When I park my '90 Dodge 3/4-ton next to even a modern Toyota pickup, I feel dwarfed by their girth. It's flippin' amazing how big pickups have gotten. No thanks. I'll stick with old school (I'll wait for the collective gasp...)
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When I park my '90 Dodge 3/4-ton next to even a modern Toyota pickup, I feel dwarfed by their girth. It's flippin' amazing how big pickups have gotten. No thanks. I'll stick with old school (I'll wait for the collective gasp...)
Amen to that. It's one of the little reasons the 05-11 997 gen 911s are preferred to the '12-? 991 gen. Before COVID I traveled as much as 40 weeks per year and had all sorts of rental cars. Electric steering feels numb. It may be more precise and lighter, but it doesn't give good feedback.
The one option I didn’t add to my F350 was the adaptive steering. I test drove one and didn’t like the feel. The normal steering is good.
Yep. Not a fan of the lack of feel with electric assist.
The absolute best car I've ever owned with regard to steering feel was an '85 Mark II Golf with manual steering. The car was super light. 2 door, stick, base motor and skinny tires. A front drive, yes, but it would rotate by lifting the throttle in a turn. Steering feel was almost akin to running your palm across the pavement. A car you could easily take beyond its meager limits and casually walk it back under control. SO fun.
I could look it up, but you might be just as fast, what's the drivetrain?
Edit; looks like they're all powered by NA I-6 with 5- speed trans.
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First time I ever saw one was at a car show for the latest releases. I sat in the roadster and thought "meh". Then I sat in the coupe, and I was absolutely in love. It was truly the only time in my life that I was correct about something going to be an instant classic. They're just beautiful little cars.
I've always been rather fond of them myself.
Manual steering is far superior in feel to any power unit I've ever experienced. Smaller cars certainly don't need power steering, and I can drive even large trucks without it, although that case wouldn't be my first choice but I know how.
And they boogie like a stabbed rat as well. Quick.
Never heard that one before. I've only stabbed a rat once, and it didn't boogie very well at all. Must've been defective.
A 250 / FMX for the win....
250 FMX?
Sorry, what is the reference? The 6 was 200 CID (2.8) and 120hp, I think. not amazing but it was a 2500# car. I’d rock that with a manual. The Golf I referenced earlier (https://wranglertjforum.com/threads/car-pics-too-cool-not-to-share.59109/post-1827811) had a similar power to weight and was a very nice DD.
The 250 Ford I-6 had 155 h.p. in a 69 Mustang and the FMX was the light duty 3 spd. automatic. I guess the drive train would be Okay for a DD , at least in a Falcon . Ford always presented the Mustang as a sporty / performance car . My opinion seems similar to you using the 6 banger Mustang as a daily driver.
Finally going to get finished. 68 with 18k original miles, swapped in a 572 hemi that I built. Bought in 1991 and I have never driven her. Envy!
You probably stabbed it too well, it's all about finesse when cutting rodents.
I know that struggle, but your about 10 years ahead of me. I bought a car in '02 and took it apart. It's still apart.
If it was an 18K mile car why take it apart?
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We had a few of those in the parking lot.
I remembered one specifically being in a yearbook. It took some digging, but feast your eyes...No, that hood is not open, the body kit just sucked that bad.
And those tribal graphics were painted with a bass boat like flake. That kid was proud of that car.Daddy bought him a nice new Hyundai Tiburon for his senior year. He drove it for a few weeks, then sent it to a shop to have a body kit and a turbo kit put on it, but some shady things happened and the car was stolen, so back to the tribe he went.
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