Yeah. The government should really just hold an open auction on the rarer cars or the ones in good condition so the legacy of the mini lives on.
The UK is STILL working on the cash for clunkers scheme? Damn, It was terrible but we just took it on the chin and got it over with. Here after they were traded had the oil drained, and replaced with sand, and ran until they wouldnt run no more. I watched two clean CJ7's, a 472 Cadillac, and a factory supercharged Toyota pickup all get that treatment. I heard about a 4.3 Chevy van that threw one its own connecting rods through the oil pan and kept going for almost 4 minutes. I also heard of a big block Ford that refused to die, they held it at wide open for all of 10 minutes with no oil in it and it just wouldnt die. Actually, I know a friend of mine worked at a Toyota dealer at the time, and I think my old green Jeep ended up with the windshield from a CJ7 that was supposed to die. ( And wasn't supposed to be touched) And he told me about a different Jeep, a Grand Cherokee with a 318 and it refused to die as well, the RPM would drop off suddenly, but it would pick back up and keep going, I think he said they had to put so much sand into it that it completely blocked the timing chain.
Scrappage schemes are of the devil. No really, I mean it. They waste perfectly good cars, they kill off the cheaper old models that are more affordable to the poor in favor of more complicated newer models that will take years to reach that point, and they provide a perfect arena for bureaucratic pettiness and rule-mongering to flaunt themselves. And, for some reason, maybe they don't know what they have, perhaps they're blinded by the payola, some people will inevitably throw rare, valuable, or desirable cars into the grinder just to get the discount.
They do it because they think new cars are better and it will improve the enviroment when it accualy does the complete opposite. hopefully my government doesn't think like that they probably would knowing the average age of our country's vehicle fleet.
Also. Dear Alaska State Troopers: What's with the sudden surge on Knik Goose Bay Road? Please reassign your traffic cops somewhere where their fee-grabbing antics will be more appreciated.
That's terrible. They could have just auctioned all the cars and made money off of it. The whole environmental conspiracy with cars is all political bullshit.
Not sure what kind of responses I'll get from this, but I figure it can't hurt to ask, What do we think about wheel spacers/adapters? I've been wanting to get some bigger tires on my Silver half ton Dodge, but almost all the tires I can find are wider, wide enough that they'll rub the 4 link arm, and I really don't want to get wider, aftermarket wheels. So, that leads me to wheel spacers, and those led me to adapters, specifically 5 lug to 8 lug adapters, since I have 3 sets of the same factory chrome wheels in 8 lug, and all the other wheels I have a 8 lug too. Besides, 8 lug beats 5 lug. I can get a set of 4 custom machined 2 piece billet adapters for $340. I'm really considering it.
I dislike spacers quite a bit, but I don't know enough about cars to say you really shouldn't use them. I just thought they were known for being very unsafe
You can be OK but it needs to be a quality piece and it's still another thing that can fail. I'd say it's not worth it.
Managed to get the old 1963 Rover 110 started for the first time in 5 years today, drives like a dream(For an old car ) Also had a sweet time drifting my MX5(Miata) at an abandoned track. Sadly these are the only vids my mates recorded, by the end of the day I managed to link the whole track up(Hard with 100hp hey).. But at least I blew a pair of brand new tires. To top it off, the actual pros saw us drifting as they went by to an event, turned around and come to have a play.
My favorite Honda is the NSX. Outside of the NSX, Hondas don't do it for me. Sure, they're nice and all, but I perfer Toyotas for my Japanese car. Or the Mazda MX-5, I love the MX-5.
Was driving on the highway earlier and a part of it had a ton of cops in it. I counted like 15 cars pulled over. I saw a Buick fly across three lanes right in front of me and cut in front of an unmarked Charger. That was really satisfying to see.
A simple Japanese wagon designed for function over form and reliability; I see little wrong here, aside from it being a bit boring.
I don't know why copanies do this? Basing your sedan into a stationwagon is just weird. There are these better handiling things called SUVs.
Wagons generally don't handle much differently than their sedan counterparts, whereas suv's generally are not performance machines. In the case of the Camry I cant say it will handle well at all, but its designed to be functional. Personally I would still drive that Camry wagon over most suv's nowadays, but that's a personal bias; most suv's in my mind are little more than raised wagons, bridging the gap between minivan and crossover.
