rev up your engines, Mario Cortez says what do you think
about Toyota 4runners, well they're interesting vehicles Toyota
just had to pick up trucks right and then they came up with the idea let's
get rid of the bed, put a couple more seats, turn it into what we'll call an
SUV and start selling them, well guess what they took off like gangbusters
since then they sold millions of those things, people
love the 4runners now they're far cry from the early forerunners I had
customers with some of the early ones here in Houston and they weren't
basically a pickup truck with extra seats in the back, but now they're kind
of luxury SUVs they're not cheap they're not give them away, and they're no longer
you know a small size they're pretty big vehicles, you can afford the price they
can last an awful long time 9763 says
Scotty is a BMW 320 around 2003 with a 2.2 liter engine reliable in Europe, you
know actually they can be here in the United States the parts cost a fortune
but in Europe when I go there people have them and they love them, now most of
the cars that you're driving in Europe hey they were all made in Germany, that
thing was made in Germany, better make cars lot of the stuff in the United
States is not made Germany, quality isn't as good, that's why I tell people you what
a luxury car get a Lexus you know why cuz
all the Lexus cars are still made in Japan, they do make some of the Lexus
SUVs but they make them in Cambridge Ontario and the Canadians do a really
good job, but as for the sedan's hey they're all still made in Japan by
Japanese and the quality is just better, and if you get a car made in Germany by
Germans yeah the quality is better than the stuff that we get here in the states
all the time, in Christ I rest says Scotty what do you think about buying a used smart
fortwo, well you wouldn't get them cheap in the United States the resale value
those are made in France and it's German engineering Mercedes has
something to do with it, and they're very tiny little cars, from what I've read
they're only gonna be making electric cars now in Europe and I wouldn't be
surprised if they actually just pull out of the United States entirely, they never
had much of a dealership set up here anyways, their fun to tool around in and I
got a customer with one and I drive around but I
mean I personally wouldn't seem dead in one of those things on highway, tiny
little thing and here we got these giant 18 wheelers and big offroad trucks in
Texas on the road, you're in one of those tiny things you don't feel very
secure you know and they aren't that fast so it's not
like you're on a motorcycle and you can go as fast and zip around them and that
thing yeah you can't cuz they're not that quick, if you want a toy to toy
around in inner city and you can get it cheap used, why not just realize that
it's gonna be expensive getting parts for them, if you get one get one that's low
mileage, def says hi Scotty what do you think about Edsel, I'm
assuming you mean the car and not Edsel Ford the son of Ford, so if you don't
mean the car, kind of funny I got a customer who owns one and he loves the
car, what happened was when I made the edsel they brought it out too early, they
didn't test it right, and they had all kinds of problems and then they gave up
with it, but of course now it's a semi collector's item, because most people
destroyed them or they drove them they fell apart put them in a junkyard, but
today a restore Edsel is actually worth a reasonable amount of
money, you know it's a big monster yacht American car, you know from those days
when they had big giant yacht Mobile's with huge engines that got horrible gas
mileage, people do collect them now believe it or not you know the joke is
on them now that the edsel could be worth a whole bunch of money, Jonathan Pando
says do you think a 2,000 pontiac Montana van could last a long time with
low maintenance, no, not unless your the luckiest man on
the planet, those Montana's I had customers with them
and as they aged they had nothing but problems and these are people that took
care of the vehicles, they changed the oil regularly, they changed the coolant
once every four or five years they took care of them, but they still fell apart
on them and of course Pontiac they're not making any pontiacs anymore so I
mean, no I would not buy a Montana van I mean if somebody gave you one and you
got one that's what 20 years old now for five hundred bucks and it's a
Knockaround vehicle, go right ahead but as soon as something big started to go
wrong, get rid of it don't put a bunch of money into something like that, John D says
Scotty how would you go about getting an old MGB to run it sat for 30 years three
thirty years is a long time, first thing I would do okay it's an old mg B so
it's carbureted, first thing I would do is I
would take all the spark plugs out and I'd put some Marvel Mystery Oil I'd squirt
some in each cylinder and I'd let it sit for 24
hours, I would get a long cheater bar and a socket
and put it on the front of the crank and I would try to turn that engine over by
hand 360 degrees, because if it only turns a little and then stops the
engine is locked up inside and then you're gonna have to take the whole engine
apart, I mean you could soak it for days then with some marvel mystery oil in it,
but once you get that if you do turn it it goes more than 360 degrees more than a
full circle and it doesn't bind then put a battery in it, get some starting fluid
see if you can start the thing who knows but a lot of times those old English
cars, man they had a lot of steel in them and they'll just lock right up right,
rot right up sitting that long, so if you never want to miss another one of my new
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