I’d go for it, but only because I’m just that kind of guy. Bare bones? Basic? Underpowered? That’s my jam - traffic jam, that is. Because stuck in slow-moving traffic is where the Thing’s modest power isn’t an issue.

That electric rear axle in the RX450h is compelling. If you can make the controls work out, that would be a quick-and-dirty way to create a RWD EV with one major component swap. If you started with a RWD vehicle, especially something along the lines of a compact pickup, you’d free up every inch of the under-truck…

Pump and dump.

Just fucking die already.

That was a perfect car in my opinion. Handily compact outside, tardishly big on the inside, reliable and comfortable.

Can we just get people to admit that they like and want tall wagons? Would that be so bad?

Put a dab of red paint on those pop rivets and no one will ever notice them again.

No title, no sale.

Holy smokes, it’s so much more appropriate than I could have imagined.

I hate the idea of having to drive it, but I kind of admire it too.

You ain’t wrong. Grew up in VA. Moreso: grew up in NoVA. “Good evening officer. What seems to be the problem?”

Right of way. More to the point: ignorance of the right of way, how it works and so many drivers’ relationship to their own and mine.

I think I’m just going to say get the Expedition instead?

Prius. Specifically the second-gen which, upon its introduction for MY2004, became my must-have (and achievable!) Dream Car.

It’s always a peculiar situation when you realize, hey, I need something out of the back and you pull over and go get it but never exit the vehicle.  You just...walk back there and get it.

There was a whole Planet Money episode in which the story was discovering that Subarus are associated with gay people, and lesbians in particular, because they literally went specifically after that market. It isn’t a cliche, it isn’t a meme. It’s a fact.

The interior looks like it was finished by a guy using up materials left over from fixing his pontoon boat.

I think Toyota’s conservative approach to engineering is smart, though it did leave a rapidly growing market niche wide open for other early adopters to get their feet in the door. Where they have been able to thrust themselves into the market with their otherwise-familiar products in the past - the Lexus LS400 was,…

I hear about this eyewash approach and the only thing that comes to mind is ooh, Honda’s offroady hopefuls think they can Pontiac their way to market share! Let’s watch.

Used to be if you wanted to do some serious adventuring, Honda had your boots: