Getting a trailer means all the grocery runs will be with the gas-guzzler monster-truck tow vehicle

After the first2 or 3 years if you can last that long, the warranty repairs are done and you have a decent unit - I’d buy a well sorted 3 year old before I’d roll the dice on a new one. Class C? junk - just about every make. Trailers?? all metal frame or nothing. Class A? First year? tear your hair out. Second year?…

8 is optimistic. Diesel is the ONLY option IF you are going to “over-road” this thing. The vast majority however- particularly of this type and age, start in the north and head south - to a “campground community” in Texas or Arizona - where they stay for 5 or more years with the owners flying back north for the…

And they ARE “special duty” tires - at least on the cruisers around here - around $300 Canadian retail each on a good day

90% of “staff cars” even up here in salt country look that good - as do MOST cruisers - unless they’ve been involved in “an occurrence” or two. There is a local body shop that keeps them looking good - touching up dents and scratches as they occur. They are usually in pretty good cosmetic condition up until they are…

Nephew on the local force was called to the carpet for speed based on the fata recorders - they knew EXACTLY how fast he was driving, when and where - and had to have a pretty darn good excuse if he was breaking limit by any appreciable amount

and that is better than being started/stopped all the time.

That may be true where you are, but up here the cruisers are fairly well maintained and lots of ex cruisers live a second life as a taxi cab for another 5 to 7 years - at least the CVs and Chargers. Not sure how the SUVs will fare - and detective / staff cars are in the highest demand.

The first car I owned (in 1968) was a $15 black and white 210 MorDoor. When I bought it the rear doors didn’t open. I fixed the latches and when I opened the doors the back fenders dropped a couple inches. Sold the radio out of it for $10 and the car for $15 for parts (basically he wanted the wheel discs and I told…

The only problem with the 4R is the Toyota truck seating position with your ass 4 inches higher than your heals.

Yugo, Trabant,- - - - - - --  

The last cecent cars Nissan built were sold as Datsuns. Anything after the 510 and the 240Z is basically “meh” at best.

It would likely have been worse with the Wankel. I worked for an AMC/Mazda? IHC dealer in ‘72. The Mazda rotary was anything BUT reliable and slurped fuel like a 460 Lincoln.  I later owned a ‘75 Pacer - not a fast car - not a slow car - and surprizingly not a “half-ast” car either. Handled well. rode nicely, not an…

GM has NEVER marketed a decent small car in the North American market.

No worse than it’s Chevy brethren - it was just that it pretended to be more - - 

The logical competition for the IHC Travelall - jist as the Blazer was to the Scout - both of which were built as hardworking work-horses

Like I used to say - How can it be an “X car” when it never WAS a car??? I drove an early Phoenix SJ V6 for a few months as a company car. Take a “k car”  any day of the week over that POS

And that one didn’t need to have been “re-engineered” by shade-tree bodgers to do that to you - - - 

As bad as British cars COULD be, what you owned was NOT a british car - and it was hardly an MG - it was a badly abused and neglected and poorly bodged together pile of mechanical detrius which could have originated as pretty much ANY car of it’s generation

The Mazda likelyu spent more time in the shop - and definitely rusted worse than a PT if there was salt on the roads or in the air.