quasi Report This Comment
Date: October 30, 2025 09:18AM

Almost a block long block of blocks.

pulse Report This Comment
Date: October 30, 2025 12:09PM

My first car was an EL Falcon, straight 6. Ex-cop car. It had cop tires, cop suspension, cop shocks.

That car was ace.

quasi Report This Comment
Date: October 30, 2025 08:38PM

The worst vehicle I ever had had the best engine, a Ford pickup that was 20 years old and beat to hell when I got it but had the famous, in th US at least, 4.9 litre straight six. They're practically indestructible and it was the only salvageable thing in the truck when I finally had to scrap it.

pulse Report This Comment
Date: October 31, 2025 12:17AM

Mine was a 4.0. No idea if it had any enduring qualities, but definitely loved the car.

By the time I sold it, it had 130,000KM on it but was still running perfectly. I'd owned it for maybe 8 years, and it spent 4 of them parked on the street in front of my mother's house while I lived overseas. So it wasn't treated the best..

I think I traded it on a Mitsubishi Lancer (CJ/gen 9). That was a mistake. Fuck that car was just awful. We only had it for a year or so.

quasi Report This Comment
Date: October 31, 2025 08:41AM

Another legendarily durable straight six from the U.S. is the 4.0 developed by American Motors in 1986 and used in Jeeps until 2006. There are still a lot of them out there running around.

woberto Report This Comment
Date: October 31, 2025 08:57AM

This is what we did to that motor in Australia quasi.
Ford Falcon XR6-Turbo.

quasi Report This Comment
Date: October 31, 2025 09:08AM

I'm not sure of the size but Stellantis developed a twin turbo straight six a few years ago. My daughter-in-law just got a Wagoneer with one, her second one, but I haven't ridden in either one. I'll probably get the experience at Christmastime if plans pan out.