I’m not even going to front. “In” does a lot of heavy lifting in this case. Colloquially, in this context, it’s essentially a contraction of “translated INto”. There’s nary a single person here in ‘Murrica that would not read that line and understand that “viggen” = “thunderbolt” in another language, which they’d…

Ah, the magic ambiguity of the English language, where both statements are correct.

Curiously, the only plastic that falls apart in these things seems to be located in the engine bay. My 335 is over a decade old, pushing 100,000 miles and the interior shows minimal signs of wear and age. While GM’s not exactly known for quality interiors, the Silverado we just picked up is a model year newer, with…

Especially now that they’re all bespoke and only used for a handful of model years.  Ask anyone with an XLR what their worst fear is. . .

I thought about this for a hot second as the Gladiator has grown on me, but I hate the idea of min-maxing to my needs after trying all kinds of Enron accounting regarding towing with a manual Renegade. . . I’ve got Armored Core 6 for that shiz. We ultimately bought a used 2500 Silverado because the numbers are what…

Sooooooo. . . the better three-quarters and I recently bought a used 2500HD Silveraydo as a tertiary vehicle. The logic was if we ran out of truck to do the trucky things we required of it, we need a fookin’ professional. Built in hubris check. For a truck, it drives like a dream. This clown had a thousand less trucks…

And that’s the thing. The only people interested in this car are new-to-brand SAAB enthusiasts or the worst remaining brand snobs. . . And if they can be honest with themselves, they can find more interesting European toys, some with stick, from the same money if not less. For example, I don’t trust this to have…

Hah, I totally forgot they had said that.

I’ve enjoyed my time spent with the game, don’t get me wrong. . . .

. . . but I’ll be damned if TOTK doesn’t feel like a just a massive BOTW DLC that just was spun out into a stand alone product.

Assuming the numbers I found were correct, Mazda’s managed to justify it for the MX-5 on a bespoke platform with sub-10K per annum sales. The BR-Z86 numbers are worse than the GTI/R. This “issue” of VAG’s could probably be fixed in the software. It’s all a money issue: namely the investors want more and killing the…

That was kinda my same thought. Granted, not like I have any experience with a straight-8 but I imagine it’s a helluva lot smoother than a four-banger and, barring designing an engine from scratch, an inline-6 would’ve gone a long way towards replicating the experience of the original car. Seems a weird oversight, as…

Exactly. I was looking for a daily driver, and the common consensus is the N55 is the more reliable of the two, although they’re not exactly free from all the N54 issues. Besides the aforementioned HPFP, I’ve never heard of an engine that could ingest the serpentine belt because of a weepy oil gasket until I bought…

That’s the weird part. The rust is on the driver-side wheel well.

This one’s a no from me. You could do worse, but you could do a lot better.

I live in Pennsylvania:  all of them.

I worked there a hot minute back in the day when I was mainly living off contract gigs after the dot-com implosion. Unless things have changed (and they may have given the general worker shortage), they followed the standard union progression. You had to start out as a part-timer and get a degree of time-served and…

It’s always been crap: I lived through the great front tie-rod end link shortage of the late aughts. I miss the car but I imagine finding most parts is hell now.

Let’s be honest: the only reason anyone in North America gives a shit about the Skyline GT-R (that isn’t a hardcore NISMO-fanboy) is Gran Turismo, and anyone who sells them at the current hilariously inflated rates owes Polyphony Digital a cut of that sale.

Also, Nissan was trying to take aim at the Germans (and their…

One of the people in my office building has the ‘vert. Maybe it’s just grown on me over time but they’re better looking cars than all the hate would make one believe. (Then again, I had an ‘04 GTO and think the hurr-durr-fat-Cavalier people must be blind.) Ironically, this was posted in an article about the 6 here: I…

True story. It’s a killer for 75% of the population as a second/third vehicle.

I’d love a Maverick because it would tow more than our (stick) Renegade. The problem is for the price of the Tremor package, find a reason I shouldn’t stretch for a Ranger which would allow us to haul much bigger trailers without the…