#for sure 4.5 and maybe 5.5 times. the .5 is from when i got bored after obi-wan's scene ended and ran off to go play in the mud or smthn 😭

[kenobihater]

of all the star wars movies, which of them do y'all 1) enjoy the most 2) consider the best quality and 3) think you've rewatched the most. add your answers in the reblogs or replies, i'm genuinely curious how much of an overlap there is within everyone's three answers. mine don't overlap at all! they're revenge of the sith, empire strikes back, and the force awakens :^)

[smoothshift]

Bought a 26 year old automatic Mazda. AC is uncontrollable, but she had decent mileage and now she's mine! [OC] via /r/cars

Bought a 26 year old automatic Mazda. AC is uncontrollable, but she had decent mileage and now she's mine! [OC]

Album: https://imgur.com/a/STWBeQp

I BOUGHT MY DREAM CAR! 1992 JDM Efini FD3S RX7 Touring X, almost completely stock, with around 27,000 original miles and one previous owner in Japan.

This is my first non front wheel drive sports car and first time driving a rotary and first time driving anything faster than a 2012 Skyactiv Mazda 3. Quick review of my automotive outlook as of day two of driving my RX7.

1: I get turbos now

2: I really get the sequential twin turbo

3: I get rotaries more than I even thought I would

4: why would anyone need a faster car I literally cannot comprehend a faster acceleration

4.5: how are you even supposed to redline it, I hit the gas and then am already going traffic speeds

5: I barely fit what the heck, I’m 6’3” and I can’t turn the wheel without hitting my knees with my hands

5.5: I might be keeping my Mazda 3 longer than I thought, not sure I can commit to having this car completely “daily-ed” due to fitting in this car (but you but I’m driving it every day regardless)

6: oh my god I get LSDs now too, also I DON’T HAVE TO UNDERSTEER EVERY CORNER OR SET MY REAR SWAYBAR * TO STUPID STIFF TO SLIDE IN A BARELY CONTROLLED OVERSTEER

The car is almost completely stock save for an aftermarket head unit, though it’s around .5 inches lower in the front and 1 inch lower in the rear than reported stock numbers (trying to figure out if it’s on aftermarket springs like the Eibachs everyone loves, or if they were cut (hopefully not), or if the automatic just weighs that much more, which it does, but I don’t think it would be enough to lower the car thaaaat much and I also can’t seem to find if anyone else with an auto reported that ride height difference).

Regardless, I did change the turn signal and running light combos to Depo style lights and changed the JDM side markers to black ones. I have a few plans for interior materials upgrades, as well as light and reflector changes on the exterior, and modernizing the infotainment. But I don’t have plans to change to the ’99 spec bumper and spoiler like everyone tends to do, I’ve fallen in love with the car pretty much as is which is a big surprise as I’ve always been an aftermarket guy. But if anything aftermarket happens to this it would be VERY low key and reversible. I’d never actually seen a stock example before I bought my own and it really just IS that perfect as is.

Finally backstory if anyone has read this far without getting bored. This car is a few years older than I am, I realized this summer that I'm at the point in my life now (single (very very single), job security, inexpensive food and housing tastes, living in a city with maybe the best public transportation and bike paths in the US, and splitting rent with a billion roommates) that I could import a JDM RHD RX7 before the price sky rocketed further or I got tied into the whole "dating and marrying another human being and starting a family with a minivan thing."

In the span of a couple months I found a (legal) importer (will name him if anyone is curious 'cause he was GREAT, just didn't want to get flagged as advertising), bid on the car, won the car, shipped the car, got it registered and insured in the US, and am now driving it. I’d recommend the Japanese auction route to a friend, if you’re even ok with RHD. The prices I was bidding on this one and other ones I lost on were definitely more fair than the US market prices with the exception that you won’t know compression numbers (to be fair that’s a huge gamble and I still need to get mine tested this week though it feels totally all right).

The importer culled my "buyers goggles" (there's a lot of junk out there he steered me away from), and when this car popped up, even though it was automatic I took one look at the pictures and the mechanic's appraisal and bid everything on it. I ended up winning it for around 60% of the price of a similar mileage R1 (if anyone is curious on the price difference for an auto vs a manual). The difference in cost can eventually go to manual swapping it, but I'm not worried about that right now. The main "flaws" are scratches on the dashboard, an AC unit that works but does it's own thing randomly, and that aftermarket head unit. And of course the fact that you can’t see it while driving it.

I’m going to go drive again. Thank god gas is cheap right now.