Exactly my point. Thanks!

As a current $80K Toyota owner, I must disagree with your reliability diagnosis. That and pretty much every car magazine worth its salt still has Honda (minus mid-00 transmissions) and Toyota miles above American vehicles in reliability, resale value, and safety.

I agree — Toyota makes pretty damned great SUVs (I own a Land Cruiser) but I likely won't ever own one of their cars. Lexus, sure. Toyota, nope.

People consider the Q400 unsafe? That's a phenomenal airplane. Comfortable (in United guise) and just as fast as its turbofan competition. With my noise-canceling headset in, I can hardly tell the difference.

The Top Gear Geoff of flight.

I disagree but maybe the cops here in CO are better than FL... I've been pulled over by unmarked police cars on my motorcycle. Here in Colorado, if it's a state police car it'll have black and white plates with CSP on them. If it's a local smoky, he'll have GVT on his tag (GVT for government.)

I've been in technology sales for most of my career and in sales management too. (Back to an individual now at a startup but that was for more fun.)

I think your license plate makes this all the better. Nothing like a little self-deprecating humor! Well done.

The least reliable vehicle I've ever owned was a 2001 Dodge Durango I bought to replace my 1993 Chevy S-10. My S-10 (notoriously unreliable) had 182K miles on it when I traded it on my brand new Durango with the 4.7L V8 and 7 miles. Christ, was that a mistake.

Great option. Honda reliability, more luxury, and reasonably decent retained value. I had a coworker (in sales) who puts 60-70K/year on a vehicle. Drives RDXes only. Nice enough, cheap, and reliable.

Recently ranked by JD power as the least reliable car brand in America, FCA would not be my choice. That and no thank you to a First Year Chrysler model. Lots of problems with the 9-speed.

On your test drive take the XV uphill. They're miserably underpowered with the CVT. Of course I live in Colorado so most naturally aspirated things feel slow uphill. The XV more so than many.

Mmmmuira!

So much win on this page. I've been clicking the star LOTS.

I've started to see quite a few of these on the road lately. Definitely not as many as say Tacomas or F-150s but they're starting to pop up. Damn they look good.

Underpowered and Fugly. And from the era where Subaru thought absolutely everything needed to be two-tone. The green/beige LL Bean outbacks I constantly see trolling the metro-Denver roads almost make me hurl.

F-Yes. I'm going to walk out into the garage and give mine a hug right now. It's definitely not *that* badass but I do love it and am constantly shocked with what it can do — both on road and off.

Wow — that has to take the cake for 'worst day ever.'

What about Nikola Tesla's wireless ionosphere power transmission inventions...Just saying — It could happen.

That is sad — as a native (ex-patriate) Texan, it's probably worse there than on the coasts. Texans understand 3 things: the F-series, MB, and Ferrari. Them other braynds? Why didn't you get a Ferrari? It's fayster!