“who are by percentage much higher buyer’s of VAG products than americans” I have to admit, I had to giggle like a 12 year old at that.

Yes. I want to relive my days with one of these without paying for the gas. I also had a 1979 Golden Eagle Cherokee. We called it the golden buzzard, or just buzzard for short. When I cleaned it out after buying it, I filled two coffee cans with ammunition and soybeans. The guy I bought it from was messy and…

Persephone! (If you do not get it see very old Simpsons episode where Homer meets his brother)

CJ2A, CJ3A, CJ3B, CJ5, CJ7, MR2, RX7...

What I have been saying all along: your statement of “If you had any clue to how fragile and close to the limit the power grid is....” and “Of probably greater importance, and it is already happening, is securing parts of the distribution network that are extremely vulnerable to attack and even a minor breach would…

22 out of the 25 vehicles I’ve owned over the last 26 years have been manual transmission equipped. That said, your comment is simply bullshit. The first slush box I owned was TH400 in a 1979 Jeep Cherokee. On the test drive, with the seller’s encouragement, we drove through water past the axles. When floored, the…

Well I have two more grills in my garage....It only took me two years, buckets of sweat, 11 stitches, and who the hell knows how much money.

It still looks new in this one:

LOL, while my response was sort of serious (I’ll rarely shy away from a fire road when we visit the Western states), for anything that would require a winch, I have a vehicle that has a winch:

I’ve said it before and I will say it again: I have a Subaru for snow measured in inches and a Jeep CJ for snow measured in feet.

I hate to make the comparison, but Harley...sigh.

Shhh! The mass market keeping it popular has its benefits! The first owner of a Jeep will probably not go to a trail, the first owner of a Miata will probably not go to a track, and the first owner of a pickup won’t haul over 250 lbs.

Keep your fuel tank full. I like to go farther than the average Subaru owner too....

Sorry,tempting, but I can’t do that. I built that thing from the ground up. It has the original grill from my very first CJ7. Somehow I hung onto that rusty chunk of metal for 25 years just to build a Jeep out of it.

Hmmm, once finals are over, maybe I’ll wash the old Forester and put my Jeep back together. I feel kinda guilty now.

Don’t trade it in! Sell it to me :) I’ll give it way more love than some random buy here pay here lot that would end up with it. Of course I do have a CJ so that probably says volumes of my finances....

Well let me set your mind at ease. There is a very distinct difference between the grid and the actual power generation. The grid, while in need of constant maintenance, is functioning and certainly not “fragile and close to the limit” as you said. As far as generation goes, no, it is foolish to use fear to build…

Indeed...

I have a Subaru for snow measured in inches and a Jeep CJ when the snow is measured in feet.

No far considering your car didn’t materialize out of thin air.