For the same reason DeMuro buys Land Rovers: reliable vehicles make bad Jalopnik / Youtube content.

No trans drain plug must be a b*tch. Looks like FCA eventually backed up on that. Even my Ram’s 8 spd has a drain plug, although servicing it has its own quirks. 

Selling a Lexus and keeping a rusty FC, dude you are not just in the jeep cult you are cardinal in the jeep cult. 

In today’s episode we discover that whenever Tracy says, “this is why I can’t have nice things,” he’s actually pointing at his own head.

I had a 4th Gen 4Runner for 13 years. Good truck.

Cancerous death-wobble Jeeps rather than smooth hassle-free Land Cruisers?

One might also say having 72 of the same vehicle is boring. The value of a comfortable, reliable daily cannot be overstated. Plus, more money for fun cars when you aren’t putting it into repairs. I don’t think it’s worth scaring yourself about costs for repairs that are likely to be few and far between.

Dude, what happened to you that when you come into possession of something nice, you react to it like a body rejecting a transplanted organ?!

Went Toyota 4runner a few years ago. Should have done it sooner. I'd be money ahead if I had skipped all of the previous non Toyota products. 

I would bet that this is better offroad than a stock 2002 Grand Cherokee. And more comfortable on and off road.

1997 Jeep Cherokee 4x4 automatic 0-60: 10.2
Source: https://www.motortrend.com/cars/jeep/cherokee/1997/1997-jeep-cherokee/

The Lexus seems to be so well-suited for service that if someone came to my house and said “Hey, I can help you fix your Jeep. I’ve been wrenching on my Land Cruiser for years” I’d probably turn them away.

If the ABS pump on this Lexus fails, I’m going to be spending over a grand to fix it.

because I can use that to haul oily junk from the scrapyard.

I owned a Sequoia from this era (same powertrain for the most part) and have an FJ Cruiser now. The serviceability is true across every Toyota product I’ve wrenched on. I would hug any Toyota engineer I meet.

I get it, it’s not for you because it’s not junk! No wait, I don’t get it.

Hopefully you won’t have the cost burden of ownership keeping you out of nice things for much longer, whenever you get around to reversing the oxidization process through inventive science. 

TLDR as I understand it: Buy cheap parts(and cars) over and over rather than buy once cry once.

My guess: “Far too reliable for my taste... boring, I need more mechanical breakdown adventures in my life”

Do yourself a favor and toss that baby into full sport mode so it tightens everything up which is very useful for emergency freeway maneuvers. Then select the PWR button next to the shifter for more aggressive shift points, which you will definitely feel as an improvement, and somehow with no loss of fuel economy. I…