This is great advice except... He doesn’t actually have $60k. He just thinks a bank will lend it to him.

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There were lots of hot hatches made. The great majority of them never came to these shores.

This is an amazingly well sorted car. Kudos. 

You could do what i did when i sold my 2016 2dr GTI. Get an Alltrack (and bonus you can make it a GTI wagon for cheap)
I purchased an alltrack, swapped over plaid interior, GTI brakes, gave it coilovers. And just a tune gets it up to GTI power at about 230hp. Plan to keep my wagon for a while. In the cargo area you can…

Most of the reccommendations do not actually afford him more space, they are either sedans or fastbacks.

Bonus points for both thin-blue-line and dont-tread bumper stickers. 

The GTI Mk7.5 with the Clark Plaid interior is always the answer.

why not a GMC motorhome?

Why? At a minimum 3-hour round trip each day, it’s not like you’d be spending any time there in the first place

“My Brutal Commute Is Killing My Cars! What Should I Buy?”

Why do people subject themselves to a 75-mile one way commute? The sheer amount of time lost commuting is just staggering.

I never liked the Sport Trac. I don’t like short beds, and this one always bothered me more than any other. It might be the proportion of cab to bed length.

Maybe people are still buying them because they are informed consumers that understand that the models they are buying are not vulnerable like the older models that are being stolen. Maybe, you know, consumers decided that they should opt for the models with immobilizers.
My Ioniq 5 is not at risk of the same exploit…

For me it would be a car that is not made yet but could be. It has to be a wagon, it needs to be fun to drive, and id like it to be PHEV. VW makes a new GTE with 60mi EV only rang and 268hp from its 1.5T. But they dont put it in the Wagon just in the hatch. If they made this car as a wagon but with the 2.0L from the…

Probably a Singer 911.

I think a Porsche Panamera GTS Sport Turismo would be the vehicle I could be happy driving forever. Sports car power, wagon space for the family and looks amazing. #wagonlife

Obviously, Jon Voight’s LeBaron.

Kia Track’ster concept.
250hp AWD 2 door Kia soul. Up front looked more or less like the soul we know and love(?) but look at this rear! Thats a HOT hatch if you ask me. And today 250hp might not be a lot, but this concept is from 13 years ago.