That’s just not right, looks sad indeed

I liken it to this: American automakers design things on the premise that it will break, so replaceability is valued over performance.

Another idea - find someone with a nice and unriced Honda CRX Si. Tiny and endlessly fun.

That is a 2+2. Kinda like the ugly ducking of the s chassis

My F-150 has a clutch and a foot operated headlight dimmer switch. Turns out you don’t need to use both at the same time.

Don’t buy automatics. Problem solved.

More pedals!

More than you can afford, pal.

Welcome Elizabeth, regardless of what you may have heard we don’t bite.

That Renegade is in my city, there’s enough money in the bank, and my wife is out of town.

Counterpoint:

I came here to say this.

These things are cool. At the same time, for $15K one can buy a very nice Samurai that’s street legal and even closer in specs to the Willys Jeep.

I was excited about this for about 5 minutes before I realized that:

And the very politically incorrect Johnnie Reb edition International Harvester truck. It was sold in the south in the early 70s with its own stars and bars graphic package in confederate gray. No kidding.

Lots of things that are rare now were merely unpopular back then.

Yeah... this thing comes with manual everything except in one spot I would want a manual thing the most.. the transmission.

I’m either completely out of touch with the modern buyer ...or exactly in the same position as they are for vastly different reasons.

Wow! Look at the curves on her!