Recent content by goblin

And till proven wrong, they think right.

I believe they were the very first to use fully galvanized bodies.

20+ years ago I was swapping an engine (preventatively 😇) on my CRX, from a rusted 1989 Civic Hatchback junker, at my friendly local body shop. The owner (a friend), an older guy with decades of experience,went on a similar narrative, and decided to cut the whole front clip off. Just ahead of...

What I want to know is, 30 years from now, when I buy one of these at a Barrett Jackson auction for a megabazillion dollars, will I have to make sure it has been restored with original Ferrari batteries and electrical motors, or will restomods using (much more powerful by then) motors from a...

And this one is not mine, all credit goes to whoever thought of it before me on Ars. Note the rear wheel arch curve and marvel.

This just in straight from Maranello: ...an unfortunate mixup during the final PR package assembly had us reveal this with the wrong name. The correct model name to use in all subsequesnt communications is the Temurario. Thanks. Over. Sorry for bringing this up in the third discussion board...

2002 Diamante, best and worst car we ever had. Was assembled in Australia and sold here, everything Australian broke. Stupid stuff. Undersized front rotors always warping, AC mode valve, cabin heater leaked on a $4 transmission relay that then died, dashboard removal in both cases to fix. Then...

There are at least a few cliches here. Overseas is not only China. As far as tools go, Overseas has historically been Taiwan. And their labor costs are not 1/10 of ours, neither do they need to copy anything, or do they lack skills or ingenuity. They've been making tools since the war. They...

All I have to say is that if Mitsubishi decide to not forget what they know about car manufacturing - they'll survive. The no-BS stuff mentioned above makes perfect sense. Example from our 2002 Diamante that was already an aged model when we bought it: - The remote had the usual buttons - easy...

The Devil is in the details... I think there are simply too few people that can afford to have all the cars that they want. Used to be a time you'd have a two door coupe or a convertible, and, say, a sedan. Plus the wife's car. All brand spanking new, not some weekend project used. Nowadays we...

Suzuki could afford to leave the US market because leaving it barely made a dent (US sales were like 1% of their global sales). For Mitsubishi the US market still mattered and matters. Both are selling units in the millions every year, so none of them is quite dead yet.

I am not saving money by looking for the most reasonably priced gas - I simply make sure that I'm less lazy than the scumbag who decided to charge 30 cents more per gallon because they were too lazy to figure out something else and think it's fair game to fleece me $4.50 extra on a 15 gallon...

They simply don't have the money. And whatever money they have at the global level, is better spent on their bread and butter - mid and small pickup trucks and SUVs, which can't be imported because of the chicken tax. Making a living from a Mitsubishi-only dealership, in the US, has not been...

Mitsubishi's death in the US has been predicted with swiss-clock regularity, for six months from now, year after year, since pretty much the time when the Lancer was discontinued in the US (about 10ish years ago), and before that (already at the Lancer's launch in 2007 many were burrying them...

Torque Test Channel had a test of Icon wrenches with a Craftsman Overdrive bit at the end, and they were very good. As mentioned above - the gunmetal-colored stuff.