That’d probably be the answer. It was also probably a coin toss between there and Hoover, as they’d be the most famous hydroelectric plants in North America. But as far as optics go, Niagara is arguably the far better choice visually.

This:

I’m over 6' and have plenty of room. Well, up front anyway. Still, we’ve never had any complaints about room when hauling people around.

Maybe “too noisy?” Those composite MySky panels aren’t the greatest at keeping things quiet. I was talking to my wife on her drive home the other night and could hear the rain pelting on them. Granted, small price to pay for being able to pop them out on nice days. As for noise in general, I don’t have any experience…

And that’s kinda the great sin of this. . . In the hands of a talented game designer, this concept could’ve been absolutely hilarious and a blast to play. I mean, shit, the idea of creating a “Uncle Pennybags”-esque cartoon Lenin as the mascot alone is perfect. They just pawned this off to their intern.

Kinda surprised the Renegade wasn’t brought up by one of the staffers. Ticks all the boxes, easily in her price-range new while decently loaded out, respectably capable soft-road and has a wealth of personality.

Granted, I’m biased since I have a 2015 with “4x4" and a stick. in the fleet.

That was my first impression and there may still be an ugly tattoo under there, but I think someone took a handful of roadside muck and slapped it on her shoulder to stage the photo.

Yeah, I mean, I don’t wanna be that guy, but it totally looks like someone simply smeared some motor oil and dirt on her shoulder.

Not just doubting “because hurr,-durr, influencer” but I’ve got some experience in crashing motorcycles. I low-sided on taking a right hand turn from a dead stop once. (Back tire caught…

Disclaimer: I fuckin’ loved Chromehounds and for a sequel, I would probably buy into that Kickstarter the moment I knew about it.

That said, I think AC4/AC4A* were utterly brilliant because of their speed and how well the “tuning” system worked. My friends and I had a ball with those games and multiplayer. I forget…

I’ve got no dog in this fight as I’m completely unfamiliar with the work. . .

But I’ll call this a 50/50. Assuming these are our lead characters, I kinda prefer the male lead’s new look and the female lead’s older design. Still, not a huge fan of this sort of thing unless the old art style was just plain bad.

Whoops, mea culpa, I follow you now. Didn’t even click that we’re talking about a hypothetical Nissan-sanctioned US spec model and why we didn’t get one. If I had to guess the legit business logic as to why we never got the R32-34:

Nissan didn’t want two halo cars on their lots and chose the Z as it had a long history…

Not sure what you mean, as the grey market traded in both new and used vehicles at that time. Mercedes turned off the faucet for grey-market imports because of their new product, e.g. cars like Hoovie’s 500SL (see link below). It was specifically to prevent people from importing (brand-new) better spec’d euro models…

I’ve never, in forty years on this earth, and being part of the cohort that first truly learned of Godzilla through Gran Turismo, heard that story. We all knew that the blame lay squarely at the feet of Mercedes-Benz and their protectionist lobbying against the grey-market.

I dunno, revisionist opinion is much kinder to the H3 nowadays. If I came across a manual at the right price, I’d probably give it a long think.

I knew I shoulda scrolled down further this morning. Totally just made this same joke, “yuuuuuge” and all, five minutes ago. Here, have this:

I mean, look at it. It’s Yuuuuuuuge!

Hmm, I like the hatch on my hot-hatch a little racier but yeah, I’d totally go for that over an angry-robot-faced Civic. I still think the Corolla hatch, gods help me, nailed the look.  Too bad it’s weak in every area the Civic is strong.

It’s alright, man. He got himself godsmacked for his douche-dom.

The grey-market thing was Mercedes trying to protect its fledgling dealership network and control their brand image stateside. This is more like leaving a bag of flaming poop with “Off Road Use Only” scrawled on the side right on the NHTSA and EPA’s doorstep.

Exactly, this is 19060's technology here: suck, squeeze, bang, blow at it’s simplest. If you’ve worked on any classic car, you’d be at home here. I’d lay odds there’s plenty of documentation to work on this car, even if some of the bits may be hard to come by.

Otherwise, as I said, break out the welder and graft in a…

I don’t think I’ve owned a single car that didn’t have a plastic intake manifold. Hell, I can’t think of a single part (outside of the superchargers/turbos, of course) in any of the cars or bikes I’ve owned that wasn’t plastic on the intake side of the engine. Outside of the charge pipe on my current N55-powered E90,…