Some fancy calculatin’ must’ve been done to find the correct proportions for proper balance.

No, I pity the guy who can’t organize his thoughts enough to get them all in the first post.

And I pity the automotive journalists who thought they would be writing about those sleek, sexy cars.

I pity all the automotive designers who got into the craft thinking they were going to be creating sleek, sexy sedans and sports cars. I doubt any aspired to making stumpy boxes look less like stumpy boxes.

No, I won’t be seeing them everywhere. Or, to be more precise, I won’t be recognizing them. All crossovers look the same to me: equally uninteresting. 

“ThJeep Cherokee XJ will always be the greatest Jeep of all time...” Yet when it first came out the Jeep purists scoffed that it was trash because it was unibody.

Too often the relationship they want to establish is an adversarial one. 

The usual first step with a box truck (or van or whatever) is to insulate (a couple of inches of extruded polystyrene will do), add opening windows, and one or two roof vent fans.

Welcome to my planet. I’m one of the ever-growing numbers living full time in self-converted vans, box trucks, school buses, ambulances, and so one. This one is a “Meh” example.

After binge watching “Matt’s Off Road Recovery” YouTube channel, that should probably read, “The whole idea is to make people THINK they can go as far into the middle of nowhere...”

I have vague (or, I guess, totally erroneous) memories of other GM cars having hide-away wipers.

But if a vehicle sits for a couple of decades in that climate without being driven, it’ll never really dry out. Nesting material acts like a sponge, holding moisture and rodent urine, which is probably as damaging as road salt. But at least this FC isn’t covered with moss.

“I’m a sucker for dirt cheap things.” And for machines well along in the process of turning into dirt.

“Cars out West hold up better” when “out West” means the arid regions, not the Pacific Northwest.

1952. Do the rules allow me buy at 1952 prices? Because all the decent cars from that year are now six- and seven-digit collectables.

Several times, at sunrise or sunset, I’ve been stuck behind semis with stainless steel doors that WEREN’T quilted. Nearly blinded me. Meanwhile, it’s kind of fun following highly polished tankers with convex tails. Whee, look at me!

This is how my bank account gets overdrawn. No extravagant purchases, just a bunch of small ones.

And the “I pay X taxes” crap is common among the rich who believe their wealth buys them exemption from the law. 

So many of those who claim to support law enforcement actually mean they support the law being enforced on other people—usually minorities.

So, they want to be classy and want folks to know they’re following a Grand Wagoneer instead of someone else’s box. Rather than plaster the name across the back like an insecure teen, they could’ve given the rear end a distinctive, compelling, Jeep-evoking design. Eh, but that would be hard.