The engine was in a B5 chassis Passat. That Passat went from being the bigger Jetta to the cheaper audi A4 (actually between the A4 and A6 in size)

A small utility trailer is more useful than either.

I swear the people who profess to wanted these trucks are doing nothing but buying mulch. How much mulch are you buying!

“Think of it like an outback with an open bed.”

The fact that Ford is unwilling to sell vehicles without proper roofs is another reason they're going to fall behind Tesla.

yeah, for camping, put a top on the truck, towing the trailer. Six kids back there with bean bag chairs. My mom would sew them and put our names on ours and every one got their own color. Any kind of accident would have been horrible

Heh. I can guess exactly how your grandparents did it, seeing as I’ve spent literally thousands of miles riding in the back of a pickup. But just as realistically for the times, three in the pickup across the bench, a normal 5 in the Beetle and then a lap child in one of the two passenger seats would do it and keep…

Seems the most likely answer.

Growing up we had 6 kids. Road trips were done with a Pickup truck, a Mercedes sedan and a diesel Rabbit lol. We had a little convoy

Yeah, the wrangler and F250 really made this EV ownership story seem pretty pointless, let alone the perfect 4 vehicle garage.

This GIF is wonderful. Long enough for me to get an idea of what’s going on, form an idea about how it’s going to go sideways, and then be amused when my guess was wrong. I really got the full three-act experience in about four seconds.

I’ve really noticed the smaller numbers in the online forums. My bimmers, s2000, and Miata all had so much information available online. Things like proper wheel fitment were just givens. There doesn’t seem to be consensus on what fits the MR2 and that’s pretty frustrating. This all also makes me realize how much I…

what exactly about the 370Z is bad.  still looks pretty cool.  still handles pretty well.  still accelerates pretty well for a $40ish-k car.  only thing that needs help is cockpit technology.  And all I really want is CarPlay.

Love the light bar across the back straight off the early 90s 300ZX!

Same reason BMW changed course and dropped the Ultimate Driving Machine schtick. The enthusiast/infotainment-journalism/internet warrior segment is mostly too small, cheap, toxic, and unrealistic to bother with as a carmaker anymore. I’ve been guilty of this, so I’m not being hypocritical. Making the M3/M4 the…

How much is from the 370, which was a heavily reworked 350? How much of the electrical architecture is carry over? How much of the suspension points are the same? Engine? Trans? Please enlighten us as to why this is really old tech.........

Everyone on this site: “I want a fast, stylish-but-not-overstyled, 300-400hp car with RWD, a manual transmission, and relatively analog underpinnings. I also want it for cheap.”

it seems real risky to rely on one market segment to the exclusion of everything else.

“In an unreported letter going to Biden Monday, Democratic Senators Alex Padilla and Dianne Feinstein called on Biden”

Don’t most cars look like that after being street parked in NYC for a few months?