Perfect assessment. It's just plain gorgeous.

My main issue with this thing is that it’s the looney toons fat horse from what’s opera doc vs. a real mustang which in horse terms is cute, small and spritely. It just needs a bloated horse logo and a MASSIVE price reduction. Of course basically every new car could use that last one.

Or just live in a place that lets you haul people in the bed as long as the seatbelts are all used up front. I know washington had a law like this for years, unsure if they still do. But that's how we got away with riding around in the bed of my dad's truck with a matress and pillows in the back for family road trips. 

The issue I see is more that they are focusing on current engineers/ drivers and not the root of the problem, that being the very beginning, get children excited about it, pay attention to them and they will develope an interest. I'm in an odd position being not caucasian in a career viewed as inherently racist by…

Thanks for being reasonable and accurately and concisely stating that. Some of us need a truck but can’t afford something cleaner to daily so do the best we can, like keeping a dinosaur in tip top shape including emissions controls despite the looks and just plain driving as little as possible, much as I love a good…

Perhaps but the taurus was pretty radical compared to the other american sedans at the time, and that movie may have been it's introduction to the public. It's been a while though so don't quote me on that but I seem to remember that being the case. 

It’s also loads safer than the brick nose ford I drive. Having been in a nasty crash in one it’s not pleasant but I made it out a lot better than the semi that rear-ended me. My truck still ran, his Freightliner, not so much.

Pure oddness? I almost bought an imported one back in 04, the deciding factor for me was a test drive when the shifter came off in my hand. A bit scary at 65mph on a slushy freeway. 

You should see the main project this guy is working on. He kind of hints that he wants to apply these camless valves to it. It's a sixties f1 car tribute built out of a Porsche boxter. Right now it's a driving bare chassis but it's definitely a cool idea. 

I feel for him. My commute used to be just the same. I did it in a jeep liberty CRD great fuel economy and I loved it until it munched the head and cams out of nowhere and it was cheaper to get a brand new one from vm motori in italy than one out of a junkyard here.

Hey now some of us love our Buicks. Granted mine just turned 46 but still.

What she wanted is more expensive used than the renegade was new, oh the joys of being in Utah at the time with a wife that wanted an unlimited rubicon on a cop’s salary. The renegade does limit some of her trips but it gets us through most of the trails she likes to tackle. As for more actual off roading I tend to…

It almost looks like one of those commercials where they didn't actually get permission to show a real car so had to "disguise" it.

Nothing wrong with your taste of vehicles, I’m partial to my oddball Buick and random curiosities myself, and I applaud you for being able to give up the stuff you can't actually use. Maybe someday I'll be able to give up my 327 small journal, 351cleveland 4v, the random go kart, and even the drift trike. Just not yet…

Some of us have to go the cheaper route but still want something to take into the mountains on occasion, that’s why I bought my wife a little renegade, it was the most capable new vehicle we could afford. As for the panda I agree and can’t wait until the second gen 4x4 hits the 25 year mark and I can import one just…

Love it. I had a 2wd bronco II it was a freak but it was also a blast. I wish I could have kept it. 

I believe it. My own moments of time slowing haven’t been from anything close to as terrifying as this crash but when you get attacked by a drug addled inmate with a weapon it’s a bit stressful and yes time slowed down for me on multiple of those occasions. Thankfully I only got hurt once but a thirty second fight for…

First memory, seeing trans am prepped mustang start up in my Grandpa’s shop after he built the motor. Most vivid, not a real race but definitely racing. We went to Portland international raceway for a Shelby meet and I got to watch original cobras, Sunbeam tigers, several race prepped panteras, and for some deranged…

Only issue I see with a miata is size of driver. Granted I'm poly so I don't fit in much anyway but I once had an NA Miata and it was a blast but I had to get rid of it because it was just too small for the occasional road trip I wanted to take it on. My view is that either the Saturn sky or pontiac solstice, both of…

Thanks. That’s fascinating, I hope they can make their business models work. I’d love to see electric become the average Joe cars so we of the gasoline persuasion can have our weekend hotrods and not have so much complaint about both lithium mining and petrochemical production and use. Best of both worlds, clean…