Posted on 12/27/2016 4:38:07 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
I’ll let this info out. What the heck :)
I was 260 when I got the 350Z. Plenty of room but no one in the back seat :)
It’s just me and the wife so it’s ok.
Otherwise, or all effects and purposes, it’s a two seat car.
Go to your local diesel performance shop and disable the urea.
True story...
I was on a trip in a diesel pickup (brand new 2014 F250) with a trailer to a trade show in Texas from Washington. In heavy traffic, through Las Vegas the damned thing, had the governor kicked on and the truck wouldn’t go above 20mph... In heavy traffic. None of us in the truck knew anything about this urea crap. We manage to pull off somewhere and call a guy at the gas station told us about exhaust fluid. That’s crazy. Who ever heard of such a thing? Do we find ‘exhaust fluid’ next to the shore-line, prop wash, left handed screw drivers? Sure enough, there was an extremely expensive quart size bottles we had to buy and fill up exhaust fluid.
I see a divergence coming, with new vehicles being increasingly sophisticated all the way down to basic economy cars, relying upon ever lighter materials plus more and more electronics.
In-wheel “hub” electric motors combined with better and smaller battery packs that can be charged more quickly will lead to wider adoption of full electric vehicles, which will take advantage of the packaging flexibility that hub motors provide. See the overshadowed Nikola ATV for an example, street legal, all wheel drive, bizarrely fast.
Then there will be the growing retrofit market, fueled by people who just don’t like all the plastic, the increasingly alien looking styling, they’ll want real, solid vehicles but with all the modern safety and convenience features.
It’s going to lead to the preservation of a lot of vehicles that otherwise would be crushed and hence “remanufactured” cars and trucks will be regarded as “green.” It’ll be controversial though, since the changes will be pretty pervasive and many “classics” will fall to this remanufacturing,
My first new car was a ‘92 Dodge Stealth R/T. It had two things that looked like back seats, but no adult would fit back there. Well, maybe sideways.
You really are old!
ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!! WEIGHT!!!!!
Your older than dirt and dpo is a kid.
lol! Those cars aren’t bought to transport Grandma!
BTW, nice car!
“Those cars aren’t bought to transport Grandma!”
It hauled my mother around a lot. She was 74 when I got it, 80 when I got the Durango. She climbed in and out of both of them with very little help. She passed before I got my Genesis Coupe. I don’t know if she would have like that one.
Yeah, that would be a little rough. Nice car though.
I was walking down Maricopa Rd. and a cop came by.
He had a crash victim family in the car. They were off 10mi down.
I asked him to call Tony in town, end of story.
Life is fast.
I’m sorry about your mother’s passing.
My mother was never very agile and she couldn’t even get in the 350z I had.
80 and getting into those cars! She must have been a strong woman.
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