I think the extra weight in the trunk thing is only a single cab rwd truck help or a gm g-body thing. Old rwd had no weight over the back, so even with snow tires, a bit of weight would help. And no one is adding 600 lbs! It was 50-100 max, less than a dead body.

Of course they’re running out of ideas. Top Gear had current info with car recipes and topical messing around and was punctuated with big adventures.

My dad had one of these. It was a 95, with the 3.4 dohc motor. He kept bringing it back because it wouldn't to into 4th. They finally said they'd replace the transmission, but it would take 3 weeks to come in.  We had planned to drive across the country, so he for them to let us a rental car....which was also a…

Was his name O'Doyle?

To a limited extent. You can power oversteer and hold angle with throttle, but AWD can rotate and paddle out from the front so we'll.

It won’t help you start, but if you know what you’re doing you can rotate and then pull through the turn, so it can help you turn.

Used to be running car was 2-3k, running interesting car was $5k. Covid doubled that. But now is when we start the reset.

This is a classic you could daily. It's gonna be stupid slow, but most 90s cars are compared to modern minivans...so what are you trying to do anyway. $6 is the absolute max for this thing though, I'd expect the real price will be closer to $5000

I haven’t done the all weather, but a couple of friends of mine went that way when they balked at my suggestion of snow tires. They seem to do ok, a bit less life than an all season...

Bertone>Pininfarina

The thing about the markup trend, is it’s just that, a trend. Except for limited release specials, cars were typically haggled down from MSRP.

The US market is a weird beast. In the mainstream, it requires a large number of very homogeneous options. I remember back in the 90s, cars here would have 2, maybe 3 engine options, while the same car in Europe would have 4-6 engine options. It’s very expensive and difficult to have variety here for many reasons.

there was, but they were causing too much resistance

What 3.6? Do you mean the 3.8 Buick motor? The Buick is a better cruiser, but this thing is silly when you get up in the revs. It’s a bit maintenance heavy with timing belts but it was an early gm effort. My dad had one in a '95 LS that went 150k before my cousin totalled it.

I grew up on a main road with the double yellow line in the middle. My dad told me it was the bike lane.

There’s plenty of people with more money than sense who buy a vehicle they have no idea it's capabilities and just point it and pin it. Some vehicles just have a higher concentration.

As much as batteries are supposed to be the end all and be all, they won’t be able to replace fossil fuels in every aspect. This is a good solution for some edge cases.

The only honk I give to traffic is when someone is blocking an intersection that they never should have pulled into and ate now blocking the 20 of us that have a green light and open road on the other side of your rav 4. My horn will be on until I somehow squeeze past your unobservant self centered indiscretion 

Am I the only one intrigued by the irony that they have an ev with self driving pushing the officially regulated use of a color that is the color of their Petro state company official color? 

Except if you use the days on lot metric, phev s massively outstrip evs and ice cars. Annual oil changes are easy to manage, the Toyota planetary transmission is dead reliable, oooh, 100k spark plugs are a veritable non issue.