“This will instantly turn your Jeep’s Death Wish to a Kill List.”

I was going to say: Take it to the crusher.

Autotrader shows a grand total of 3 Equators for sale. 0 of which are 4WD

I thought the required garb was white New Balance, tube Socks, Jean shorts, and a tucked-in Polo. Also a hat with the Corvette logo.

Pretty sure you’d get arrested for doing that in public there. Also for stealing the Suzuki trucklet.

Ooh. A rare Superleggera Postal Jeep. I bet that thing’s couple hundred pounds lighter than your standard letter carrier.

Well, I stand corrected.

Ever been to a Rural area? You can live 45 minutes from the nearest town of 500+ people. That is never going to be conducive to any kind of ride-hailing/sharing.  

“Extremely here”, sure to join the ranks of of other ‘why did I talk like that’ lexicon.

The bottom of the wing should be white.

Harley should get in on the Adventure bike market that’s growing nicely.

A couple years ago, I still had my ‘09 Outback XT (ie: the last good Outback). We got some heavy snow and hard freeze, so I took Obie for some drifty laps around the 2 acre ‘yard’. Wife was curious why there were so many tire tracks in places the cars don’t go.

From what I can find, It looks like GM sold off its last remaining stake. It appears VW has 20%, but I don’t see them even remotely considering this kind of vehicle. Something crazy could happen with another automaker trying to get a cheap entry into a new/reborn niche: “actually off-road capable small vehicle”. It…

When is the Soft-top expected?

Maybe GM still has a stake and can bring it over as a new Tracker? (if it could even sniff a passing crash safety test) 

Dual sport is where it’s at for me. My rural area is of course more suited to it, but I can’t imagine being comfortable riding daily in the city. If I want to commute to work on the bike, I get to ride 30 miles of gravel road, which is great fun for a commute.

The Transit Connect starts at the same price as the Ranger, and even that is going to have trouble competing with the F150 after rebates. How much can they undercut the Connect on the same platform? Probably not enough get sales and make a business case for it.

How many warning lights did you get? 

Exactly. As a furloughed gov't employee, I'm allowed to state and act on my own opinion, but am not allowed to express my opinion *as* a representative of the agency. 

Elizabeth Werth: Vintage race car Fluffer.