Nice, I rather like those Charades, would be nice to have one that goes fast And by Swift, I don't suppose you mean one of these? Tell him his dreaming, then offer him $200 and a potato. From the sound of it, not worth 3K. You could probs find a much tidier example for similar money.
Yes, it was one of those. I found a pic of it. It has the 1.3L injected engine and makes 100hp at 6500rpm. I couldn't stop smiling when he took me for a spin in it. Can easily spin the wheels in first from a roll in the wet and would probably spin em in second. Even has air con and power windows. Excel makes about 100hp to the engine from factory but it weighs about 930kg in stock spec, where the swifts are only about 800 and rev a ton more.
a friend of mine had the gti of them and they were really fast too he also striped it out so it didnt have any problem moving the car
On the extra expensive side of things, there is this. On the cheap side... Also, are those considered as "pop-up headlights" ?
Ford... You release the mustang in the UK, expecting it not to be successful enough that Euro ncap would crash test it. As such you decide not to fit safety equipment to the EU/UK model (that is standard on US model) in order to cut costs. This is including basic stuff like rear seatbelt pre-tensioners (or rear seatbelt load limiters), and airbags that bottom out in a collision. However the car sells well, as such euro ncap decided to test it and you got slapped with a 2/5 star euro ncap rating, despite the US version testing well. Now that you have bee caught with your pants down shafting your customers you have launched a new revised version (not a new model though, just a new revision of the existing model), and you still haven't even put pre-tensioners or load limiters on the rear seatbelts. and as such it still only gets 3/5 stars... This isn't even complex stuff, its simply a case of swapping out the rear seatbelt systems for some (slightly) more advanced ones (and that is only advanced by 1981 standards when they were first introduced).
Ford, for as much as I want to like some of their cars, has a long history of just plain not caring about their customers, going all the way back to the Pinto, through the Tempo, the Exploder rollovers (which were Ford's fault, no matter how much they tried to blame Firestone), and now this. Not to mention defects which were simply annoying, like the "biodegradable" automatics in the 90s and the '99 Cobra's -40hp exhaust defect that they fixed only grudgingly and only after slapping a restraining order on the guy who blew the whistle. There are some good, talented people working at Ford, but it seems the upper leadership tends toward greed without any consideration for anyone but themselves.
I just watched a report about street racing in munich and how bad they are. I have to say the biggest problem is that we dont have a racetrack or dragstrip the closest race track is the nürburgring wich is several hundret kilometers away so they should do something build atleast a dragstrip or something here then most people would stop doing stuff like that. It also worked in japan and the usa so why shouldnt it work here?
There is the hockenheim ring as well, which is an little bit closer to Munich (still 340km :/) , but i'm not sure if it's open for everyone or just racing events.
Tell me what you guys think of this clip. I don't know what was going on with the audio, but the guy in the minivan yelled at me that the other person had the right of way. That is true, but I didn't know that because I thought she was going straight. I probably could have stopped once I saw that she was turning but then I would have had a big ass trailer stopped in the middle of a busy highway. I also could have kept my cool a bit more and not yelled out the window but I was sick, tired and way too hot so it didn't take much to tick me off.
I don't really blame you. You both started moving at pretty much the same time and the vw didn't have its signal on. Minor inconvenience for them to have to slow down while you pass. Boohoo. I don't think I would have honked at them though. Probly what ticked the minvan driver off. I understand it was to warn the other driver, but it kinda made you look like you thought you were entitled to the right of way in the other peoples' eyes. Understandable why you did though.
You know, decided to go out and check, my 11 year old Mustang has pretensioners in the rear. Ford, I love ya, but what the actual fuck? This is 6.4L PowerStroke levels of fail.
Yeah I definitely overreacted and I probably looked like an ass, but like I said long, hot day plus sick made my temper pretty short. And I think that was a Dodge Dart not a VW, it had a big hole in the bumper too so they probably aren't the most focused driver. I thought the 6.0 was the worst of the bunch. Not that the 6.4 has a great reputation, but I've heard less about it than the 6.0.
6.4? Remember, the 6.4 was supposed to be the "fixed" version of the 6.0. Which while it did address the cylinder head bolts, cooling problems, and most of the electrical issues, had a whole new fleet of issues unique to it, like the weak oil pumps, fueling problems, and exhaust / turbo problems. Then again, I'd happily take a stock 6.0 over a 4.6/5.4/6.8 any day. Or the 6.2 or new 302 for that matter. It's unfortunate, I really like the Super Duty trucks, but the 7.3 is basically the only tolerable engine that could be had in them. I've rode in and driven a couple of 6.7's, and they really impressed me on the power front, I'm hesitant to "like" them, until I've seen them get some proper age. In short, I have a bitter dislike for 95% of Ford products newer than 1992.
You're right. I didn't really take note of it while I was watching the video and I tried to recall what kinda car it was while writing my post. But at the end of the day, there's no excuse for mistaking a dodge dart for a vw golf. I'm sorry everyone.
Oh, that's because Ford sold almost zero 6.4L PowerStrokes. Where as with proper maintenance and being left alone (so stock), the 6.0 can be a remarkably reliable and long lived engine. Yes, they had head bolt problems and were prone to eating head gaskets, it's NOTHING compared to the 6.4. The 6.4L PowerStroke was a revised 6.0, except it left out the whole "revision" part of the deal. It was the sole reason that Ford cut ties with Navistar and went off to create the fantastic 6.7 PowerStroke. The only thing Navistar was able to fix going from the 6.0 to the 6.4 were the head bolts stretching. That's it. They were prone to head gasket failure to an even greater and more destructive degree, piston ring failure, turbo failure, diesel mixing with the engine oil, the whole kit and caboodle. If you can think of a failure to have, the 6.4L PowerStroke had it. It was the pinnacle, the coup de grace, the absolute textbook definition of a fucking terrible engine. The 7.3 could go a million miles, the 6.0 could make 1,000HP, and the 6.7 brought reliability and 925 lb-ft of torque to the party. The 6.4 makes one hell of a boat anchor.
