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You do have to watch out for Clarkson in particular as he does have a good bit of anti-american bias. Err well I wouldn't even call it just that he has anti-german, anti-french and basicly anti anyone who is not british.
If a car is truly amazing though he will ignore where it comes from but might make a comment along the lines of...
"and what makes Insert Car Name Here even more amazing is that it was designed by those bloody colonials."
Oddly, a few tablespoons of salt were usually enough to ruin those things around here.
To anyone watching it on the Discovery Channel, you're getting the watered-down version. The full episodes are one hour long with no commercials. One of the parts that isn't featured on the US version is the "Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car."
One of these segments featured Clarkson comparing the BMW satnav system to the one in his Mercedes. He said the BMW voice was a female that politely asked the driver to make a U-turn, the Mercedes voice was an angry German man that told him (cue German accent) "you will turn around and try it again now."
That is a really great star in a resonably priced car one.
Oh and if you haven't seen the episode where Clarkson drives the Audi A8 diesel 800 miles on a single tank of gas then you also missed a great one.
You're KILLING me!!! I still can't believe what all they did to that poor little truck, man, makes me want to go buy one, lol.
I've got a Ford in the yard that looks almost like it went through the same thing. It was a victim of someone taking the *4x4 Off Road* stickers literally! I really don't think Ford meant for the truck to be used as a tree basher. When we picked it up my little brother said "don't hurt the driver's side door, its worth $350 on the salvage market and its the ONLY straight panel on the truck".
If it wasn't a Powerstroke diesel and it didn't run as good as it does no way I would have paid $2k for it. The engine is worth more than that........it really is sad when the engine is worth more than the whole truck! :sick:
When the dust gets thick on the back window of his Mini Cooper, Scott Wade uses it as a canvas to create temporary works of art. Among his creations was a copy of C.M. Coolidge's 'A Friend in Need,' better known as dogs playing poker.
More pictures can be found at autoblog.com
I tried to get DSL but "the powers that be" say it's not available on my phone number. My office doesn't have a cable connection so I'm stuck with dial up and no "picture shows" :sick:
Mark156 :surprise:
What you could try was to bring the video up and then hit pause. The video will keep loading as the image is paused and you can come back and watch it after say 20 or 30 minutes.
For some reason, my computer has been running awfully slow.. or it might be my server. Anyway.. thanks for the tip!
Mark156
I looked at the TRD package again, & for what you get, over the SR5: Alloys, fog lights, Bilsteins, nicer seat fabric (?), etc., it seems like a very good deal. One thing I learned when I bought my current bmw: it's way more expensive to add options after the fact (if you really want them). And it's frustrating to drive around in a car you got "a better deal on", but wish you'd spent the extra $3K on the BMW Sport Package, or whatever.
Personally, I think I'm going to look at used 4Runners, esp. if the prices are down. And maybe slightly used current-gen Tacomas--even tho everyone says their resale is so good that it's almost not worth buying used, if I could get a mint condition year old TRD package & save a few thousand (?), that could make it do-able for me.
I guess $28K sticker for a TRD offroad package, auto, V6, doesn't seem ridiculous to me. And the 18 mpg: well, I owned a Ranger Rover that got 12 mpg, so......
But it's all Personal decisions & preferences, I think.
Cheers, Woody
And for me, someone who has had a couple of Toyota pick-ups over the years, it is just amazing that the lowly little guy has reached the $30K sticker price point. That has me doing double-takes, but I agree it is not an outlandish price in the context of the market.
The big V-6 the current model has makes this truck FAST when it's empty. It weighs about what my 4Runner does but has a full 1/3 more power. Wow.
As for 4Runners, new ones are being so heavily discounted now that paying more than about $22K for a used 4x4 Runner is a bad idea, IMO. Beyond that price point you should just go the extra 10% and buy new.
2014 Mini Cooper (stick shift of course), 2016 Camry hybrid, 2009 Outback Sport 5-spd (keeping the stick alive)
Thank you Thank you Thank you!!!!!
Oh here's a picture of my Ford that I was talking about.......it looks almost like its been through the same thing. Had the tranny serviced today (originally thought the tranny was going bad) and there's nothing wrong with it, was just a plugged tranny filter.
25 NX 450h+ / 24 Sienna Plat AWD / 23 Civic Type-R / 21 Boxster GTS 4.0
The inside was completely re-upolstered and painted. The dash was original though and had one scorch mark. Never had a problem with that truck, and the 4-cyl ran like a champ even though I used it pretty heavily in a landscape business I needed it for in high school and college.
I'm with Nippon on the 4 cyl.,if I was to get one today that is the way I would go. Although I think a crew cab in 4 cyl would be a tough one to find.
If you want a 4-cyl 4x4 crew cab truck, I think the GM models used to offer that, but I'd say it wasn't a very good seller. It's not offered in 2007, but you can still get a 4-cyl 2wd crew cab.
The Fifth Gear presenters seem to have less in the way of personality than the Top Gear presenters. I look forward to the next Top Gear, but don't regularly watch Fifth Gear.
Hamsters eat cardboard! :P
Its very similar to everytime someone mentions "the force" in Star Wars.
You'd think--a diesel 4Runner, Taco, or Tundra would sell like hotcakes in the US, but maybe they think we spoiled Americans don't really want diesels. Kind of like BMW (even tho even BMW sold a diesel in the US once).
2005 Westminister Range Rover. Only 300 were made and original MSRP was around 85,000 dollars.
The 2.3 is from the Mazda3/Mazda6 and is plenty powerful. I wasn't sold on the color but it's growing on me, and it has the grey interior which is a plus as I can't stand beige. Only real problem is that it really holds on to revs between gears. I'm trying to figure out if there's a good fix for that. Anyway, here it is. I still need to clean up the Miata to get some good pics, but I am taking it to Summit Point next weekend.
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-Jason
Is the inline six in the Trailblazer/Envoy as unrefined and whiny as the inline five that is based on it?
25 NX 450h+ / 24 Sienna Plat AWD / 23 Civic Type-R / 21 Boxster GTS 4.0
I've never driven the inline-5 canyon, but I did drive a Trailblazer a couple times that had the inline-6. I found it to be quiet and fairly refined, quite peppy too. I can't remember what it was, but there was something about the truck that annoyed me, thus the reason I didn't buy it.
I'm trying to remember what I owned at the time, but I remember thinking the Trailblazer what a lot quieter than what I was driving.
2006 Range Rovers have the upper light clear in LED lights that turn orange when they light up.
2006 Supercharged Range Rovers have clear upper and lower lights that are LED driven.
As to the 6 cylidner in the Trailblazer. The 4200 series motor is very smooth, efficient and powerful. It would be a great motor for a midzised sports sedan but GM will never do it because they don't think out of the box enough. You could de-stroke that motor down to 4.0 liters or maybe even a little smaller.
Pump the revs up after that and add variable valve timing to both intake and exhaust and I am sure 350 horsepower would be very easy.
Turbo charged versions of that motor have made I belive close to 400 horsepower.
Twin turbo trailblazer
I don't pretend to know all the harmonics and such behind it, but from what I understand inline 6s and V12s are perfectly balanced, and most other types of engines have at least one or more inherent imbalances. 5 cyls are historically pretty tough go get smooth.
-Jason
Volvo has down various 5 cylinder motors for years with no problems. Honda has done a couple of 5 cylinders and both Mercedes and Land Rover have done 5 cylinder diesels for a long time.
It was a bad car but considering it had 240,000 plus plus miles, not sure exactly how many as the odometer worked off and on, and still get around 30 mpg with the AC on it wasn't but so bad.
As for 4-cyl extended cabs, it is easy to find Tacomas in that configuration as long as you only want RWD. If you want 4WD, there are like a handful anywhere on the west coast. Funny thing is, this weekend I was camped next to some people that had one (4-cyl 4WD). They told me it took them forever to get the one they wanted, and even then they had to settle for the ubiquitous silver, when they really wanted the dark blue.
As for the diesels, Toyota sells more diesel than gas in Hilux (Tacoma/4Runner) in some global markets. I think they just didn't bring it here because they never saw the demand, and because of the new emissions regs. Since they have announced there will be a diesel for the next-gen Tundra, I think it wouldn't be outside the realm of possibility that they might eventually certify a diesel for the Tacoma too. That would be a good idea, I think. Why don't any of the manufacturers offer a diesel in their midsize pick-ups?
2014 Mini Cooper (stick shift of course), 2016 Camry hybrid, 2009 Outback Sport 5-spd (keeping the stick alive)
I always liked Tacos, in spite of being somewhat overpriced, but the recent redesign just made it too big for me to consider, since I have to squeeze into some tight parking spaces. And the pseudo-Dodge schnoz they put on starting in 2001 or so ruined the looks of the earlier generation for me.
Stripped down, fleet model XL Rangers are easy to find, if you can give up cloth seats, cruise, carpet, stereo, alloy wheels, and probably even A/C. No thanks.
-Jason
I am considering having it towed to Swope (Louisville) or The BMW Store (Cincinnati) to do an estimate. I think The BMW Store is BMW-certified, but I'm not sure. Any suggestions?
Edit: Does the BMW Store even have a body shop?
Hope you are well though.
The Sandman
My car:
The car that ran the red light:
First step: Get the highest estimate you possibly can. In order to accomplish that, you need to have your sled towed to the most expensive body shop that still enjoys "preferred" status with your insurance carrier.
The number that store gives you will pretty much be gospel... I decided to not have a car repaired in similar circumstances, and the adjuster that was sent out to do a 2nd appraisal came in $50 under the original $6k appraisal. The higher the figure, the better your options.
The next step is to figure out what your car was worth pre-accident, and what it will likely bring after the fix. Also, you need to know if frame work will be involved.
Good luck,
-Mathias
There are fewer hurdles to getting diminished value (and, a premium rental car
I'm not saying I've thought of everything, if you have any more pointers, let me know. I wish I could just get a check for the value of the car, pre-crash, and go from there, but it's never that easy. Thanks for your help!