It’s horrific. I just posted the same thing (I didn’t scroll enough...). They’re powered by the old Ford modular 4.6 and were insanely heavy, nothing green or advanced about these. A worthy cause but they seem to be styled by Stevie wonder using a pile of empty shoeboxes.

The aux cooler bypass should be done as preventative measure. Super cheap and easy with youtube instructions.

Just wrap that alternator up!

“In general, used Xterras seem to undercut similarly straight-looking 4Runners by at least $1,000"

Hard to top Chrysler. Runner up is Nissan due to:

Mazda disappointing? Their products have been consistently phenomenal for the past five years.

You take that back about Mazda. Take it back right now!

This. Definitely. Just DOA...

Mitsubishi

Yes it’s a little over the arbitrary 3 year old mark, but it only has 44,000 ticks on the clock. Rear wheel drive, 328 hp, 3.7L NA v6, and the Sport and Luxury packages. Ladies and gentlefellows, I give you the venarable Infiniti G37 S. Oh and did I mention it’s HALF the $30,000 budget? 

Lastly, I need something that I wouldn’t be embarrassed driving to the office if the CEO saw me getting out of my car

Well this is Dodge so....

So, pretty much a shotgun version of this:

To be fair, if you are stretching your finances to buy one of these, you probably shouldn’t be buying one of these. Then again, I’ve never bought a car over $30k.

if you can’t afford the maintenance, you shouldn’t buy the car.

Cummins 4.0 Litre inline 6 ?

Beautiful work and I’d rock that car any day of the week. But I’mma also be that guy: Why stick with the auto and not go all the way, especially in a big grand tourer? I’dve definitely backed it up with the T-56.

I get what you’re saying, some cars have specific traits because of their engines and shouldn’t be swapped.

I assumed the Model 3 was going to be a hatch like the S and I was ready to put down a deposit. Then I saw that trunk. Nope.