Pick the SV for tires with classic SUV sidewall and luscious 1980s style Japanese velour.

Mine’s a “Russian rebuild” special. Was wrecked in a previous life and slapped back together with an RS4 front bumper and lights. But she’s a strong runner with a good maintenance history, the heated seats work, and I got it for a good price to handle winter-tank duty.  What I really want to try is some ice racing.

Yessir. I’m the freak praying for a bunch of snow to commute through. Stick shift +Torsen Quattro AWD+fresh snow tires

Ah, I was searching the comments for someone to say this, and was not surprised that it was you!

That’s freaking awesome. Did you weld up that bumper?

I was just at a friend’s cabin this weekend and they’ve got an old Samurai on tractor tires for getting around their acreage.

Just buy a 4Runner. If you look at pricing of Land Cruiser Prados overseas, we actually get a pretty good deal on our 4Runner which has a few cool extra features (sliding rear glass mostly), but misses out on the full-time 4WD transfer case in any trim other than the Limited which has compromised approach/departure…

Destroying a country with one of the highest literacy rates and advanced womens’ rights and turning it into Somalia 2.0 versus a guy that says some mean things but has managed to make progress towards peace with North Korea.... what am I missing here?

Yeah, I shared video from a Hillary interview on ABC that happened right as the news broke that Ghaddafi had been captured and killed, and her response is to cackle maniacally. “We came, we saw, he died!” She was a large force behind the interventionist policy of the US while head of the US State Department under…

“a well tuned carb setup is just as good”

No, it really isn’t.

Worse cold weather start up, less precise a/f control at each individual cylinder (comparing MPFI to carb), worse fuel economy (have to tune richer to avoid overly lean conditions on any one cylinder), and once you get to the benefits of ignition/timing…

Yep. Taking a previously fuel injected car and regressing it to a carb (V8 upgrade or not) wreaks of short cuts, and makes me question where else the previous owner took the easy way out.

Sure, FWIW mine’s a 3rd gen with the excellent 3.4L 5VZ-FE

I wonder about payload as well.  That’s been a Wrangler short-fall for the guys doing overlanding loadouts.  It’s an SUV that prioritizes articulation from the factory (read: softer springs).  I’m assuming the pickup version has a stiffened up rear end.

I think this will be an incredible seller as well.  I see a ton of perfectly clean JKUs (4 doors) in the well to do suburbs, and we all know about how well 4 door crew cab half tons with short 5.5 foot beds sell.  This is the logical melding of the two.  I’m just curious to see what the tow ratings are like.

Why?

No I’m definitely on the right site bub.

On the 3.0L V6s made 3 decades ago?  Sure.

Cars aside,

Anything resembling an intelligent response, counter-argument or cogent thought to share? Or are you limited to the “LOL u R dumb!” script? You enjoy the US destabilizing countries across the globe and then having some crazy post-menopausal psychopath cackling about it?

Well aside from the fender rot, what you really need to concern yourself with are the shock towers and trailing arm mounts.  make sure to keep those washed off and ideally oil-undercoated.

I never could understand drum-brake hate.  In the salt belt, they are priceless in that you never have rotors rusting out or calipers freezing up.