Thats not really a fair way to compare things though, with you doing all the labor for “free”. If you calculate up what it would have cost a shop to do those rebuilds and replacements. With my experience with subarus what you described would have been 5-6k$ after parts and labor. So now you have a 7000$ car with 130k…

Modern Japanese cars sadly aren't the same as they were 20 years ago. Nissan, Honda have drivetrain issues. I will never buy a Nissan after they introduced the horrible CVT

Here it is, in all its glory.

Want a shoveled out spot? Get a shovel and shovel out your own. 

Clarkson’s Farm was fantastic. Clarkson was the perfect foil for our collective ignorance about where our food comes from and what the people who produce it have to go through to do their jobs.

I mourn what has become of it, at least toyota kept the theme with the 4runner. Iv’e crossed all types of terrains and creeks on my Pathfinder, and taken it half around mexico, you can feel how solid they were and the only problem i had was a spark plug that was pushed too deep, got that fixed and is so smooth now,…

Agree. My girlfriend lives out “on an empty country road”, and it’s that attitude that makes the moderate bit of trailering we do much harder and scarier than it needs to be. I feel bad for the working farmers who have to take their tractors to the roadways. Every turn, narrow bridge crossing, or blind hill/rise in…

Still feel sad about the loss of Sabine Schmitz. The Queen of the Nurburgring will never be replaced. Vale.

Yeah, I definitely feel the same, I hate driving anymore. I never used to, I feel like a switch went off in the last few years that made people even more aggressive and entitled. I used to have a 45 minute drive to work for a few years and it was largely uneventful and boring. Now I can’t even make a simple trip for…

My Uncle has one in mexico, payed about 8k out the dealer 3 years ago. I was trying to buy one 2 years ago and got to drive about 4 of them, i liked it a lot, my only problem is all the cheap plastic and materials, which put me off. But hey it’s a cheap car. decided to go with a good old 2001 Pathfinder, the last of…

Thats what they tried to do at first, but the farther you go into the series the more they leaned into the ‘buy 3 cheap cars and do challenges’ bit, which did frequently reuse TGUK ideas, but often with older American cars rather than older European ones and of course a different set of personalities to bounce the…

I never thought I would say this but I’m starting to want speed cameras and redlight cameras. I can’t believe that I’m coming around to the idea, but people have gotten so much worse.

The road is WAY more dangerous. More cars, more people with less training, way more distractions, and the big one: so many people think they are kings of the road. Small infractions stopped being enforced and they gave people an inch and they took 20 miles.

I really liked James May OMIJ a lot, but I couldnt get into the India season.

I’m 1 year older than you with no kids. not your imagination. I believe its a culmination of things - I’ve said this pre-pandemic (someone else eludes to this below) but modern cars give a false sense of security’s. Seems like cops don’t really issue speeding citations anymore - at lease not 10 over.

I used to live in the south and the roads were downright scary. Most people walk around all day being angry about something and that translates into the driving, especially the bro dozer trucks that won’t hesitate to run someone off the road.

You sound like me and my wife. She loves his show and we just finished it watching it again actually since they announced their renewal.

I grew up on an “empty country road.”

Same. I actually look forward to new season of Clarkson’s Farm than another Grand Tour special. Who knew that a farming show could be so good.