During my recent trip to California, I stopped by one of the biggest self-service wrecking yards in the San Francisco Bay area, a steel-company-owned yard that turns over its inventory of many hundreds of cars and trucks about every two months. If you see a car in this yard, you can be sure that its steel will be on a China-bound container ship within eight weeks. Such is the case with this 59-year-old Buick sedan. (Read More…)
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binkje - According to Di’s sources, Saab has postponed their tax payments over several years and the suspicion is...
AMC_CJ - A tad less then 23k for the Mustang (before taxes and all of that great stuff). The Fiesta I saw on the lot, but had been sold,...
CJinSD - You’re right CelticPete. Car and Driver tested a 3 cylinder 1.0 liter Ecoboost Focus. It was pathetically slower(2.7...
niky - Whereas the modern equivalent (in terms of size and specs), the Mitsubishi Mirage, gets 40… combined. Of course, having driven both, the Mirage is nowhere...
CJinSD - I’m seeing a pattern where you involve yourself in discussions to counter act correct conclusions, Power 6. I’d love to know what...
Beerboy12 - Two things. One is the Fiesta is a small car so a 2 liter would be to big. Second, Turbo’s are about pressure...
CJinSD - 6 million, 249 million, what’s the difference? I suspect you could tell if it suited you.
-Nate - I see a huge amount of incorrect W-123 info here ~ The folks who don’t like a particular vehicle feel free to bash it mercilessly , no facts required ....
CJinSD - Adjusted for 2008 EPA standards, that car would be rated 25 city/32 highway MPG. It also wouldn’t pass emissions or safety standards, and it would be as...
Marcelo de Vasconcellos - i’ll easily beat all of you, in the less is more department. Our two cars have in total 2.0L, 8 cylinders and 143 horsies.