This looks AWESOME! In 2-3 years time, one will be mine!

We could solve 90%+ of this pain by using less trucking and more rail transport. Especially on the long haul routes. Then again, our rail networks are seriously overloaded!

Pretty much every time I’ve been on that stretch of 130, there’s someone in an expedition doing roughly 70mph in the left lane slowly passing someone in the right lane doing 68-69. Once I am past those pokey people (usually on the right) I drop the rental car hammer and hit the speed limit or 5-10 over. In my…

This. I routinely get stuck behind one doing 66 trying to pass the one doing 65 uphill. Then I finally get around and find it’s another Prius blocking the left lane and the trucker is riding its ass.

Walk past any rental lot in the world and see where many Cherokees, Grand Cherokees, and to a lesser extent Wrangler Unlimiteds are going. The Wrangler Unlimited holds its value well and I just heard that one of my customers spent $12K lifting his. I was shocked that he spent that much on lifting a solid-axle vehicle.…

FIFY: awesome that old men with LARGE savings accounts and mad engineering skills build these things.

Eh, the Russians did it too. And did it better.

Wow! What a story. Thanks for sharing!

I hear you. My dad just traded in his ‘04 Sierra Duramax/Allison with 440K miles on a ‘15 LTZ Duramax/Allison truck. In 440K miles, it needed new injectors once and that was at 433K.

Yeah — take a conglomerate (GM) which has middling reliability ratings (but is improving) and smoosh it together with FCA which ranks dead-ass last in almost all reliability ratings on both new cars and old cars. Sounds like a recipe for disaster.

Wow, impressive bit of vehicle there! Russia never ceases to amaze/stupify/delight me. The sheer vastness and uninhabited parts of it are crazy.

I agree. I just have to scrub my leather in the middle of the night now. My 2 year old son and 2 month old daughter generate lots of detritus.

I agree. I just have to scrub my leather in the middle of the night now. My 2 year old son and 2 month old daughter generate lots of detritus.

While I think the new JGC looks great, I got left on the side of the road in a rental with 3k miles on it. Check engine light solid and then an engine shutdown.

Sorta-Kinda looks like an IRS mustang from 1992. Sleeper quotient here is high. Still, $15K US for someone else’s 23 year-old project is CP in my book. Even if it was finished 9 years ago.

With the GIF above, it’s really interesting to see how much the 7 has grown over the years. Almost like an American of the same vintage! (American here.)

I doubt it. I’ve driven the crosstrek XV and was woefully unimpressed with it. Interior was cheap, it had Zero power and I felt like I had to continually flog it to deal with traffic and uphills. The 3.6R Outback is pretty good but still suffers from the interior quality issues of the Crosstrek.

For contrast, she has a…

Great idea! Except she’d notice if I pulled into a Subaru dealer and immediately bolt. Unfortunately the tired old jokes about Subaru still ring true to her. (That and I’d probably have to drive the underpowered heap at times and I’d rather take a solidly swift kick to the testicles.

Lots of good advice here. Credit Unions are phenomenally good at auto finance. When I bought my latest Land Cruiser, I paid cash. Then I was talking to my banker at the CU and got a 1.65% loan on it. I can make more than 1.65% over the life of the loan with that $60K. I have good credit but they were offering that…

Sadly the US doesn’t want these products. We want SUVs and more of them. Oh, and SUVs that get 30mpg and have 400hp. Can you bend the laws of physics and make that happen???