Dear lord, just look at that packaging!

See also: The Cizeta-Moroder V16T. (Yes, that Moroder).

The Crossfire looks good enough to sell. You don’t lose out on the “I’m not buying somebody else’s project” discount which would apply to the others. If you keep it, you’ll just be worrying about the future cost of some rare part when you could be spending that money on parts that another car needs right now. The…

The image is associated with the brand. Usually, the best way to appeal to dramatically distinct segments is with a different brand. Just like Audi appeals to boy-racers, Škoda to families, &c even though they’re mostly made out of the same parts.

Playing KSP makes you look at designs like the Ekranoplan very differently.

Playing KSP makes you look at designs like the Ekranoplan very differently.

Mitsubishi is such a shame. Their brand is really strong on 4x4, they have a long history of SUVs, and in some major markets they were in the first wave of volume hybrid sales.

Yes! But the Bedford VAL takes us to the Italian Job, and thence back to Carrozeria via the Miura. It’s the circle of life.

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I like the honesty; the bare plywood and visible stencils show where the raw materials come from. This is artistic integrity.

Nowadays if a Ford exec said “2 sizes of pickup isn’t enough! We need something smaller than a Ranger, larger than a Fiesta, but built on a family car platform!” they would be laughed at. I’m amazed that Ford kept on selling these on so many slightly-different platforms in different markets.

If your daily driving involves transporting bulk materials (much more than a few 20kg bags) then maybe you’re in the 0.1% and you genuinely need that long bed. Congratulations!

Personally, I just want some room for tools, a bike, or a couple of dogs. Sometimes I haul a few bags of gravel or sand, but if I ever needed 2…

The problem is that 0.1% of the population have a genuine need to transport longer/bulkier objects, and they will loudly insist that the Bronco-bakkie is no good, and then the other 99.9% of the population won’t buy it either.

Good point. Also the jerrycans - that setup looks good on Instagram, but it’s no good for your shoulders as you try to lift a couple of 20kg jerrycans onto some kind of detachable rack which is raised and half a metre inboard of an awning - or do you lift the whole rack with two full jerrycans?

The price/consumption balance may have shifted a little over time, but (this being Jalopnik) not all of us have shiny new 2020 cars. A few-years-old diesel is still pretty frugal.

Are you sure you want to hang the farm-jack so close to the body like this? As soon as things start rattling around offroad, the lifting arm of the jack will dent that beautiful paintwork, and nowadays nobody wants their offroader to look like it’s been through an actual adventure.

I came here to post Layer Cake. 4x98 wins.

For me, the air suspension is the biggest worry on these. If it’s had proper springs fitted, I can sleep soundly at night. It’s like a Cummins which has had the Killer Dowel Pin fixed, or a Porsche with a fix for the IMS bearing: The general reputation might scare off other buyers, so you could get a slightly better…

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