It’s not the car that bothers me. It’s the owners. Thunderbird people are strangely tribal.

Soon to be answered by me: How does LSD and snow tires stack up against 8-12” of lake effect snow?

No(ish). It says mopar on EVERYTHING.

Because it is cheaper than the Miata when the Fiat dealer immediately starts bargaining with you to get it off their lot. 

Mr2. I feel like the possibility is there for another Toyota / Subaru collaboration.

By this test, every Jeep or pickup truck with decently short gearing would be moderately quick. No. Just no.

The feed mechanism IS the same as the little Lincoln’s. And they both break with alarming frequency. When this fails, don’t get one with the same plastic mech, and think it’s an upgrade. Learn from my mistakes, and go straight to the “big” 110v Lincoln or similar with a metal feed mechanism. 

In an e46 BMW 325xi or 330xi, traction control cannot be fully disabled by default. Torque vectoring still interferes via the brakes, even with DSC off.

Once upon a time I had a trusty rusty crappy awesome 1989 dodge d250. It was a weird ass truck that was half way between a half ton and three-quarter ton, with an 8-lug Chrysler 9.25” axle instead of a dana 60, and some other quirks.

I thought it would be a good idea to blast through a 5 ft tall snow pile in the middle of the work parking lot one day.

Yeah. Pretty sure I’d toss one of those crappy aluminum welding rods on a a borrowed 70 year old arc welder, blast a big funky booger on there, and go to town.

Inconvenient, sure. But I’m glad to see he got over it.

I drive a 1.6 miata. I know the feeling well.

Well so is a Jeep Wrangler in general, so it’s only fitting.

Well, with AMC at the helm, you could get a 304 in a CJ. My guess is that since the 4.0 HO was only slightly behind the 318 in terms of power output, it wouldn’t have really been an “upgrade”. It would have just made cool noises. Fast forward to 2007 when the 4.0 left the picture, and you still have a decently capable…

Thanks! We are glad to report that our rookie stayed squeaky clean all weekend too.

I was behind it in the pigpen mirage when it did this! Code brown!

Right.

Don’t forget the throw-out bearing. Chalk one up for me on the side of clutch out in neutral while stopped.

See the Ford Ranger “Edge” for the FoMoCo version.