Trollblazer, MUCH more appropriate.

I still like that one.

“Born to Be Wild.” It might have been great once but it’s been done to death. No longer interested.

At that weird time when GM owned a powerful interest in Subaru. That ship, blessedly, has sunk and we’re just left with the odd misbegotten duck, the Saaburu 9-2x and the contemporaneous, grotesque Saablazer 9-7x.

Saab tried very hard to retain as much of their identity as possible, but in the end GM beat them into submission and the last Saabs were just GM cars with Saab badges.

Even when flogged by GM overlords, Saab stuck to their driving guns far harder than you might expect. The Night Panel display, the enormous buttons for lights, Saab took piloting a car very seriously.

It’s a nice price because it’s a working car under $5000 with no glaring issues that prevent it from being a useful, reliable automobile.

I just looked at a Massachusetts study that determined their buses consumed, net, about 2.4 kW-h/mi. vs. the diesel buses returning 6.3 MPG. I had no idea they were that terrible. But even though my assumptions were off by a factor of two or so, it doesn’t really change the results that much - the electrics still…

Ugh.

“Accidentally” overpriced ATF.

This is why hybrid buses are a better answer.

I would think that a hybrid or plug in hybrid bus would be a better match for the duty cycle buses experience. Lots of stop-and-go, no emissions when paused next to kids, potential for electric-only miles and quieter near the schools, there’s not a lot of downside there. As cargos go, kids aren’t that heavy so there’s…

Steering yoke: check.

I’m not generally a fan of any BMW newer than 1990 but I’ll admit, this one could move me to purchase. I won’t, but it could.

It pains me but I agree. I’m one of the older Gen-Xers at 53 and AMC stopped being a thing just as I was old enough to drive and, more importantly, start thinking about which car to buy.

I get what you’re saying but my point is Toyota. They are actively pursuing the very scenario you call out as being a poor application: individual-scale private vehicles.

It isn’t that clean either, considering most of the hydrogen on the market is generated by methane steam reforming.

I wish they would drop it. Energy storage in the form of hydrogen, while eminently convenient in that it is a compressible gas that you can then truck around as necessary, is a really poor return on energy in vs. energy out. Unless Toyota is sitting on some seriously next-level tech that is going to blow the existing…

It’s so much more than a mere cult.  Check out Wagonmasters, those guys go looking for lower miles original Wagoneers (and related models too), restore them and sell them dear.  The cheapest rig on Wagonmaster today is $79,000.

I could probably get the engine running in an afternoon or three. But a sound Wagoneer shell for under ten grand? Even if you couldn’t get the engine running and the tranny shifting, there’s a LOT of value here for building a good restomod if that’s the cut of your jib.