people who buy a diesel are loyal to diesels. Of course there are few choices - unless you want to think outside the box and get a massive Ford F350 or Dodge with cummins.

Yup - there’s about 4000 of them over here according to government records:
https://www.howmanyleft.co.uk/?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=ford+mustang

Europeans can get the GT 350. Just not at the dealer. There’s no 25 year import ban.

You’re correct that the V8s don’t have a balance shaft. But the M273 V8 has an idler gear the same place that the balance shaft gear would be on an M272 which is prone to the same wearing problem, and will throw the same codes. But in most cases, the engine doesn’t need to be pulled to replace the idler gear, like…

It wouldn’t be fun - promise. Outside of the major roads, the Mustang is too wide for the average British street and we’re policed with speed cameras everywhere. In the States, it’s a normal car - it’s an everyman’s car. In the UK it would be an enthusiast’s second car that came out in the summer for shows.

To you good folks in the States, the Mustang can be had as an entry level car up to road-melting goodness. You can buy the base convertible version for your college-age daughter or, once you’ve ditched that no-good cheating husband, you can use the settlement to buy a Shelby and go full-on Thelma and Louise. Or track…

Payback for that bullshit diet-version E36 M3 we got.

Learn how to control oversteer.

The first generation was a beautiful wedge that Bertone themselves would have been proud of. Clean, dramatic lines and proportions that call to mind the Lancia Stratos or the X1/9. One of the most striking production cars ever to go mainstream.

There’s also the conspiracy theory that the Japanese abducted her ... for some reason... 2 years before WWII in Europe, 4 years before we entered it, and at a time when we were still at least talking to each other diplomatically. Then, as you would do with a high profile hostage, they kept totally quiet about it and…

Word. On his two round-the-world flights, Wiley Post pretty much avoided the Pacific altogether and flew from Russia to Alaska.