TradeUniqueCars.com.au 101if anybodyoutthereis
shoppingforone,I’dwant
toknowexactlywhatmods
have been made and who
made them before I shelled
out the cash. Tuning is
a great way to bump
performance, but unless
it’s been done properly,
you could wind up with a
grenade. But a Forester
S that’s been tuned by a
switched-on specialist like
Brett Middleton at MRT
would be an awesome little
sleeper.
Just make sure any
used Subaru you look at
has a full service history,
though, as these engines
won’t tolerate skipped oil
changes. The oilways are
pretty small and a top-end
ticking from the lifters is
the first sign that all is not
well. Unfortunately, by
then, further damage has
already been done, so a
tickety-tick Subie is one to
avoid.Don’t call me Lefty
I’ve been looking to buy a
muscle car for a few years
now. I was excited whenFordreleasedtheMustang
inlate2015.I likeditsDOHC
motorbutI wouldhave
liked it more if it was a 6.2,
bringing it up to par with
its rivals the Camaro and
Hellcat.
Buy when I f licked
through Motor magazine
and saw that the centre
console was still left-hand-
drive, I was disgusted. I
could not believe it! How
can Ford sell a hotch-potch,
half-baked, half-converted
car into a right-hand-drive
market? It seems I’d have to
ask my passenger to apply
the park-brake and look
through the centre console
for my licence while I mind
the cups.
How disgusting is that?
If Ford has left such an
obvious thing as the centre
console unconverted- a first, no other car
manufacturer has ever done
that – then what else have
they left unconverted? I’ve
been a Ford man all my
life. I’m looking away now.
Which means I also looked
at the new Camaro.
I was hoping that GM
would build the factory RHD
THE DRILL
It always staggers me
when somebody’s car runs
out of oil over a period of
weeks or months and the
engine seizes. Okay, the
engine going bang isn’t
the surprising bit, it’s the
fact that anybody can be
so ignorant as to let their
engine run out of oil. Me?
When I’m on a road trip (or
an off-road trip recently)
I always do a quick
underbonnet check every
morning before hitting the
key. Most recently, this
showed up a coolant leak
from a cracked radiator – I
was able to limp 900km
back to Alice Springs to
fix it. Had I not checked,
you can guarantee the rad
would have let go big time
somewhere in the middle of
the Gibson Desert.
Camaro and, looking back, I
could see that some General
Motors product had a fair bit
of f lair and detailing.
Some of the Cadillacs
were outstanding (the
`58 comes to mind) and if
they were to build a RHD
Camaro, I knew it would be
perfect. But horror seems to
be following us around here
in Oz.
Instead of a factory
RHD Camaro, something
that would hold its value
in years to come, we got a
LHD Camaro converted to
RHD by HSV. What a load of
crap! No wonder people are
asking $700,000 for a Phase
3 Falcon...there is nothing
to take its place.Peter Vossos
South Gundagai, NSWJEEZ PETER, sounds like
you’re taking the move to
global car design personally.
And while I feel your pain