I prefer the Bagger 288, what with its seething wrath and urge for blood.

Have a friend who served on subs. If I recall the terminology correctly, you do actually “drive the boat.”

Golf clap for the Angry Marine.

You forget the power of Winga-Dinga, which I’m reasonably certain explains this car’s existence.

This. Ford has to warranty this thing for up to whatever length they sell the extensions to. It’s in their own interest to make sure that engine can handle a comfortable safety margin over 22psi.

Bob’s tuner shop might cut you a deal on labor when your motor pukes up its guts. Unless it’s a motor known for being…

I know, right?  I was really hoping for a “marmaluke” in there, but no dice.

If I had to guess, it’s because it was already bolted to the 3.8 as it’s the (same model of) transmission Grand National came from the factory with. Which is strange, as if you’re going this far into building a mutant, why wouldn’t you go with a manual?

Also, a T-Type or GN died for this thing.

There’s nothing here that makes sense, so. . .

Last BMWs I drove before this were friends E30s, E36 and E39s.

Steering heft is a personal preference. I’ve driven pretty much all the extremes: I learned to drive on a Caprice Classic (wagon!) with its over-boosted boat tiller, to my friend’s “steer-with-a-pinky-finger” Caddy to various classics without power…

Interesting. I’ve got an E90 335i xDrive. Still, the E9x 328i was available with xDrive and a stick almost across the board, which I presumed carried over to the F30. Frustrating that they’d drop it from the volume tier: I loathe manufacturers paywalling the manual as much as I hate them restricting it to decontented…

Speaking from experience. . . if you need/want AWD but don’t want a Subie, the CPO 3 Series is the probably way to go. Especially as you could still get the manual with xDrive on all trims, IIRC. Rarer than hen’s teeth, so if you find a good one, show up ready to buy.

Otherwise, HonderHonderHonder. Just black out the…

Have they fixed up the Switch version yet? I know there were some issues compared to the other releases. . . I’d prefer to buy it there but I may have to just get the PC release when I’m through some more of my backlog.

Not much of a hill to die on.  The early C3's were great-looking cars.

If you’re shelving the original parts rather than dropping them in the dumpster behind your neighborhood McDonald’s, it’s fine. This car’s about as hard to rebuild as a pile of LEGO bricks. Besides, unless it’s a pre-smog car, no one really cares about what you do to a C3.

As I’ve said before. . . The Fast and the Furious solely explains the market for the MkIV TT. I could get a fairly mint FD RX-7 and a decent 300ZX TT for the price of a clean Supra. The current demand for that car is completely irrational, seeing as by the mid nineties Toyota couldn’t give them away. Again, look at…

True but with the math being what it is, mass being halved and velocity squared, your rate of return from a modest bump in velocity would negate loss of mass very easily. Even scaled down without the speed bump, a “bolt from the blue” that’s virtually unstoppable but still hits with the force of a couple of tons of…

Mostly a jest, as the X-37B’s kind of a weird mystery widget and it was somehow the first thing to spring to mind. Kinda like the “insert laser here” space in the F-35A and C’s airframe. . . But yes, it’s way too small for the original 20-foot tungsten phone-pole concept. I could see someone cramming a more modestly…

Either that or his big mouth might’ve told everyone what our little mystery space plane drone toy’s really up to/about. I can’t imagine that some clever bastard couldn’t find a way to scale down the “Rods From Gods” concept into a package that’d stuff in that payload bay. And goober’s definitely given away a few of…