Plenty of people take their $60k JL Rubicons with all sorts of doodads installed on them offroading, so I guess so. 

...which is cheaper than a fully automatic...

Sure, but the JK didn’t have the 8-speed the JL has.

I test drove a v6 JL with the 8-speed, and it had no issues getting up to freeway speeds and calmly staying there.

Yeah, like I mentioned, the Mohave trim makes more sense for a V8 Gladiator or Wrangler, where the rest of the suspension, tires, and differential are tuned more for desert running than forest trails. 

I guess. My old YJ and Miata are my toys, but I’ve never felt like either needed a V8, though it’s not uncommon to put V8s in either one.

Unless the towing capacity got a significant bump with the V8 (and I doubt it will), I don’t see much of a point. The 8-speed in the JL already means the 6cyl can lope around on trails just fine.

This would be an absolute blast to drive around until it broke down and rusted to pieces.

Ram 1500. 

Those still need to be changed, and in zero/low gravity, that’s going to be a messy affair.

Uh, what? If you can only afford $1000 down, you shouldn’t be buying a $40k truck, or a $30k one...

You’re thinking of the Lincoln Futura concept car:

My dad had a burnt orange Baja Bug back in the ‘70s. He loved that car, and I always wished he still had it.

Bisi Ezerioha of Bisimoto fame is a pretty fascinating guy to follow. His 1000 hp minivan and EV 911 builds have a lot of cool engineering in them:

My unchecked antics have been tremendously successful from a readership standpoint, contributing to Jalopnik garnering the most traffic the website has ever seen.

This actually seems like a pretty brilliant driving school fleet car:

Looks like a solid improvement overall. The new looks don’t bother me one bit, and but the real story here is the ProPilot upgrades.

Many German cars have had this for decades. My old E30 had bulb out detection.

AMC? Jeep is going plug-in hybrid these days, and feel like AMC could have pulled it off. 

Did they ever really stop? The Frontier has averaged over 63000 sales a year in the US since 2005. Granted, that’s 100k less per year than the Tacoma over the same time period, but still, 63000 sales a year for a US-market truck with little to no changes for 15 years isn’t bad at all.