I’d suspect customs is on to that game. A pile of drive-train parts labelled “tractor parts” would probably probably catch less attention, pass most casual review, and I’m not paying for a bunch of dead weight. Ship the other stuff in a different crate; interior/exterior trim, seats, A/V, lighting, wiring and modules…

Easier, true, yet more felonious.

Another person and I were talking about what to do in these situations in another thread. Requires a bit of fuck-it-money but buy one of those German market Touregs, strip it to the screws and send all the good bits home in a crate. Scrap the chassis. Buy the first cheapest non-runner clean US-titled Toureg with a…

This going to be interesting. There’s a ton of companies popping out E9x fascias patterned after newer iterations of BMW. They’re gonna work in reverse this time, producing G80/2 compatible fascias based on the older cars.

And that was more or less my thought. You could easily get a clean, far lower mileage example of a comparably-equipped E9x for the same money.  The pricing on this clapped-out shit-trap is delusional.

I’ve got an E90 335i xDrive with a manual. Damned if I’ll be getting rid of that any time soon.

It’s strange how they constantly fuck this one crucial aspect up every damn time. If it’s not forcing you to take the lesser engine* than you’re locked out of the rest of the good option packages. I was afraid for the Bronco when I heard you can only get the turbo-four with three pedals, and then out right pissed…

I know, I waffle back and forth on that, too. The Versys-X or KTM 390 ADV have solid road manners, which is valuable to me as even though I live on the far-edge of the Philly ‘burbs, it’s still a solid half-hour to an hour ride to really get out there. That said, once I get out there I want something almost unkillable …

“Don’t fuck with the formula” as Mike Love apocryphally said. I actually currently ride the EX250's whipper-snapper over-achieving grandkid, a 2019 Ninja 400. You can do a lot under the skin without diluting the formula.

I’ve no doubt it’ll be a “good” car. Still, a warmed-over Z car that I could play 2010's car BINGO…

Except those two Mustangs barely share screws and fasteners. Even though you can almost perform the Folgers Crystals challenge with the Zeta and Alpha Camaros, they’re still completely different cars. In the case of the Z, it’s the notion that this is yet another iteration of what is now an eighteen year old platform.…

Now that is cool, but I have a pretty firm no-front-drum rule. Aft is fine, but I want bite up front. And as someone who has managed to Superman himself, it’s daaaaaamn hard to bring up a tail with modern ABS, which I would call a bare-minimum necessity of anything plated and insured.

I dunno, well, hey, let’s ask MotorTrend, who asked Nissan:

Nice! Also, sound logic. Doooo eeeeeettt!

That’s part of why I’m eyeing up adding a CBR650R or the Svartpilen 701: need something a hair bigger for two-up riding, but that’d only be around the Philly area* so I just need (well, want) a little more power to make it viable. I’d rather the 701, I think, but the CBR’s been…

If I lived in the city proper, I’d totally pick up a Vespa to scoot around on.

The light-to-middleweight segment is exploding right now, as are ADVs. The “beginner” category basically all bumped up to around 300-400cc’s and focused on the sport, naked and ADV markets. Kawasaki and KTM arguably have the most compelling…

Take a look at the Kawi 400 twins: as I mentioned in another post, I’ve a Ninja and my wife has the Z. At 6'3'-ish, I’m comfy on both bikes. The Z’s obviously a little more. . . spacious. I don’t care if I look like a Russian dancing bear on the tiny bicycle as long as that holds true.  Honestly, there’s part of me…

Conceptually, yes, economically, no.

That bike is one solid package. I keep holding out a small hope that Kawi’s gonna update the Versys-X to the 400cc P-twin soon. I’ve got the Ninja and my wife has the Z, so it’d feel appropriate to stay in-platform.

But, of course, I could get a decent KLR650 and farkle the ever-lovin’ hell out of it. If I’m getting an…

If I want a euro-branded Indian-manufactured bike, I’m hunting down a ‘pilen.  That said, I’d consider a 500cc version of this.

If he brought a friend, would he be the smoking bloke ‘avin a toke with a jamoke in the token bespoke woke Moke?

I had forgotten. I hit up Wiki to see what the most recent entry I could acquire is and apparently there’s a straight-up Wangan Mindnight game on the PS3 that’s considered part of the series!