Hot take- the new Prius.

This. Fairly cheap, really cheap to run, bulletproof reliability, tons of interior space for the size, quicker than a Fiat Spider 124. I’ve probably hauled more stuff in mine than 95% of the brodozer owners out there, and I can pull up to a pump next to said pickup, fill the thing and be on my way while the pickup…

F150.  Nothing else is close

A Gen 4 Prius would be ok except for power.

2006 Sonata. Massive electrical problems, to the point where stepping on the brake would kill every electrical system in the car down to the radio wiping its presets. Dealer managed to fix that after only 3 trips and a month of work, but it had random ABS, airbag, stability control and other faults its entire life

Not quite a car, but a riding lawnmower. It worked just fine until I was cutting sideways on a slope, but only one way. Drive with the right side high it was fine, drive with the left side high and it would die. Asked all the shade tree mechanics around and none had any idea- everything was fine (spark, fuel line,…

I really liked the “Rallycross on a golf outing budget” where you had Clarkson, May and Hamster giving up on the cynicism of torturing each other for laughs and legitimately cheering each other on during their races. For all that TG was pretty scripted, it was clear that at least on that day they really were having a…

Prius counterpoint: I just did a ~3400 mile roadtrip in my 2017. Much of it was done at ~80mph through places like Texas.

The current generation Prius is an attractive car. Beats the living shit out of the generic “melted shoebox on shoebox” SUV that everyone drives- at least it has a personality

Thanks for noticing the hood, or rather the lack of seeing it when you are in the car. It’s literally what sold my wife on one- she was tired of sitting in cars with massive, elongated hoods that blocked forward visibility, especially since we live in a neighborhood with lots of small kids and dogs.

I’ll never know exactly since the speedometer in my 1998 Subaru Legacy broke around 220K miles. I drove it for a couple of years after that (Hey- it had a tach, I knew how fast I was going), so probably 240-250

My Dad’s old 65 Ford Fairlane was Jugurtha.  It fit.

Damn, takes me back to my grad school days. Since I was in the Guard at the same time I could afford a (used) ‘84 RX-7, dark grey with red interior.

Leaded gasoline.  Nothing else comes close 

Hell, depending on the headwind the normal traffic on I-81 was going faster than I was during training in a Cessna 152.

I miss my manual transmission cars, but I’ve found driving a hybrid has some of the same demand for attention. (Yeah, yeah, I know, but still)

NP, no question. A Prius Prime of near vintage (2017 - no 2016) is 18-20k in similar condition. (Although you’d have to check why they replaced the pads and rotors- in hybrids those are practically lifetime parts)

The first 90% of the work takes 90% of the time

Some planes they Got Right.

This.  My old car was blue, except for a couple of months in the spring when it was yellow.  My current car is boring silver, but it looks that way all year