<![CDATA[PCH, Superpower Swap Showdown: Subaru'd Renault or Toyota'd Maserati? - Jalopnik Comments]]> <![CDATA[PCH, Superpower Swap Showdown: Subaru'd Renault or Toyota'd Maserati? - Jalopnik Comments]]> <![CDATA[PCH, Superpower Swap Showdown: Subaru'd Renault or Toyota'd Maserati?]]> PL 'barn find' pics? Yeah, I'll see that sheet metal.

I'm hell-hooked for ciccolina y sake...

SeanKHotay

]]> <![CDATA[PCH, Superpower Swap Showdown: Subaru'd Renault or Toyota'd Maserati?]]> Hands down the $17,600, reserve not met, Maser on another continent in barn find condition is the winner here. Plus, there's the added hell of knowing that once you get that $2500 JDM motive unit shoe horned in there, patch up the body work just right, re-do the entire interior and find all the proper exterior trim, you'll have a sweet, sweet ride. If you get that done before you go insane.

The 4CV is an awesome lookin little ride, though. Just not as much hell since the basic mechanicals seem to be sorted.

FЯeeMan is slowly cЯawling out of the new commenting system

]]> <![CDATA[PCH, Superpower Swap Showdown: Subaru'd Renault or Toyota'd Maserati?]]> My point is this everybody has a car that the purists say restore to stock condition but in some cases you have to do a swap if you want to keep the car.The thing is look at all the cars that are good but are pos and you can have a car that runs and has a decent engine in it. I'm for swaps and mods as long as you don't mess with the body ,that is what people buy cars for.

marc2068

]]> <![CDATA[PCH, Superpower Swap Showdown: Subaru'd Renault or Toyota'd Maserati?]]> Ciao, Hell-san!

Brian B

]]> <![CDATA[PCH, Superpower Swap Showdown: Subaru'd Renault or Toyota'd Maserati?]]> Ok, what clinched it was the fact that our man in Ariz, has, really done all the hard work. The Portugal deal, will take some serious heavy lifting just to get started.

MeDuh

]]> <![CDATA[PCH, Superpower Swap Showdown: Subaru'd Renault or Toyota'd Maserati?]]> Tough call man, tough call. French weirdness, with far too much power for its own good, or super sketchy deal from portugal, with retarded toyota power, the maser, actually looks kinda cool, odd for me to say. I think the resulting car would be a real something. So I think we'll go with that one. I still can't get over the 17 to 200+ horsepower conversion on the french car though.

MeDuh

]]> <![CDATA[PCH, Superpower Swap Showdown: Subaru'd Renault or Toyota'd Maserati?]]> Shouldn't a PCH Superpower Swap Showdown involve a French car with an Italian engine and vice versa?

bozoerrebbe

]]> <![CDATA[PCH, Superpower Swap Showdown: Subaru'd Renault or Toyota'd Maserati?]]> The Renault might actually see the road someday. And the sky, too, with that power to weight ratio.
So naturally, I voted for the Maserati.

biminitwst

]]> <![CDATA[PCH, Superpower Swap Showdown: Subaru'd Renault or Toyota'd Maserati?]]> @dculberson: Thank you for pointing that out. I guess I got "caught up in the moment".mmmmm flat black

SLR_BlowerMania

]]> <![CDATA[PCH, Superpower Swap Showdown: Subaru'd Renault or Toyota'd Maserati?]]> Both are kinky. Very kinky.

HoubaHouba!

]]> <![CDATA[PCH, Superpower Swap Showdown: Subaru'd Renault or Toyota'd Maserati?]]> No matter how French I may be, I cannot resist the sheer outrage the Mas would produce and therefore vote Italian.

franzouse

]]> <![CDATA[PCH, Superpower Swap Showdown: Subaru'd Renault or Toyota'd Maserati?]]> subie.

Tom

]]> <![CDATA[PCH, Superpower Swap Showdown: Subaru'd Renault or Toyota'd Maserati?]]> I giggled like a little girl when I first saw that Renauru a couple of months ago. But it's like Maymar said- the Toyota-powered Maserati is a special kind of sacrelige, sure to send purists into paroxisms of vapor lock. That, and it has to be noted that the Maserati trident is near-as-damnit to a pitchfork. This is one PCH that may give me pause for reconsideration, nanoseconds before I start smelling sulphur. Maserati FTW.

Hotrodelectric

]]> <![CDATA[PCH, Superpower Swap Showdown: Subaru'd Renault or Toyota'd Maserati?]]> I think a period-correct modified 4CV would be a cool car for vintage racing-- in a crazy, what-the-hell-are-you-doing-on-the-track-with-that-thing way--and the Subaru engine means that this one will only be legal for drag racing. Of course, with the engine out back, it should be pretty good at that, but you'll have a hard time getting it to go down the track straight, not to mention the problems you'll face should you ever try to go around a corner. I just wish the builder of this car had used the original swing axles instead of going for a VW Type 1 tranny. With that motor and stock axles, you'd be snapping half-shafts at every stoplight and dealing with unpredictable camber changes at every corner. Sweet. Yes, the Maserati is a beautiful car, and the Toyota motor means that purists will think you're worse than a child pornographer. But at least you'll have a Maserati. Try explaining to people why you're passionate about French cars and you'll see what I mean.

Armand Bengle

]]> <![CDATA[PCH, Superpower Swap Showdown: Subaru'd Renault or Toyota'd Maserati?]]> French-Fried Subaru gets my vote because I can see the whole car disintegrating in the mid air at about 80mph, with the rolling chassis still continuing on its journey...

akirachan

]]> <![CDATA[PCH, Superpower Swap Showdown: Subaru'd Renault or Toyota'd Maserati?]]> The maserati is the better looking car, but the 4cv gets me on price, and the fact it runs.

This comment from the seller also made me smile "Keep in mind there are enough parts in this car to build a pretty cool sand rail also if that would be more your style"

dohcspit

]]> <![CDATA[PCH, Superpower Swap Showdown: Subaru'd Renault or Toyota'd Maserati?]]> I vote 4CV, because even the normally hoontastic Subaru enthusiast community doesn't like twin-turbo Subaru engines, because they are a plumbing and vacuum-line nightmare.

Paul Y. can't think of a better, shorter handle

]]> <![CDATA[PCH, Superpower Swap Showdown: Subaru'd Renault or Toyota'd Maserati?]]> The Maser is currently at over $15k with the reserve not met... that's the kind of hell you can't just walk away from.

something_unique_and_descriptive

]]> <![CDATA[PCH, Superpower Swap Showdown: Subaru'd Renault or Toyota'd Maserati?]]> While the Maserati might allow a quicker entrance into hell, the humility of driving a French car would be eternal hell.

smokeydog001

]]> <![CDATA[PCH, Superpower Swap Showdown: Subaru'd Renault or Toyota'd Maserati?]]> @SLRSpeedshop: I do not think that's a sub-box. I believe that's an engine box. Two intercoolers (or radiators, or one of each) with radiator fans mounted on the front. The round items on the outer edges are air intakes. The amp-like device is a fan controller.

And yes, I will take the 4cv before I would ever touch the Maserati. The Maser would be prettier, but the 4cv just grabs me right. I'm hosed if I end up with a larger garage.

dculberson

]]> <![CDATA[PCH, Superpower Swap Showdown: Subaru'd Renault or Toyota'd Maserati?]]> I have a sneaking suspicion that the "Renault" is actually a VW Beetle with some Studebaker parts grafted on.

Triborough

]]> <![CDATA[PCH, Superpower Swap Showdown: Subaru'd Renault or Toyota'd Maserati?]]> What, is this Subaru powered frogrocket still around? I thought sure someone from the USMB [www.ultimatesubaru.org] would have bought it by now.

Smitty

]]> <![CDATA[PCH, Superpower Swap Showdown: Subaru'd Renault or Toyota'd Maserati?]]> @Murilee Martin: Wow.

And at $600 it still scares me!

TheBrewPub

]]> <![CDATA[PCH, Superpower Swap Showdown: Subaru'd Renault or Toyota'd Maserati?]]> at least the maserati would be cool if you ever completed it. i had a renault back in high school that i never could coax to run. french cars are hell

cats4rent

]]> <![CDATA[PCH, Superpower Swap Showdown: Subaru'd Renault or Toyota'd Maserati?]]> Hmmm ... let's have a look at that Maserati. Seller has no previous, no description of the car, and the photos are from the mythical Spanish / Maltese / Portuguese barn find collection. Is that in any way suspicious? Could it be a scam? Course not. Gets my vote.

jonrudd

]]> <![CDATA[PCH, Superpower Swap Showdown: Subaru'd Renault or Toyota'd Maserati?]]> The 4CV actually looks pretty tempting. Hey, it runs. You're practically done, right?

That said, the JDM mongo-6 in an Alfa is clearly more hellish. Fussy Japanese ECU + passionate Italian design = pain.

Mad_Science

]]> <![CDATA[PCH, Superpower Swap Showdown: Subaru'd Renault or Toyota'd Maserati?]]> @TheBrewPub: The Maserati was at $600 last night, when I wrote the post.

Murilee Martin

]]> <![CDATA[PCH, Superpower Swap Showdown: Subaru'd Renault or Toyota'd Maserati?]]> I've been back to this 3 times - I initially voted for the Maser, but the French thingy just looks so cool. I dunno.

DrJeffie

]]> <![CDATA[PCH, Superpower Swap Showdown: Subaru'd Renault or Toyota'd Maserati?]]> As long as the sub-box is included with the Renault ,I'm sold. The Maser's lack of discription and zero feedback leaves me too believe it's a scam..

SLR_BlowerMania

]]> <![CDATA[PCH, Superpower Swap Showdown: Subaru'd Renault or Toyota'd Maserati?]]> The Maser is 15K and hasn't hit reserve yet. If a car of unknown origin stored for many years with obvious neglect in another country (pardon me - continent) doesn't qualify for PCH, I don't know what will. That's without even applying Ms. Martin's engine swap!

TheBrewPub

]]> <![CDATA[PCH, Superpower Swap Showdown: Subaru'd Renault or Toyota'd Maserati?]]> @junkman: Nah those emails will be circulating the internet until our robot overlords crush us. Then they will continue sending the same email replacing the cars with skynet componets.

Froggmann

]]> <![CDATA[PCH, Superpower Swap Showdown: Subaru'd Renault or Toyota'd Maserati?]]> before you get all moist about suicide doors and boxer engines just consider for a moment the majesty of the Maserati 3500GT coupe and imagine the hell-like possibilities as you struggle to return it to original condition. AND it's in Porto!

rognbrow

]]> <![CDATA[PCH, Superpower Swap Showdown: Subaru'd Renault or Toyota'd Maserati?]]> The Mas will absolutely break you. No matter how much blood, sweat, tears and money you pour into it, you will lose.

brianddd

]]> <![CDATA[PCH, Superpower Swap Showdown: Subaru'd Renault or Toyota'd Maserati?]]> They both make my eyes hurt--I'm not voting today!

MeMikeYouNot

]]> <![CDATA[PCH, Superpower Swap Showdown: Subaru'd Renault or Toyota'd Maserati?]]> My God, man - just because you can, doesn't mean you should!!

Vintage Racer is out taking pictures

]]> <![CDATA[PCH, Superpower Swap Showdown: Subaru'd Renault or Toyota'd Maserati?]]> @Froggmann: That was my first thought too. Look at the seller's other items and you're probably right. Hopefully, they'll all get sold off so that my non-car friends can quit sending the Portugese cars in the barn thing that they've been barraging me with daily for the past year.

junkman

]]> <![CDATA[PCH, Superpower Swap Showdown: Subaru'd Renault or Toyota'd Maserati?]]> Maserati.
Of course, plugging a mass produced, robot assembled, Japanese motor into the engine bay of a hand crafted, emotively shaped, Italian touring car is like putting a trucker's cap on Monica Bellucci.

Because of this, half the hell you would experience would be tracking down (Nicholas Cage-like) all the matching serial numbers parts and reassembling them into a factory-authentic restoration that would make Gioacchino Colombo and the four original Maserati brothers proud. Well, maybe not Bindo.

graverobber- It says Loud Pipes Save Lives

]]> <![CDATA[PCH, Superpower Swap Showdown: Subaru'd Renault or Toyota'd Maserati?]]> Subaru/Renault all the way, because when you finally get it in driving condition, you'll just snap-oversteer to a tire-screeching, painful death.

Steel_ETC

]]> <![CDATA[PCH, Superpower Swap Showdown: Subaru'd Renault or Toyota'd Maserati?]]> A watercooled intercooled turbocharged 4-door suicide-doored Bug? I'm in.

thunder

]]> <![CDATA[PCH, Superpower Swap Showdown: Subaru'd Renault or Toyota'd Maserati?]]> A Subaru engine in a Renault is moderately funky, a Toyota engine in a Maserati is a sacrelige - right away it's the bigger hell. And, uhh, how many parts on the Renault are there to go wrong?

Maymar the technophobe

]]> <![CDATA[PCH, Superpower Swap Showdown: Subaru'd Renault or Toyota'd Maserati?]]> Masaradi, mainly because the otherone actually runs. Oh and BTW it looks like the Masaradi is one of the Portugese barn-cars. [www.intuh.net]

Froggmann

]]> <![CDATA[PCH, Superpower Swap Showdown: Subaru'd Renault or Toyota'd Maserati?]]> I just want the suicide doors, honestly.

A Strolling Lucida G Luxury Joyful Player

]]> <![CDATA[PCH, Superpower Swap Showdown: Subaru'd Renault or Toyota'd Maserati?]]> Suicide doored, boxered snailmobile for me, please.

LTDScott, Porcubimmer pilot

]]> <![CDATA[PCH, Superpower Swap Showdown: Subaru'd Renault or Toyota'd Maserati?]]> maserati, any of it in a car means its going to be PCH

nyoh-ohio

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