Yeah it looks like if I buy one it will be used. Funnily enough the backup I had in mind when I bought the JSW was a R55 Countryman S. There were a couple good examples around me for around $12-14K but they couldn’t beat $10K for a diesel JSW.

My favorite of the Skylines has always been the GT-S. NA RB26DE and rear wheel drive with much more understated aero. One of the old Best Motoring videos had a R34 GT-S that was done up and had ITBs. That cemented it as the Skyline I wanted.

Unfortunately in my part the country that xB would be turned or turning into dust. For a safe, reliable car around me it almost has to be under 10 years old. Rust is a cancer around here.

I think the problem lies more in the fact that even though cars prices are moving with inflation, wages are not. I work with a bunch of older control panel builders who keep telling me that they are just now getting paid what they were in the early 2000s.

Why does he need a license, does your state not have regular State IDs?

This. I would enjoy driving so much more if I didn’t have to do it on a daily basis.

A rusty 4-cylinder Ford Ranger with over 250K miles on it is $5k where I am. When you live in a place where vehicles turn to dust after 10 years there is a huge premium on safe and reliable used cars, you know the kind that you would want your offspring to drive.

There you go bringing numbers and logic to the generational blame game.

That’s great, hope it goes well.

They tried that and hired Prodrive to run it after Subaru pulled out. Instead of using a normal hardtop they used a Countryman for some unfathomable reason and hired a company who hadn’t won anything since 2005 to run it despite using the only car in class that was tailor made to rally, the Subaru WRX. Needless to say …

Is that the one where he turns to plaid on stage?

I wish VW would offer this on other models. I so want a 4motion Sportwagen in one of the two dark greens.

I’ll have to remember that when I’m at the Mid-Ohio vintage race in June. Get some shots of 40 year old cars being ragged around the track instead peacefully driven around a leaf covered road.

Hit the nail on the head.

They were “of that time”.

I disagree on the TrailBlazer date. In ‘99 it debuted as the luxury trim package as did the Envoy on the GMC side. The Trailblazer as a model didn’t debut until 2002.

I’ve owned one of the second generation S10 Blazers and two Trailblazers. The best thing that can be said of them is that they did the job they were designed to do. They were not to big SUVs that could still do truck things. They weren’t exciting drives or great off-roaders or even fuel efficient cruisers, but they…

I honestly don’t get the hate. Are we so shortsighted to forget that this is exactly what the modern version of the last blazers produced should be?

This. I remember hearing that at IBM in the early 80s it would cost them something like $2000 to ship an empty box with the corporate structure in place. This was one of the main reasons that the PC division was kept separate and used mostly off-the-shelf components instead of keeping it completely in-house like they…

How is it so bad? I was getting 32 MPG regularly in a 2012 Legacy w/ the 2.5 NA, but it did have the CVT.