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CJinSD

Technology and authoritarian politics are not interchangeable.

CJinSD

Your experience with the W212 is quite different from my friend's experience with her 2014 or 2015 E350 4-matic. Hers has relatively low mileage; as in less than 40,000 and possibly still less than 30,000 miles. She's experienced a number of gremlins, which the dealer responded to by suggesting that it should be expected of a car of that age...three years ago. Why hadn't she turned it in for a new one? Last time I talked to her, a seam had split on the garaged car's MB-Tex driver's seat. I helped her get rid of her old W123 300D Turbodiesel and W124 300D 2.5 Turbodiesel a couple of years ago, and I don't think either of them had split seat seams.

CJinSD · ‎20-04-2022

I'm glad someone valued it enough to prevent it from ending up as a sleek golf cart.

CJinSD · ‎14-04-2022

Are you proclaiming that you're ignorant that the Bugatti's W16 is built of the same building blocks as various VW VR4s, W8s and W12s? Do you think Rimac took over manufacturing the engine from VW?

CJinSD · ‎12-04-2022

A look back to when many of Car and Driver's writers were real men. Good times.

CJinSD · ‎09-04-2022

Musk didn't get where he is by being stupid enough to fail to learn a lesson from doing business in California. He isn't about to get in bed with Whitmer. Then there's Amazon. I bet they remember what happened when they tried to revitalize a part of Brooklyn that was infected with leftism. Detroit isn't at the start of the road to a one-party utopia. It's what lies at the end.

CJinSD · ‎09-04-2022

According to Strategic Vision, 65% of truck owners haul something in the beds of their trucks more than once a year. So, you're really only talking about a third of truck drivers who might not have good reasons for driving their trucks, and it is entirely possible that some people don't haul anything in their beds because they bought their trucks to tow gooseneck trailers. It is 100% nobody's business but the truck buyers themselves why they bought their trucks.

CJinSD · ‎09-04-2022

I used to drive a leased A6 3.0T. It was some years ago, but it didn't cost much more than this less powerful Jetta. Out of curiosity, I built a similar car on Audi's website. It would still only cost about 10% more to buy a six-cylinder A6 which in no way invites comparisons to VWs.

CJinSD · ‎07-04-2022

As more EVs are forced onto the market, expect these apocalyptic fires to become as common and unreported as vaccinated high school athletes dying of strokes.

CJinSD · ‎02-04-2022

Coronet wagons from the period—including the all-steel versions in 1951–52—are worth 635 percent more than same-model sedans and 422 percent more than two-doors in #2 condition. The average value of a 1949–50 Coronet wagon is $76,400, while the 1951–52 version is $16,600. If a 1952 wagon costs $16,600 and that is 635% more than a sedan, then a 1952 sedan costs ($16,600)/(1+6.35) = $2,258.50

CJinSD · ‎31-03-2022

I would greatly appreciate it if you can point me in the direction of a #2 condition 1952 Dodge Coronet Sedan for $2,258.50.

CJinSD · ‎31-03-2022

They still use VW engines.

CJinSD · ‎31-03-2022

The purpose of this round of CAFE was to price the working class out of cars and eliminate useful long-life cars that they buy used. So yes, if you have enough money then you're entitled to fly private jets around the world telling the middle class that their living standards are ruining the elites' planet.

CJinSD · ‎29-03-2022

The styling suggests it was meant to take on the Motard market instead of remaining a naked bike, especially when it is parked outside of a cafe.

CJinSD · ‎27-03-2022

That was the price for the trim package. The base price of the car was $11,060.

CJinSD · ‎26-03-2022

If you're talking about people at Costco, they pull the hose to the other side in order to access the first available pump and they know both where their fuel filler is and that Costco pumps are designed to fill either side of a car.

CJinSD · ‎22-03-2022

The twins are definitely too much Subarus for me to consider, but I do believe that the 6-speed manual used in all of them is a development of the Aisin transmission used in a few Lexus IS models. In the form used in the BRZ and 86, it is called the Toyota TL70 transmission.

CJinSD · ‎22-03-2022

911s have become Mustangs for rich guys.

CJinSD · ‎19-03-2022

The inescapable failure of the EV infrastructure is a feature for the people forcing us out of automobiles.

CJinSD · ‎17-03-2022

https://driventowrite.com/2020/12/04/northern-irish-car-dawb-6-development-story/ It's front wheel drive with the gearbox incorporated into the engine, which wasn't done on the Mini until five years after the DAWB 6 was designed.

CJinSD · ‎15-03-2022

The Escalade-V could have been a printing press for dollars when we received energy independence instead of treason from our Department of Energy.

CJinSD · ‎15-03-2022

You also have to think that the child slaves in the cobalt mines have it coming.

CJinSD · ‎15-03-2022

A perfect London city car can drive over the Extinction Rebellion without spilling your tea. This thing is useless.

CJinSD · ‎12-03-2022

The first cars Devin built himself had Panhard components. The Devin SS was sold as a complete car briefly with Chevrolet components. The Devin D was sold as a kit or as a complete car bult by Devin using a Devin tube frame, VW components and a choice of VW or Porsche engines. Devin built 46 complete Model Ds. He also built a version with a different frame that suited Corvair components.

CJinSD · ‎12-03-2022

https://www.sportscarmarket.com/profile/1959-devin-d-porsche-special This Devin D Porsche was out of Bill Devin's personal estate.

CJinSD · ‎10-03-2022

I suspect that the staff at CandS knew that the Germans were selling Porsche 911s and VW Beetle Convertibles in 1979, two dinosaurs that made the 1964 Wagoneer look as advanced as an Accord. Also, 'producing' the fastest numbers in 1979 would have meant claiming this LA360 powered SJ covered the quarter mile in less than eighteen seconds at over seventy-five miles per hour.

CJinSD · ‎10-03-2022

Except water vapor is a much more powerful 'greenhouse gas' than carbon dioxide.

CJinSD · ‎10-03-2022

The misanthropic properties of electric vehicles are features for the oligarchs forcing them on us, not bugs.

CJinSD · ‎09-03-2022

You sound like you believe in coincidence.

CJinSD · ‎08-03-2022

The Monster didn't have a fake engine perched on its decklid when the movie was filmed. Why would someone do that to the car? Tearing down European heritage sights in the name of climate change makes perfect sense, when you understand what climate change is all about.

CJinSD · ‎03-03-2022

If they were serious about cheap racing, they would just make it a $5,000 claimer class and include the 'safety equipment.'

CJinSD · ‎03-03-2022

Reading that, "there’s something magical about checking your mail on a Saturday morning and seeing a Maserati-powered Citroën SM decked out in full rally regalia lean into a turn like a fighter jet," poses some questions. Do the rules allow competitors to update their cars with features like active suspension? Where can I find an image of video of the Citroen performing this spectacular trick?

CJinSD · ‎23-02-2022

At GM, we'll sell you ideas today that just may work on some distant tomorrow.

CJinSD · ‎23-02-2022

Doesn't buying a Ghost announce to the world that your pockets aren't really all that deep? You might as well leave the BHPH license plate surround on your McLaren while you're at it.

CJinSD · ‎18-02-2022

Don’t waste your time commenting that we should have taken a Rivian or a Ford Lightning. Sure, a pure electric truck towing a soon-to-be-electric Lamborghini would have made more perfect symmetry. But because we would have been forced to stop a whole bunch of times to recharge the rig, it would have also verified to another set of would-be commenters that electric cars are just a silly comedy of magical thinking. Does conceding that you didn't use an electric truck because doing so would have revealed how deficient they are relative to the trucks we have now for doing important truck things convince anyone that EVs aren't as inferior now as they were when gasoline-powered cars with electric starters drove them off the market about a century ago?

CJinSD · ‎18-02-2022

The desire to drive an electric Lamborghini Espada is the automotive equivalent of necrophilia.

CJinSD · ‎12-02-2022

I looked at a road test of the new Si. It is 0.8 seconds slower to sixty miles per hour than my fifteen-year-old Si was when the same magazine tested it. They do claim that the new one gets considerably better gas mileage, but that's not what I bought the car for all those years ago. A Honda powered by a low-revving heat pump is like an Alfa Romeo powered by a low revving heat pump, only more so when you consider that the long-running Alfa twin-cam didn't really sing at high engine speeds once displacement exceeded 1,600 ccs.

CJinSD · ‎07-02-2022

Doesn't CR-V stand for Civic Recreational Vehicle?

CJinSD · ‎07-02-2022

All of the perceived danger without the off-putting intensity.

CJinSD · ‎07-02-2022

He also said that he has a "self-made racing background." It's all just a matter of perspective.

CJinSD · ‎02-02-2022

I'm a fan of the TZ1, going back to my Corgi Junior days.

CJinSD · ‎25-01-2022

It looks like a 2006 Honda Civic that has let itself go in middle age.

CJinSD · ‎24-01-2022

I thought EQS was the name of a Hyundai? EVs are for people who drive alone while wearing two masks.

CJinSD · ‎24-01-2022

Does the driver have five air conditioning registers to control? I don't remember them the way I do Chrysler's downward-facing right-side remote-control mirror joysticks hidden in the centers of their dashboards, but they're a neat lost feature, assuming they're what they appear to be.

CJinSD · ‎21-01-2022

A good winter beater has to start when you turn the key. Not much consideration for this quality is evident on the list.

CJinSD · ‎20-01-2022

I find it discouraging that so many people have been brainwashed to fear the fundamental building block of life on this planet.

CJinSD · ‎19-01-2022

I detest authoritarians. Every day will be better than the next until they're stopped.

CJinSD · ‎18-01-2022

What does the death of the BMW V12 mean for Rolls-Royce?

CJinSD · ‎18-01-2022

At 4:39 into the video, he says that the engine displaces 560 cubic inches.

CJinSD · ‎18-01-2022

There were American minivans in the '60s. They were all based on their manufacturers' compacts, and they were small. The 1964 Dodge A100 was 171 inches long on a 90-inch wheelbase. Ford and GM made competitors based on the Falcon and Corvair. When the Corvair Greenbriar van had run its course, GM introduced the A100-clone G10, also on a 90-inch wheelbase. The lack of available affordable new cars is a feature of federal regulations. EVs will be the straw that breaks the working class's back. Serfs will be moved in boxcars soon after.