Yeah—4 cylinder manuals were around, but when I bought my ‘97 back in 2000 I couldn’t find a 4.0 manual Up Country here in Colorado where, at the time, 40-50% of the vehicles on the road seemed to be Cherokees. I am glad—gently putting the front tires on an obstacle and just giving it the gas until you made it over…

Even in the XJ manual 6 cylinders were extremely rare. And (commence the burns) autos, with their torque converters, are better off road.

I hate the directly overhead ones. This looks better.

I hate the directly overhead ones. This looks better.

It’s no P-38 in the twin engined space, but it doubles as a blender.

Good, simple engineering right here. You could try to seal up this flap, but more reliable to give it a solid overhang to keep all but the hurricaniest weather out.

What should they call it?

“if you need a rotor or windshield wiper motor, yoooooou can find it at Carquest”.

When I totaled my e39 540i 6spd a friend with an e30 and an ailing 2.5 considered dropping the $700 salvage on my car to pull the engine.

Pike’s Peak! Except you have to get out at like 5:00 in the morning and be trapped on a crazy ass mountain all day and have a rock flung from an over-steering semi break your Jeep’s window and get sunburned. Yeah!

Good question. Because I got rid of my XJ years ago, I have an aging A3 hatchback that will need replacing soon, and I like small 4 cylinder hatchbacks. And like a lot of people I am considering a compact crossover for my next car. A Trailhawk with leather and heated seats (I am in Colorado) is like $31k, and that GLA…

Here’s a secret. In Texas democrats votes don’t count. But if you only vote for the dude with a R next to his name, picked by the more involved party elites, your Republican vote doesn’t count either.

Very good. Notice how, unlike a jeep ad, they're not blasting through at 45 mph?

My god man—you have an ugly sister.

Former XJ owner too. Rubicon Express lift, up country package w/LSD, 31” Procomp MTs. Whenever I see these reviews “not a Wrangler” I get a little wistful. Everyone said that about my XJ but I went everywhere they did (except when they would do silly stuff like wrap their mega articulating axles over a single boulder…

There’s your problem. I had one for a total of a month back in the 2000s before I over steered it off a cliff. Never got to experience upkeep, so I bought an X5 with this (awesome) motor. $700 every time I went to the shop. Which was a lot.

That’s funny, because I was comparing it to my 21 horsepower Vespa GTS250 ie. I.e. a 400 pound scooter with 80% of the power.

The subie. When I moved to the mountains of Colorado years ago these (and oddly AMC Eagles were everywhere. A great example that if you build the right engineering solution and provide it to an audience that needs it it will sell.

I saw the title and though “crap—Patrick has only been back in Texas a couple of months.”

Time ghost: the original 1950s car car was only 25 years old when the first movie came out. That Fleetwood is probably older than that now.

Do we get 400 hp Czech hatches now? Are the greeks the reason why not? Cuz I wanna know, dammit!