Oh boy, this is right there in that hazy space. About as good of an example as you’re going to find, but the iffy fuel managment stuff is a little worrisome. This is very decent 1st gen MR2 money, but it’s also more unique. I dunno -- if you’ve always wanted one of these this might be a good last chance. Sometimes…

Hasn’t the actual cost of a 911 in inflation adjusted dollars remained pretty much the same, while the performance and luxury has absolutely gone next-level? I think there needs to be perspective, too — they were always cars for people making a lot more than average money, and for a lot of older people that have done…

Tangentially, I think a lot of the would-be buyers of sporty cars — young men — just don’t have a lot of interest in cars these days. I wonder how much that demographic spends on the stuff they’re into, like high-power gaming consoles and stuff like that?

He’s a grumpy old man that’s upset that there aren’t more plus-size sports cars that fit his fat ass and budget, and also have the magical power to make him seem cooler, younger and more relevant. The fact is that today’s cars — from the Miata to the Lucid and everything in between – are pretty amazing in terms of…

I hated the first run of Rams with the big truck grille, but at this point it’s almost become quaint. Still, it set the trend for the monstrosities we see everywhere today so the slow-burn of my hate for it continues.

Yes, retractable hardtop. They’re pretty easy to find down here in Florida. I’ve always been tempted by them. 

I think they put that last so as to generate an extra 20 clicks per visitor. 

There was a cottage industry of people making Corvette wagons back in the day; I like the idea but I don’t think the rear-engined C8 is the right platform for one today.

Draw a Venn digram of all those things — comfort, safety, FWD, mature, under $15K, reasonable maintenance, Colorado-climate friendly, good road-tripper — and you’ll see this baby right dead set in the middle:

100%. 

That dog was the only positive thing in the photos.

Let’s get the pitchforks!

That’s pretty close the the late Ford Edge, which certainly never caught on, unfortunately. 

I wish I spoke multiple other languages so that I could say “No!” in many more ways.

Interesting, but not $100K interesting. Not even $10,000 interesting, tbh. 

People actually try this? 

What did they do to that poor Mazda?

I think both can be right — sure, those early SUVs sold in large numbers because those were the only ones on the market, and a lot of people WERE discovering them to be useful and as a replacement for the station wagon/Minivan. But after 2000 or so the competition went ape-shit crazy with EVERYONE offering ruggedized…

Maybe The Atlantic article mentions this (I couldn’t read it behind the paywall) but I’ve always had a theory that post 9/11 Americans started buying SUVs because we, as a society, started harboring deeply seated but basically unexpressed feelings of insecurity. A rugged SUV became a form of protection — it could hold…

I admit that I like the idea of having an old MGB in the garage. You could probably take the whole thing apart with a few screwdrivers and a metric Craftsman socket set, plus you could lift the block out by yourself and take it to the kitchen table to work on it. Until your wife got home, anyway.