Minivan owner is a tripod

Agree, as long as the frame wasn’t tweaked, everything else is just bolt on to get good as new (mechanically anyway). There is one advantage to buying a vehicle with old tires (don’t know on this one, comment is buying in general), tire wear can tell you a lot about alignment and suspension wonkiness or lack thereof.

Resale is crap, fat fingers and autocorrect don't mix

I agree with most everything you said, couple additions, if it has continued it's life for several years and lots of miles after the salvage title that is a good sign, an end of life, you are probably the last owner vehicle doesn't matter as much, as you will likely sell it for scrap or parts when it dies, so resale…

The biggest concern about salvage titles is of course 1) It wasn’t fixed right; and 2) your real is crap.

“three tons of vehicle" thanks autocorrect

I had an old 90s Ranger, standard cab, 184" long, or about a foot shorter than a new Maverick, could fit plywood in the back with the gate down. Most modern full size trucks don’t have an 8' foot bed either.

My personal mission and pet peeve.  The Maverick isn't a small truck, it is a mid sized truck, The Ranger is a big truck, and full sized trucks are huge trucks.  If a slightly height advantaged man can't see over the hood of a vehicle (such as full sized American trucks) it is huge.  They don't sell small pick ups in…

When we had a minivan 2 + 1 + 3 was pretty much the default, we needed more than 4 pretty often, but seldom needed more than 6, and the access and extra room for the rearmost seat was great.

The prices (or at least asking prices) may be up, but I would prefer my beetles a little older with the smaller bumpers, and a little more stock, the wheels and interior dash insert just aren’t doing it for me. Though becoming less common, there are still quite a few around, so you can be a little picky. No Dice, but…

A round of applause is due, pretty well stated.  Do they make cars in Canada still?

Rumor I heard was we are getting Alpines, but not fun Alpines.

Pretty sure that's a Firebird dude...(kidding)

We got a 2022 Crosstrek too, the CVT is my only real worry about it, but my wife liked the package and size better than anything else we looked at so what can you do.

Toyoburu twins for not having a hatchback. Here me out on this, the cars are relatively cheap. Unlike say, a new Porsche, which is likely to be a second or third car, the Toyoburu is likely to be bought as a daily driver by a young man of modest to middling means.

I was mostly in the driver’s seat at start up. Mine didn’t smoke or use oil between changes, though there may have been a small puff on start up. ‘85 GS, aka the Silver Bullet.

The first generation RX7s were routinely good for 100,000 miles plus, which wasn’t bad for back then, and I would say much better than the RX8.  If they would have improved on that I think the RX8 and rotary could have been a winner, but I think the development focus was more on HP and MPG.

That is not a bad looking car, if it had the 8 and manual (don’t know if that was an option) would be a pretty interesting car.

Yeah, I almost said in my own comment this is a $4000 grand pre-Covid car, but I don't know that $7,500 is out of line with current market.

Road & Track or Car and Driver did a comparison between the Capri and a Miata. As I recall the turbo Capri was slightly faster in a straight line, but they said the Miata did everything else better, a lot better.