This struck a chord and I’ve been thinking similarly.

Last week, I just ordered an unobtainium clutch from a bespoke parts supplier, even though it was a tough decision to part with crazy money. Any work that I’m doing to the cars for the next several months is just the standard stuff with the parts that I’ve been…

Agreed. I’ve planted about 100 trees on my own property (3 acres) through the years. This reeks of a shallow attempt to have their name in the same sentence as “environmental”.

I was thinking of some of the other options and have only one, based on familiarity: Mazda CX-9 (2017+)
While not compact, it has plenty of room for the front seat/height, back seats slide AND recline while preserving headroom.
Very fuel efficient @ 23mpg hwy and has about 15-16 gal capacity.
The back seat is nearly…

Ford is tying a wildly different car to the Mustang’s image, and the best case scenario is that it gives the new car a small bump in interest