It’s another mechanical device that, just like with cars and their engines, have a wide range of complexity, reliability, cost, and aesthetics. Beyond race sponsorships you also have the literal use of stopwatches and chronographs. If you’re into rallying, these things are probably bolted to your dash.

Appreciation for engineering/mechanical devices. Both watches and cars have an incredible amount of design, engineering and craftsmanship involved and I have an appreciation for that type of work.

The Land Cruiser Prado can be sold concurrently with the 4Runners very much the same way as in some Latin American markets with no issues of encroachment. Toyota USA really should seriously make that move and no longer deny the North American market this vehicle. Their miscalculation was to rely to heavily on the Land…

All answers are weak... Subaru drivers like to hike... CRV drivers they bird watch, Jeep drivers sit and eat Jerky... this man climbs... only logical answer... used 4X ambulance. Check IronPlanet... nothing good right now... but something like this would fit the bill. See if they can toss in an old “people pallet”…

$4k gets you my off road ready 1994 Plymouth Voyager.

Not all of us right wingers are anti-science. Don’t believe the press. Case in point are the nukes. I (and many other “right wingers”) have been thinking this all along.

They are basically in line, now, with the last 2 years of Obama’s presidency.  Market forces have bigger impacts on gas prices than who is sitting in the oval office.  

I like how Europe is basically just pretending nuclear power doesn’t exist, despite the fact that nuclear power is the reason why they were able to overcome fossil fuels.

New off-road SUV: ancient mechanicals because “proven”, cheap interior because “durable”, and crap MPG because brick. Fit it with good rock sliders, some factory 33's, and watch the upper middle class permanent work from home snap them up since they’re not commuting anymore. It could work!

Nissan frontier is coming, a new xterra could certainly be in the cards. It should be.

It’ll never work.  Americans won’t buy cars from our former enemies.  That’s why you almost never see a German or a Japanese car on American roads.

“Yes, I would like to order a tuned down M2 with a worse interior and more depreciation for the same price”

reminds me of an old joke.

Here is my ad to sell that GTI:

And also, I need to see the owner or get a few clues, at least. My current new-to-me-last-summer car is a 2006 Camry XLE with 80k miles. Beige, 4-cyclinder.

Well, we’re already at an old-lady index of 95. I already knew what I needed to know. The light scratches at each door handle clearly indicated multi-jeweled…

In the early evening, just as the sun fell behind the trees - a gale blew from the west just right, and I heard the mournful cries of a broken man...

I am very skeptical. I have a lot of years riding motorcycles, and almost as many in custom metal fabrication. This looks more like a college kid’s industrial design project than something really well thought out from a manufacturing point of view. In other words, designed to look cool rather than be functional.

If you can’t afford to pay cash, you can’t afford that car.

This is really bad advice.