Check my reply above, the 1st gen turbos were amazing and terrible and sometimes sounded like a diesel when it was cold and made my wife think it might explode when I started it up.

For me it was also a 2007 MINI Cooper S. It was fun, quick, big enough for some longer road trips, great gas mileage and made everyone ask how a 6'4" guy got in to one. The first 4 years of ownership were relatively uneventful which I unfortunately paid for in year 5. In that year I had to replace the…

Yeah, blinkers are cool and I wish people used them more. Guy abruptly changed in to the right hand turn lane in front of my this morning while I was on my motorcycle. Land Rover Defender driver, no signal, didn’t check for other vehicles and made a late change. Luckily I left enough distance but that was my first…

I agree with this, I have just started riding a motorcycle regularly and someone going way too slow gives me great concern. Other drivers will try to aggressively avoid that slow driver and it causes people to react to timing in odd ways. Since I’m sitting on my vehicle I’d prefer everyone to be going around the…

Well I must be one of those three people. I’ll admit I don’t wheel in my LR4 like I used to in my Wrangler but it still gets the job done. I’ve driven some reasonably sketchy service roads out to camp sites, high alpine passes through the Rockies and I can’t wait for winter. The LR4 has taken me 90% of the places…