Options
It's Time to Play "WHO AM I"?
This discussion has been closed.
Popular New Cars
Popular Used Sedans
Popular Used SUVs
Popular Used Pickup Trucks
Popular Used Hatchbacks
Popular Used Minivans
Popular Used Coupes
Popular Used Wagons
Comments
I keep thinking Nissan/Datsun 810 Maxima for your answer, early 80s before the shift to FWD in '85, but they still make Maximas. :confuse:
As for the Deville? Believe it or not, that name's been around close to 60 years! It first came out in 1949, as the name for Cadillac's first pillarless hardtop coupe. For 1950, all Cadillac coupes went hardtop, and the Coupe DeVille became a higher trim level. For 1956, they added a Sedan Deville hardtop sedan, and for 1959, DeVille became a whole model line. I forget now when they phased the DeVille name out, but by 2007 it was called DTS.
2014 Mini Cooper (stick shift of course), 2016 Camry hybrid, 2009 Outback Sport 5-spd (keeping the stick alive)
Okay then, I'm gonna guess a 1982 Celica?Okay, as soon as I typed that, something else popped into my mind...what about the 1984 Corolla SR-5 coupe? The Corolla went FWD for the most part in 1984, but the coupe stayed RWD, through 1987 I think. I don't know much about Toyota's engines, but maybe they pulled the SR-5's out of their pickup truck line?
Ah, the venerable Subaru. The model you show in your photo reminds me of a 2000 Impreza RS. I had a friend with one of those, and it was, indeed a peppy and excellent-handling car. It was not turbo-charged that year, though. The WRX took that car to a whole new level. I think the WRX was introduced to North America in what, 2002, followed by the STi in 2004?
tlong?
2014 Mini Cooper (stick shift of course), 2016 Camry hybrid, 2009 Outback Sport 5-spd (keeping the stick alive)
And my year was the first year I had a trim that offered IRS, just like a more expensive sibling with 6 cylinders. ;-)
Andre was so close, but then he went a different way... :surprise:
2014 Mini Cooper (stick shift of course), 2016 Camry hybrid, 2009 Outback Sport 5-spd (keeping the stick alive)
Which one was it?
2014 Mini Cooper (stick shift of course), 2016 Camry hybrid, 2009 Outback Sport 5-spd (keeping the stick alive)
I've been searching for the article on the vehicle but it must not be transcribed to the web. But I still have the original magazine at home (I think it was C&D although I've got collections of MT and some others as well)
Ya, I guess that wasn't a well executed participation of the thread on my part. :lemon:
a car before my time
quirky canopy
that cost too much dime
This is a very cool thread, good call shifty. :shades:
InterceptorFF ?Bonus - what other first did it have?
Of course that was my first car, which is why I knew all of those things. I got to where I could pretty much tell beetle years between 63 and 75 by the differences in the details on the car.
For example, the first year of the black stripe bumper was 1968. In 69 they added a rear window defogger. In 70 there were vents added to the engine cover lid. In 71 they added vents behind the rear side windows. In 72 they added double vents on the engine lid. In 73 the taillights became round, and in 74 a shock absorber mount was added to the bumpers!
REMINDER: Be sure to give a title to your "mystery" and put that title in the header. That way, we can tell in the thread that follows who is responding to which mystery. See my FIRST EXAMPLE
SUGGESTION: I think we shouldn't be running more than 2-4 mysteries at once, or we'll get confused as to who is answering to which one.
ANOTHER: If you wrote a mystery and nobody bit on it, rewrite it a bit and re-post it, reminding us that it's up for a second time. Sometimes a mystery might get lost in the feeding frenzy.
I used to have (probably still have it somewhere) a little booklet that described the yearly differences in the Beetle from the original '49 (in the US) up to around '75. I picked it up at a VW dealer.
Or were you referring to the 'Ur-Quattro'? 1980-1981?
VW CHANGES YEAR TO YEAR
Edmunds Price Checker
Edmunds Lease Calculator
Did you get a good deal? Be sure to come back and share!
Edmunds Moderator
I apologize, '66 was the last year of 6v and '67 was the first 12v year (at least for the beetle).
And Celicas were sold from '71-'05, so I guess that's 35 years if I'm counting right....
Oh, and they went FWD for the '86 model. And the '83 was the best-selling year of all time for the Celica.
2014 Mini Cooper (stick shift of course), 2016 Camry hybrid, 2009 Outback Sport 5-spd (keeping the stick alive)
I started me career building carburetors, but later teamed up with other engineers to create racing engines. Even 40 years after my death, engines derived from my ideas were still running and winning races.
I died broke. My friend Preston Tucker paid for my funeral expenses so that I would not have to be buried in a pauper's grave.
Who Am I?
Here's a great book about him
And a web site
Harry Miller designed numerous race engines pre-WWII, including a 90 cid straight eight, supercharged and intercooled to yield 190 hp. From 90 ci! Harry's designs spawned the Offy.