Sure a phone is good for quick stuff, but when my hands get disgusting and I spend all day on the car I would 100% rather have a paper book to turn through. My phone’s battery is shit and pulling it out when working on a car over a long period of time is a recipe for the phone to get nasty and probably dropped. I…

I would not call the S2000 a derivative/clone of the Miata. It is just a different take on a 2-seat roadster.

It is built in Japan to Japanese safety standards.

It is not a kei car.

It is probably fine. 

Daihatsu crash ratings seem basically fine. It’s got the engineering weight of Toyota behind it, they know what they’re doing.

Ummm...that’s kinda the point of crumple zones. 

Rover teased a new Mini design, called the Spiritual, that would have stayed truer to the original vision of maximum space inside, minimal space outside. They were willing to set aside tradition in this, powering them with rear-mounted three cylinders and ditching the retro styling. If only BMW hadn’t tossed…

Perhaps not. Daihatsu is Japanese, not Chinese. Japan’s industry standards are much higher than China’s.

They were so close to naming it “Travis.”

I consider this a massive missed opportunity.

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Twenty years of inflation is a thing.

Wait. $34K. $34-damn-thousand NEW?! Custom ordered?

It’s a chore, no doubt, but there are definitely some advantages. Control, for one; you get a lot better engine-braking going downhill with a load with a manual. And a low-speed “granny” gear is a wonderful thing to have for inching around. Durability is also a factor; automatics are getting better, but they still…

Certainly not more than what a late model F-150 could do without breaking a sweat. Hell a Ranger can tow 7.5k lbs which could (probably) tow a light racing set up.

I like a manual in a fast car for obvious reasons and even though I don’t off-road myself I can see how it would be useful in that environment. But I don’t know why anyone would want a manual in a work truck. Maybe these are nicer to use than some of the ones I’ve driven but big manual trucks just wear me out in stop…

There are a lot of people who believe if you want to tow reliably you should stay under like 60% of the factory tow rating.... Yeah, a 5.3 Silverado from ‘99 would handily tow this rig though if it’s a fairly light enclosed trailer and not an entire spare car.

I’m happy the guy got a nice 20-yr-old truck, but...  I realize that an F250 from 1999 is probably smaller than today’s Ranger, but isn’t it overkill to tow a 2500lb car with a 7.3L diesel? 😀

That’s to shift it into 4wd.  It’s an electronic (push-button) transfer case.

it’s funny how often i know who the writer is just by glancing at the headline of the story... if it has “epic” or “holy grail” or “jeep” or some combination like that... david tracy! if it is something like “How To Turn A McRib Into A Car”... jason torchinsky! :D

I was just stunned to see a heavy duty diesel truck for under $35K. Now that’s about $54K in 2020 dollars so it still seems a bargain in the world of $80K HD trucks.

that was definitely a steal. considering the love affair the bro’s have with these trucks, I suspect they could have asked sticker at roughly 35k or perhaps even more and got it pretty quickly. The lack of people knowing how to drive a stick maybe being the only box not ticked in some people’s case.