it won’t be that easy

Again... The raptor is not a stadium truck. It's a street legal mid travel. Treat it like a long travel... You're going to have a bad time.

The biggest thing those have is longer suspension travel. I got to talk to Robby Gordon and a few drivers at an SST race at Mid Ohio last summer (all super cool guys!). Those trucks have standard racing seats in them, no excess cushioning. Sat in one, standard racecar stuff. They have very long travel suspension, lots…

Despite seeing all this, another nearly identical Raptor driver decided to do the same launch and had a similarly hard landing.

Royal Enfield?!

Well, I am honestly impressed with his candor and admission that there’s no one to blame but himself. Here’s to good healing.

“Weird enough to be a Subaru?”

Jeebus Fracking Crackers. Subaru...what happened to your design? Is the mandate to design beige vehicles and then throw a dash of plastic body cladding on for “off road” utility? I know design is subjective. But even without the cladding I think most would describe their recent efforts as bland at best.

this is a picture of me right before I change the site name to Jeeplopnik and force everybody to buy an XJ

I didn’t know this - thanks for the info. My main experience was my wife’s 99 SL2, and it had lots of little things like the physical ignition lock cylinder go bad, various switches acting up and the headliner drooping all before only 8 years of age. A couple of friends with various Saturns all reported similar…

The secret to American school buses is that they’re built like tanks. Literally. You can find test footage online where they hit them with trains, roll them, slam into them with commercial trucks... they’re supposed to be hard to roll over, and if you hit the body hard enough it’s supposed to stay in one piece even if…

Eh....you can get less than 10 year old Class A motorhomes with under 50k miles for less than that. Slide outs, more powerful engines, etc. Do they have interiors that look as cool? No they don’t, but they’re likely way more sorted.

An American school bus can be purchased for a price at nearly scrap metal value. A real coach (even used) still is out of reach in purchase price for the people that typically want to convert one.

Also, the price for replacement parts on a coach vs a school bus makes the school bus more economical over time.

My ‘Satties are tough story: about 10 years ago, I was driving along in my 1995 SC2 (still my daily driver). Got sideswiped by a new Scion xB, hitting me just forward of my driver-side rear wheel. He had over $1500 in damage to his passenger-side front wheel and fender. I had to buff off his tire marks.

This thing is for RV’ing. RV’ing is definitely not “camping”.

“With a wheezing 100hp motor”

While that looks really nice, $63k for non-professional work is a big ask.

I had a 93 SL2 in my late teens/20s, and I drove it like a kid of that age. it was a damn good, reliable car that finally gave up the ghost north of 300,000 miles, and the only reason I don’t have an exact number is because the odometer quit several years earlier at around 280,000 and I never bothered to fix it.

This is what I like to call: “Your first car if you’re 16 and your parents aren’t rich.” It’ll get you around, and you can use the rear doors as a strike zone for your wiffle ball games. (And you won’t feel bad about it.) I inherited my dad’s 1993 Camry when I was in high school, and it was... exactly what I needed.

I had a white SW2 5 speed of the same age, the car was totaled by a Rav4 that didn’t see it in the snow. Hit the driver’s side rear door, rear quarter and hatch.  At the time I was hauling two grand daughters in the back seat, one in a booster seat. They both walked to the ambulance and got a clean bill of health at…