That's a LaForza! They're rare as hen's teeth. So yeah, low-volume, boutique, 1980s Italian SUV; janky is about right. I think all the ones that came here had Ford V8s; maybe a 302 or 351.
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That's a LaForza! They're rare as hen's teeth. So yeah, low-volume, boutique, 1980s Italian SUV; janky is about right. I think all the ones that came here had Ford V8s; maybe a 302 or 351.
I think it was 180 cents du nord for 87 last time I was in Montreal in September; maybe 20c more for the 91 that my Infiniti Q50 demanded. The Canadian dollar is weak right now and Canada is a...
Nissan just released a huge archive of press photos. I don't have the time to upload them to the Hide-Out, but they're there for everyone to view, Especially you, NSX...
That said I thought I...
Nah, most all automotive flywheels are ferrous; I was thinking of the electromechanical hybrid that Porsche made a few years ago that spun up a flywheel (not connected to the engine) rather than...
Make your mechanical flywheels while tungsten is still cheap!
Was this when pickups jumped the shark and went from working vehicles to "cowboy Cadillacs"? I think its aerodynamic car-ness and the branching of the phylogenetic tree away from the so-called Super...
I got excited thinking that I saw a Nissan Leopard (the early one) in Western Massachusetts of all places... Turns out it was a Dodge Mirada; a very interesting and unexpected doppelganger.
Yeah, I went to the LA show this year and it was a pretty pathetic affair... Even compared to the very lackluster NYIAS I went to in '19. Even just two years before that, NY seemed to have a decent...
I agree that filling up is a chore and I suspect that many others feel similarly. Though as someone with a small bladder, many gas stations have been godsent on long roadtrips... Filling up in LA was...
The inscrutable, ineffable world of midcentury press shots is not for us to understand, Duell!
https://www.theautopian.com/cold-start-is-this-a-cult/...
These "Rope Drive" Tempests are part of my favorite cohort of GM compacts; their stablemates include the (in)famous Corvair (though I prefer the second generation), the later-turbocharged Olds F-85...
That ad in the final post is fantastic! Back when "wing" mirrors were actually on the wings (fenders)! It's interesting how enthusiastically the Japanese took to them; I'd imagine the primary...
Was this not sent to Canada under both the Pontiac and Asüna badges? CDM FTW.
I'd be curious about people's EV experiences as well. As a stupid car person on the internet, it still doesn't quite sit right with me when existing nameplates get rehashed for EVs that bear no...
I don't know where to put this, so it'll have to go in this long-dead repository of Antipodean scuttlebutt.
It occurred to me that my cylinder count and valve count are out-of-whack:
'02 Honda...
Say what you will about BMW design, but it has been very flattering to the outgoing models for the last two decades! I remember really disliking the E9x models until they were replaced; now I only...
I noticed that we only have the A33 Nissan Cefiro (under the nom-de-guerre of the USDM Infiniti I30) in the Hideout. Does anyone have any pictures of the much-better-looking, in my opinion, A31...
A part of me almost enjoys that BMW has seen fit to up the ugliness stakes with each new model. I remember thinking the X7 was overwrought and unnecessarily "styled"...
Perkele!
I think I prefer the T.33 to the T.50, which was the last car launched about which I was really excited. Perhaps some 911 GTS/GT3 analogy is warranted. The T.50's more-modern styling integrates a...
Surely Giorgio would include a copy of this pre-installed in the tape deck:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIomUYapmQQ
I had always assumed that "Bellell" was a typo when people meant to reference the "Bellett". Here I am expanding my brain and learning that they were, in fact, two separate cars!
Good stuff as...
When I was in highschool looking for my first car on Craigslist, these were the vehicles most-consistently listed for fewer than $100. Later in life, I met someone who has driven Aerostars...
MoS, you've been busy! It's always a pleasure to click "New Posts" and to see you've been on a rampage in the Hideout again.
Do you have any photos of racing Imps? I have a softspot for these...
In (mainland) Europe, do you pronounce this "Darby" as the Brits do or more-phonetically like we do on this side of the Atlantic?