PennSilverTaco's non-Toyota Japanese (and Korean) vehicle Rant/Rave MegaThread!

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I've never driven an NSX, so I wouldn't know; However, I would imagine that driving an NSX would be more enjoyable than the last girl I slept with!

 

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I know that you're a Toyota guy, but I this one made me want to cheat on my truck...

 

Imported Pathy... not a fan of those myself

 

Called a Terrano in its home market; I loved the 1996 Pathy I had before my Tacoma, but what drew me to this one was the fact that it has a manual transmission and no spark plugs!

 

Hahahhaha

 

According to a study mentioned by Jon Taffer on Bar Rescue, 41% of men would rather have bacon than sex; I'm in the 59%...

 

This is the mint one I worked on a few years ago. Japanese ferarri.

 

Unlike a Ferrari, routine maintenance is actually affordable!

 

Very true most Ferraris the engine has to be removed to even do the timing belt on this car it was a pain but it's doable

 

And it probably uses a few entry-level Honda parts; There was a guy in California who put like 300K miles on an NSX!

 

Depends on the examples for me

 

Last girl I was with? If I could go back and have a choice, I would choose a heaping plate of bacon over getting into bed with her...

 

Perhaps she could make the bacon too

 

She'd probably eat it all; You've seen pictures of her...

I'd known her since high school, we reconnected in August 2021 after I hadn't seen her since probably 2013; I knew she had mental problems, but I thought they were under control. One of her biggest problems was that if she felt like she was losing an argument, or even if she was just receiving a bit of constructive crititicism, she would go ballistic. Some members of TW may remember the story of how she threw an empty Diet Sunkist soda can out of my truck while I was driving her home one night; I understandably became irate and let loose a few profanities, but she became so enraged over being "yelled at" that I thought she was going to hit me.

One time, I took her to a demolition derby in Lancaster County and we stopped at Wawa for an early dinner. I had just cleaned the truck, and after she finished her spaghetti or whatever the hell it was, she precariously propped the empty container atop the dashboard. It almost immediately started to slide off, and this would have resulted in a mess that went beyond the confines of the WeatherTech floor liner. Purely out of reflex I started shouting her name, and luckily she caught the container before it splattered tomato sauce all over my truck, but she immediately got triggered because I was "yelling at her" and started screaming at me.

I wish I could say that was the only incident on that trip, but when we left the demo derby, she spilled her purse in the truck; That in itself isn't the problem, but we were stopping at Wawa again before I got on the road and she would have been able to grab her stuff then. She insisted on looking for her shit right then and there, and meanwhile other people were leaving; The car parked in front of me had left, leaving a wide open space for me to pull forward and not have to back up. There was a shitload of cars coming, which would have blocked my ability to pull forward. I told her to pull the door shut and look for her stuff when we got to Wawa, but she wasn't having any of it; An argument ensued, and she became angry and pulled the "don't yell at me card"...

I was tempted to shut her door and drive off, but I was worried that would trigger a violent meltdown; In the end, I ended up being able to pull forward instead of backing up after she'd gathered her things, but that was the last date I took her on.

I took her to a movie and three car shows, and slept with her once, before deciding it wasn't worth it; My mom called what she was doing "emotional blackmail". Never hefore have I dated a girl who had such enthusiasm for going to car shows, but looking back on it, I think she was just happy to get away from her shitty homelife and would have been happy if I brought her to strip clubs.

 

I found this picture on Wikipedia; It appears to be a base model since it has steel wheels...



I did some research, and A/C was apparently a standard feature across the board for the Beat's entire production run! Considering how hot Japan can get, I am amazed that some cars sold there were available without A/C!

 

Yeah my boss worked at the honda dealership in the 80s when ths only 2 acuras available were the Integra and Legend.

Back in those days and even until the late 90s, the dealership would upfit the base models with A/C if the customer picked that option.

 

In Acuras?

 

Think I saw a pic but I definitely remember the throwing trash out the window tale..grrrr. Pisses me off when people do that.

 

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This is a 1994 Mitsubishi Chariot MX; It is a JDM version of the Mitsubishi Expo (Also rebadged as the Dodge Colt Vista and the Eagle Summit) sold in America until 1996, and this is the first example I have seen in this country. I was a little disappointed that it's automatic, but the US-spec version is rare enough these days, so seeing this one was pretty cool!


April 10th, 2022:

Lansdale, Pennsylvania