Dodge: Please take the shipping covers off

Agreed - I cannot stand Mr. Regular’s inane rambling and was disappointed to see that’s all this was.

Ughh, I was looking to actually read something, not click to a regular cars reviews embedded video that I refuse to watch. Why not just name these RCR posts or something?

Depends.  Is it Truck Month?

80,000 dollar trucks are objects i will never need or understand

That is perhaps the WORST film technique that I have ever seen.

I mean, can't just about any car do almost any task a small family needs?

Best explained in 1929 by Grossmann in his work, The Law of Accumulation and Collapse of the Capitalist System, capitalism’s fatal flaw is that, unchecked and unfettered, it will divide wealth in such a way that workers will, eventually, be unable to afford the goods they produce. At that point, the businesses they…

Don’t worry. the lower middle class is more than willing to spend 35-55k on a car and take out a 8 year loan on it.

What in the world is even middle class in America anymore? I feel like to have a comfortable middle class life and not live in the boonies, you need to be making 200k+ household... And to truly afford a 50k car, you need to be making 200k. Your house shouldn’t be more than 3 times your yearly income and your cars…

Let's just call it what it is: a car mortgage.

at some point maybe corporate America will realize selling $35-55k cars is difficult if there is no middle class

Was onboard until... outback?

at some point maybe corporate America will realize selling $35-55k cars is difficult if there is no middle class

Bravo, man(woman)! Doin’ it right. I mean, if anything, buying someone else’s project forces you to go over everything.

I have acquired a ‘56 F100 that was someone’s homebrew project. Many aspects are good (body is largely clean, all panels are there, good-ish paint, clean frame, good engine) but the quality of the mechanical work was atrocious, and I had almost no documentation of what was actually in it. So I’ve had to learn all that

Maybe a totaled BMW and a blown WRX engine/trans?

If that sort of thing is important to you, this is not the vehicle for you.

VW TDI transplant then. How 'bout that?