#4 Design

I really liked the article and the writing is talented, but it does go off the rails in the final 1/4 (no pun intended).

So the mention here:

Completely loaded question with multiple perspectives, but no new car I buy today will be the 2002 4Runner we brought our newborns home from the hospital in, the 2005 Odyssey—first car we bought new and went everywhere across the country in with little tykes, the car I taught my daughter to drive a manual in (‘17…

Rainbow road. I hate that fucking track.

Anyone’s first car

Coulda been worse...looking at you Ford

I find the whole thing rather deflating, personally.

I bought one new. Sold for a pile of gold last year (and would’ve been higher this year, but nobody can time the market!) If the factory had made the top to come off, I never would’ve sold it, but that was what kept it from being carfection.

I was always partial to its Sebring predecessor

The minivan. When we finally had enough money to buy a vehicle in 2005, I needed something that could haul: kids, diapers, wipes, home improvement, family, non-family, road trips. Maybe splurge on the flip down DVD player.

“Damn, these things are (still) fast!”

I think this is in line for the “most overrated after it was initially hated, but then became a movie car” article.

Many look a whole lot better than today’s modern gobbledygook

Not a pantaloons dropper.

FD RX7

Ah, good. A new toyobaru. Here we go again in the comments...

“The magical money and debt gravy train.”

Wah, wah wah, wah, waaaaaaaa

I don’t dislike the mk8 looks on whole, but I’m not digging the close encounters of the fifth kind fog lights.