I’ve literally never NOT made a craigslist/facebook marketplace ad without explicitly writing “selling this _____ with ___ miles in as is condition”

I have no idea how you can comfortably accommodate people into the back row of that Frontier. The seatback is bolt upright and the rear legroom, while better than a CX5 (itself on the low end of the spectrum), is not saying much. Are you and your wife fairly short? Most midsize crossovers and SUVs are vastly roomier…

My friend told me a story of a Long Island Mazda dealer showing his family a then-new 1998 Mazda MPV (the old RWD based ones), my friend asked him what the small black button on the door panel did (it was actually just a plastic cover for a screw) and without so much as missing a beat the salesman told him it was the…

1st gen Cruzes are very nice driving cars, German-like compared to the 2012 Civic I ended up buying back in 2013. And I don’t doubt they hold up well with some decent basic maintenance, but coincidentally I was just coming back from lunch and saw one laying down a mean blue/white smoke screen out the tail pipe, bad…

You keep bringing up ease of parking which I find to be rather odd, as the Frontier has hands down the most pathetic turning radius of any modern vehicle I’ve driven.

Ah, it seems I’ve found the rational and reasonable part of this thread.

“But enjoy your overpriced Canyonero penis extension.”

Remind me again, who’s getting “triggered” here?

“I do so enjoy triggering the truck owners though. I’d enjoy it more if it wasn’t so damned easy.”

Seems like you’re the one flying off the handle here lmao

A lot of people miss this.  Americans like value, and for many, there is a sense of “buy by the pound.”  You get a lot of metal for your money with a crew cab half ton, and historically they hold up pretty well, hold value pretty well, and are easy/cheap to wrench on (this is becoming a bit less true with all the…

Hell yeah brother

“Pretty sure there’s just as much camping and trailering and towing and offroading and gardening going on the other side of the pond”

Top tip: there definitely isn’t

From what I’ve seen, there isn’t nearly the sort of DIY home improvement/landscaping culture in Europe, and especially not at the scale as in the US.

For me, I like older cars that actually feel interesting to drive, any and all new-ish sedans all feel the same and boring: my wife’s 2012 Camry, an F30 328xi I test drove, 2018 Mazda3 2.5 hatchback with a stick I test drove, the Golf Alltrack (stick shift) I tried out... all left me cold.  All felt really sterile and…

This article is precisely littered with exactly this nonsense, and she didn’t even describe how the truck drove in the entirety of her repetitive diatribe “big trucks aren’t for me”

Way to punch up lmao. Who are you trying to justify your midsize Frontier to? The people in the comments here that think all trucks are horrible?

I’ve rented and test driven Frontiers and they’re fine, on a per-dollar basis they are my favorite midsizer. Crude in a fun way, again, forgivable for how affordable they are…

The new bodystyle Rams with the coil sprung rear end really are insanely nice on the road, notably better than the current F150.  Between the suspension and the Hemi+8spd, it was the most fun/satisfying newer vehicle I’ve driven, car or truck.

“or rusted out junk they can fix in their garage”

This really only applies to David Tracy and a few guest contributors. The rest of the staff is hopeless at wrenching and/or doesn’t even own a car from what I can gather.

But you’re absolutely right.  You can count on almost any truck article to read as “trucks are bad…

The author accomplished an amazing feat by writing so many words just re-iterating over and over again how this isn’t the vehicle for her, and absolutely NOTHING about how the truck drove or how it performed aside from little Miss Thing not being able to reach the pedals very well.

Imagine reading a sports car review…

In rural (and frankly, working class urban) america the cheap-and-easy-to-fix nature of the older domestics is as relevant for private owners as it was for fleets.  Bob’s auto can slap on a new thermostat for $100, versus what that job looks like on disintegrating BMWs

Yup clean OBS are already gathering steam around here, anything rust-free is at a major premium (salt-belt Midwest). Borrowed my buddies K1500 step side to get mulch and a guy working there asked if it was for sale.

I kind of want to build a street truck GMT400 (single cab short bed), in lieu of a much pricier older…