Child with a parent who owned a manual Ranger, and can support the feelings you undoubtedly went through.

So much credit card.

This thing is awesome... it's like a bite sized Land Rover.

I'd like to see how something like a Smart car or a Scion IQ would do if they had better handling dynamics, because really, they're the closest thing to the original Mini that we have today. My guess is that without the right branding, they wouldn't do too well. A TRD tuned IQ would be labeled as just another badge…

Swap the drive train for a 5.0 Coyote and call it a C-Max Power?

My guess is that they had the rollbar and based their dimensions on fitting that, which made it enormous.

One point a lot of the people responding are missing was her determination to make herself more valuable. She went from $37,000 to $51,000 a year in salary within three years, and has continued to increase her salary since then.

2004 for me.

I was thinking the same thing. A doorway pull up bar and a set of gymnastics rings to hang from it (for dips) will set you back $50-100, and you can get a full body workout with no other equipment. This would be more than adequate, especially for beginners who likely can't do a single pull up.

INTJ here too!

I've seen this statistic around before, and it stems from a 4% withdrawal rate throughout retirement. Withdrawing 4% would allow you $32k on $800k in savings to live on. Meanwhile, the assumption is that you'll earn ~7% on your investments which will recoup your withdrawal and account for any decrease in value of…

I've seen this driving around the Chicago suburbs before... it looks even meaner rolling down the street than it does parked on the side of the road.

Are these the world's first doggles?

World's first doggles?

I still think this would have been a more popular choice for people who cared about cars if they offered the manual with AWD. It'd be in rare company as an affordable car with those attributes. The Impreza/WRX is the only other one I can think of off-hand.

A 1G DSM style bump would look infinitely less janky than just dremeling a hole into the hood like they did.

Could be a result of the sun behind him too, would definitely make the brake lights less visible.

Except for the fact that you're talking about the white car... which does appear to be a C107.

Looks like an Acura Legend to me.