But, it's still Alabama that's why.

I’ve bought two cars in the last 15 years and they were both from Carmax.

“Here’s both of our new cars.”

$150 for labor? That seems insanely cheap. How long did the guy spend?

Yu are hitting that threshold were I, as a reader of your articles, don’t know anymore if I’m supporting you or enabling you :-)

I hate the badge [LX random big sounding number]. Stupid. But the rest should be pretty ordinary. Uglier, less capable Land Cruiser with nicer interior and fancier suspension. I will never forgive Toyota for ditching the splitgate though.

I had a 2001 that refused to live.

probably because the drivetrain would grenade if it had to turn 37's.

This. It’s like the Jeep mythos. GM reliability is utter nonsense.

As a service advisor, I'll give a hard pass to any GM from the last few decades. 

I have a 2005 Focus in my garage which belongs to my spouse. It has a relatively low number of KMs on it, 135,000 or so from memory.

Toyota RAV4. Big shout out to Indiana, Kentucky, Texas, and Mississippi!

This is the QOTD. Its results have been 100% slideshows for over a full year. Bold prediction.

Thats super weird because I live in the south where it rarely snows, and the only GMT400s I see on the roads are absolute rust bucket flintstone-mobiles with rocker panel deletes and “none” cab corners. Wonder if they only rust proofed the ones in the rust belt?

I live in a very salty place (both attitudes and road salt usage) and most of these are long gone.  The rusted just like everything else.

Maybe we should start by defining “American”. Is a Toyota Tundra built in Texas American? How about a Ford Fiesta built in Mexico?

Droll, but it is quite common to see someone driving with a kid standing on the footplate before them there.

No. There’s off-road ready and then there’s rally race-ready.

It points at the ground. Fairly uselessly.

“hitched up to the back of one of my Smart Fortwos...”