I love my Blizzaks. Worth every penny. And having proper winter tires means I also get to drive proper summer tires as well, and not (compromised-in-)all-seasons.
Yeah for sure, I agree. Summer rubber is where it's at. All seasons are like using a butter knife to cut steak and also bread. It'll work. Just not as well a steak knife and a bread knife would work.
America must be paradise.
In Germany, a V6 (even if small and not very powerful) is great.
You wear the "V6"-badge with pride on your Camry, not because you are boring to chose a Toyota, you chose the car because it has a large, powerful engine. Something cool and somewhat rare.
Not a 2 liter inline-4, you have 6 cylinders. As a V. A sports car. With muscles.
You have the "V6T" on your S4/S5 not because you forgot to opt the badge out, you chose it because it shows you have a "racing engine" (not from an hardcore enthusiast point of view, but as common perception).
You own a V6 car because you are important and attack the Autobahn or overtake everyone on the Landstraße as your time is precious.
Or because you are a young enthusiast and already achieved a lot and paid lots of money to have a fun car.
A V6 is something bold, cool, powerful, massive around here, where you are happy to drive anything with a displacement > 2 liter.
It must be nice being able to complain about a V6.
Of course, Bill's current fleet resembles this remark. And Bob's. And Frank.
I am also very light on V6s, never owning one. Maxima and Malibu are the only that even remotely qualify. Both had under 200 hp, though one of them was a very high water mark for N/A V6s in the 90s.
Bill had the 626 and Z24 which were solidly in the same ballpark as all of what we've listed so far.
If you really want to sick yourself:
1990 Continental - 3.8L V6, 140 hp, 215 lb-ft (tepid V8 performance, now conveniently packaged in an unreliable V6 for your convenience)
I am not counting my parents' cars, which would have added the GM 3500 and Ford Vulcan.
Cars with engines I have owned - it is sad really...
Topaz - 4 cyl something... maybe a low 2.something 3 or 4 HP (I think the 90 HP 2.3)
Sable GS- Junk car - 3.0 V6 - 140 HP - 3.0 L SFI Vulcan V6 140 hp (104 kW) 160 ft·lbf (217 N·m) 4-speed AXOD automatic (1986–90)
Then the Z24 - Wooooo 2.8 V6 with exhaust (not just the muffler, and not a fart can), probably still less than 140HP total. Exact numbers are hard to find, and changed slightly depending on the year.
Next was the Monte Carlo SS - Junk condition but Woooooo - V8 HO 305 - 180 HP
Then V6 Jimmy, also the 2.8 V6, so sad in this platform...
It was an 87 Sable GS. - 3.0.
The below is a decent free sight to decode basic stuff from a VIN.
I think maybe where we list our cars and stuff like this should be it's own thread vice the CTS Vsport.
Model Year 1987
Make Mercury
Model Sable
Engine Type 3 Li V6
Body Sedan
Style 4 Dr GS Sedan
Fuel Gas
Transmission A
Safety ACTIVE BELTS
Driveline FWD
MPG 0 miles/gallon
Wheelsize R0
Wheelbase 106 in.
Overall Width 70 in.
Overall Length 192 in.
Overall Height 54 in.
Vehicle Weight 0
Manufactured In CHICAGO, IL