Bought this two weeks ago for $2000. Have put maybe $100 into it for maintenance so far and it gets mid-20's mpg. Yes, it is my daily.

Or just be like me and daily a Comet that gets about 25mpg. Haha

Commas are important in the case of your last sentence...

No doctor would do it. Too much liability for getting sued over their opinion.

I disagreed with that when? At what point? You must have missed the inclusion of "I" and "wish" as a statement of opinion. How often does someone in a manual get into a low-speed, rear-end collision? Not very often. So yes, even in traffic, in my own opinion, you do have a feeling for the car and a better grasp of it…

Context. Context. Context. I am not I'm a minority in the stated realm of subject. Jalopnik being that stated realm of subject.

Ha! I'm not exactly a minority on feeling that way. This is Jalopnik, after all.

Our requirements to obtain a license are also a joke. Most people cannot drive a manual because they don't need to when all you have to do is drive around a city block to obtain a license. For the record, my daily driver is nearly fifty-two years old and a manual.

American here. I hate automatics and wish most able bodied Americans drove manuals so they could actually get a feeling for driving a car instead of pushing one pedal to go and another to stop.

I assume he is European.

And if Ford made an F150 clone, stuck a different grille on it, added a different trim package, but branded it as a Lincoln, that wouldn't count as being a Ford. Oh, wait...They did that for a few years and didn't count it in the F-series sales numbers. Then they figured out it made more sense to just call it an F150…

If pulling a load down the road (including vehicle weight itself) had no wear impact on a clutch pack/disc they would last forever and never need replacement. Add additional weight or drag to a clutch pack/disc and you speed up the rate at which it wears. Which is why dump truck clutches don't last as long as those in…

The rest of the car is fine. Normal use but really clean and it all works other than the windows (I know how to fix them but haven't). In all honesty, I don't like the modular 4.6L after spending a few years with this one. I've had three IAC's on it, the AOD is twitchy, the oil filter is in a horrible spot, and the…

The body has 95k on it, the motor had 60k on it. (Random failure at 35k due to the intake recall). It overheated on the highway for a moment, I pulled over because I assumed the serpentine had snapped or something, and the bottom end fell out or bent a rod - not sure which. Smoke out the dipstick tube, rod knock, the…

So funny to read this now. I just got home because the modular engine in my Thunderbird seized and I had it towed so I can check it out tomorrow. I mentioned parting it out of Facebook and immediately had someone ask for the complete IRS out of it.

His shop tech services it. If you watch the video on his Jay Leno's Garage YouTube channel, he talks about how they have pulled the engine out of the chassis for a service before. And I want to say they had a small slideshow of it extracted from the car in that video as well.

I build furniture for a living and until you try to unload a $1000 custom-finished cabinet out of a vehicle that has a roof on it without bumping/scratching it, you probably wouldn't understand. Or hauling 12ft lumber which would require leaving a back door open on a van, but props nicely and safely angled on a closed…

I wish I could reccommend this post one hundred times over. Probably why I'm 28 and happily single. I couldn't ever marry a woman who wants to spend the same on a wedding as a brand new car.

Yep. And I hate it. Sometimes it's a pedal in the floor on the far left over here as well. Which I also don't care for.

YJ Wrangler? (1987-95) Mine did the same thing but rolled into the yard next door. About a month later there was a recall on the locking mechanism. I parked in gear from that day forward.