I think I had the CTR FN2 a while back, I’m sure that had the aluminium gear knob.

I mean, if you are going to base the choice of a vehicle that has, let’s face it, moved the goal posts to a potentially cleaner and sustainable future whilst stimulating more vehicle manufacturer’s to up their game based on tyre wear as opposed to replacing polluting, messy and dangerous oils and lubes, then you’re…

I bet your dads truck doesn’t look in as good shape, nor will it then sell (after another 150k miles) whilst retaining as much value.

Credit where credit is due. This is a car that is run pretty much constantly in an extreme environment and driven by people who are not the owners, nor passengers who probably care much for the vehicle.

The 3 looks way better than the Y.

Owning and operating isn’t necessarily expensive or prohibitive, but the cost of fuel is.

Moving on from the NP/CP Sierra xr4ti

Looks like something from Top Gear, but worse which is saying something. 

It’s 15 years old, and the design looks it. May be in a further 15 years the design will be looked back on through nostalgia tinted spectacles and seen as the ‘apex’ of millennium design.

In a world where car’s are all starting to look the same, this is starting to look like the new defender.

Not really socialism, just that healthcare should be a given right for all. The rest of the world are not socialists for (not that it;s a dirty word anyway) for caring about any person who unfortunately falls ill.

It’s starting to become so. I think it should be rolled out in far more cities and urban areas. 

I like the classic look of a saloon/sedan car but this is exactly why hatchbacks rule in EUR.

I’m going to go out on a limb here and say if this car was in the UK as the XR4i it would be in much better shape* and worth so much much more because of fast Ford Sierra nostalgia.

Can someone please explain the whole American thing with front indicators (being amber) also doubling up as marker/clearance lights?

While I do not disagree with your reasoning for this light oddity to happen, sometimes rear fog lights and brake lights are in ‘one’.

There’s not much weight in there. Way less than its capability, even with 1 or 2 people in there. 

I guess it is at a $10k premium because of the inspirational photography locations out of the rear doors.

Wait, so you didn’t want to endure 40+ stops on the Piccadilly line? Whimp!

My opinion probably means nothing, but to me, it just doesn’t look like a work truck. Surely people buy a truck because they at least want to llok like they do some rufty tufty manual work. Even if they don’t.