Buy a Genesis?  Howzabout NO.  I’d rather drive a Chevette.

Like you, I find pleasure in driving almost anything, but I go further and don’t drive anything new. I like old, light cars and trucks. Even my truck, an F100, only weighs 3200lbs!

As long as the “API donut” on the back of the bottle says “SJ”or higher (SK, SL, SM, SN) it really doesn’t matter what brand it is. It’ll do the job just fine.  Well, unless it’s regular Pennzoil in an air-cooled engine.

I change my BMW’s engine oil every 10K-12K miles.  Have a little over 300K miles on it, still purrs like a kitten.  The amazing thing is that it burns less oil now than it did when it did for the first 3 years.  3K mile oil changes are a waste of money with any modern oil, from my 30 years of wrenching experience.

Chuckleheads like those guys could prolly use a taste of irony.

This story made me happy and sad at the same time.  Happy because it’s nice to see the Eta get some love (it really is a _great_ engine for daily driving).  Sad because I own an ‘85 325e (in good unmolested condition) and I’d be heartbroken to see it wrecked.  These cars are absolutely tiny compared to the behemoths…

Aside from the name, there’s absolutely no reason to buy a Harley when one can buy an Indian instead, IMHO. The Polaris-built Indians are phenomenal bikes. I know of half a dozen who’ve made the switch and another half a dozen on the fence. That said, the newest Harleys appear to be decently built, tho.

That’ll do it.

SSR were CP-worthy from the start. Not only did they weigh about the same as a Chevy Tahoe of the same vintage, they had the chassis rigidity of an 80's t-top car without doors.  Even the engineers were on the pipe.

It’s like Jokey Smurf opened a shop and hired Roger Rabbit to do PR in Fargo

Nice. Well, I’ve never been a fan of the franchise (aside from it causing Cali cops to go after that fart tip/wings on FWD club) or Paul Walker. He always set off my “creep-dar” which is some weird Aspie power I have and has yet to prove me wrong. Well, I’d like to shit in his hat.

Congrats on replacing an overrated relatively torqueless focus of a mechanic-circle-jerk-session with an overrated torqueless wonderHonda that gets worse gas mileage than a Vette. Enjoy how quick it feels when VTEC kicks in yo, because offc it doesn’t have any power off of it. Interesting fact: a Civic Si and S2000 of…

It’s still a frickin island on the cusp of epic destruction, like one should expect from a country full of godless fecalphiliacs on the edge on the :Ring of Fire. Yeah, I predate pokemon and I’ve lived in Japan. Also, I don’t believe you. I’d trust Japanese storage like I’d trust Mexican upholsterers. It’s horseshit.

Hahahaaa, this is hilarious. Ya know, I clicked on this like “eff yeww batch! I aint buying no new car, I’m gunna keep rockin my ‘85 car and my ‘63 truck and you can stick yer new car right up where your polished terd 10-year warranty came from you Hyundai-driving millenial sh...oh noes snakes!”

So...you don’t factor in a few years worth of storage cost - in Japan, where land is expensive - into the cost of buying a JDM car now vs the future?

To a point, you’re right. I don’t feel that hp-to-weight has changed a whole lot for the average car tho. Sure, most modern cars are considerably quicker and faster than the soul-sucking junk we had in the ‘80's, but there are still a lot of modern cars that are in the same ~9 second 0-60 class as old shit was, even…

Mine was a ‘78 Mercedes 240D. IIRC, it had 62HP when new, by the time I got it, it had almost 300K miles on it. A few horses were def roadkill! Only car I ever lost a race to a transit bus to.

Oh, I’m definitely American. My 1st 2 cars weren’t (‘78 Merc 240D, ‘69 Beetle). It would surprise you how many American cars were underpowered back then tho, too. Heck, the base model Mustang from 1980 to 1993! had less than 100hp. The 1993 4-banger Mustang barely made 90hp. My buddy’s mom had one, a convertible with…

Exactly. My first two cars in the 1980s didn’t amount to having 200hp combined. It wasn’t until my 4th car that I got something with over 100hp stock. Taught me to value each horse, tellyawhat lol

I’m glad they caught the dirtbags. Back in the ‘90's, I was a dirtbag street racer. Luckily never hurt anyone or myself. I did manage to scare the need for speed right outta me tho, heh. Now I drive an automatic Eta, go figure.