“Now let’s drive the Toyota to compare the two,” the salesman suggested. Around 2 minutes later and a mile and a half down the road I noticed the salesman’s facial expressions change and he started to anxiously squirm. After a short but uncomfortable silence he meekly confessed, “You know what? This is actually a…

After the Thunderbird (and a couple of other cars) I bought a Cougar, a ‘97 V8. It was plagued with transmission problems, though.

In ‘97 the Grand Prix looked spectacular. Since they didn’t change the design for over a decade it’s hard to see it, now, as anything but a meh fleet car.

I had a ‘97 Maxima for 20 years and sent it to the junkyard in 2018 due to catastrophic structural rust and many other problems. It was a backup car for most of it’s life but still had nearly 400k miles on it. It had a manual, too, which is probably the biggest reason I kept it for so long.

When I was a kid, I arbitrarily chose Ford as my brand, mostly because everyone else picked Chevrolet and I didn’t want to be like everyone else. It was the 80's, Japanese cars were out of the question, Mercedes sold overbuilt unobtanium and the highest ambition of a plebeian like myself was to one day own a Cadillac…

I’m sure plenty of Skyhawks have had LS swaps. It’s on the same H-body platform as the Monza and Vega, which are popular cars for LS-swaps and for drag racing.

Range anxiety?

Even though there’s not a single modern pickup truck that I like, I’ve always liked the old shop truck with faded signage look.

I’m with you on the Koreans. Those Genesises(?) Geneses(?) are a great bargain used, too. I wish the Veloster N came with the performance package standard, though.

I have an irrational hatred for it.

I’ll be looking forward to your content. What kind of cars do you like?

Makes me think of this.

Pickup trucks will be the top selling vehicles for the foreseeable future and pickup sales aren’t grouped by powertrain. So I guess the question should be, “when will pickup trucks become exclusively electric?”.

Now that real car manufacturers are making decent electric cars, there really aren’t any good reasons to consider a Tesla.

I was half expecting the alarming behavior to come from human drivers road raging, running stop signs or lights, or otherwise endangering people on the streets.

I think that when that’s sitting in a turn lane going the opposite direction, I won’t be able to see oncoming traffic past it’s bulk to make a turn at a yellow arrow. Aside from that, complete disinterest.

I wish they would make a coupe.

Usable beds were sacrificed long ago for bigger back seats and higher belt lines. The modern truck bed is a short box that only exists to provide bulk and can’t be reached without deploying a hidden staircase.

Looks like a really nice one, too. Congrats.

On several occasions I’ve cut a slot across an allen bolt with a cutting wheel and removed it with a flat head screwdriver.