The initial pushback from Toyota stans (weird to say - but they were all Tundra owners) on this was weird. Early on, a surprising number of folks couldn’t get themselves to believe Toyota made a fundamental error and looked for every way to blame the owner. Saw everything from bad gas to not break in period to over…

Maybe, but because I’m the type of person who notices this nonsense, two of the now-owners of Wagoneers came from very new Tahoes (I think 2021 or so). So maybe they’re lease swappers getting a new ride, but my guess is they could afford just about whatever they want and this is it. 

It is shocking how many $70-90k Wagoneers I see in my life now. It immediately shot to the top of the list for SUVs desired by the fancy suburban house-wife. There are three at my daycare drop off every morning. Who knew there was such a demand for a Jeep this expensive. 

A four second Google search shows many forum conversations about charges for certain colors. Here’s one from 2005.

Could be, for sure. It comes across that way.

It’s definitely crazy. Ten years ago a scrappy Miata was $2,500. Sometimes $1,500. I saw nice NAs for $4k all day long. Now a pretty ratty NA with rusted out rockers someone wants $6k for. 

I laughed at salty bitch. Indeed.

Coming from a 2015 poverty spec Subaru Forester, the base model has a list of features that would be shocking to me. Lol. All I care about is adding the second motor, which at $3,300 is steep, but keeps it under $40k. Barely.

I think what equalized the playing field in the 60-90s was unreliability. There were always dominant cars, but back then the dominant cars were unreliable and you could count on 4-6 failures a year. Now, the dominant cars are ridiculously reliable - maybe 1 mechanical failure a year. But maybe none. So the dominant…

Huh. Here I am suddenly considering a freaking Chevy. That’s a nice looking car with tons of space inside that’s reasonably priced. It’s reasonably priced for a non-EV vehicle. My wife and I have been looking at CR-Vs and RAV-4s and they are routinely in the $35-40k range. Even if you added the second motor for AWD,…

And expanding the grid, which will be necessary, will lead to or be done by thousands of Americans with good jobs making good wages. Good, blue collar jobs that republicans allegedly love. 

My EV experience is limited, just my dad’s Spark EV. But if you put that in eco mode the regenerative braking was dialed up to 11 and you basically didn’t even need to use the brakes for normal driving. I always wondered if it was smart enough to also trigger the brake lights when it did that. You didn’t even need to…

But... Max didn’t say “RBR doesn’t understand how to build a car.” That’s clickbait nonsense. He said they don’t understand what the current problem is with their car. That’s... different. Whether or not its true is up for some debate. You could have written an interesting article speculating whether the issue is due…

It’s sad that Jalopnik’s coverage of F1 has trickled to almost nothing in the last few years. But it’s tragic that whenever we do get F1 coverage, it’s from this author. Who must hate F1. Or find it elitist. Or god only knows what. But every article Bradley writes about F1 is full of needless snark and poorly informed…

It all depends on how bad you want an absurdly clean, rare, but otherwise rather mundane five-door hatch that’s 35 years old. I can’t really imagine there being that many of these out there in this shape with this set of improvements. Everything looks tidy. It’s probably a 1 of 1, basically. And I bet it’s an absolute…

SEJ? I actually tried. But the woods behind my house are swampy, and it basically lodged itself in muck. Day 1 I had a rope around the neck and then shoulders and it was no use. Couldn't get it unstuck. So, the solution when the smell became bad enough was to cover it in 200lbs of chicken coop lime. Definitely helped. 

This is why autonomous taxis are fantasy for the foreseeable future. There are way, way too many variables that a human brain knows instinctually but an AI brain cannot possibly be trained to recognize and understand all of them.

I am just so relieved and proud of Ron DeSantis for solving literally every single problem Florida has before concentrating on this. Because that’s surely the only explanation for spending even 11 seconds coming up with this brainbuster of an idea.

RV’ing/trailering is mind-boggling to me. I’ll never get it.

The Mariner/Escape thing is hilarious. My dad was always a CR subscriber, and the car reviews always seemed suspect.