grasscatcher
Grasscatcher
grasscatcher

Imagine never having blinding lights in your side mirrors at night.”

Yeahh.... a lot of the lights fail because of glare, not necessarily because they’re dim.

Petty’s version is where I first heard this song, but a short time after that I saw Lucinda Williams on her “Car Wheels on a Gravel Road” tour and have been a fan ever since.

This one uses a very crude methodology for assigning 6 points to a company if the HQ is in the US, 0 if outside. (But they cheat and give FCA 0.5 instead of 0) This is totally BS. Look in your 401k portfolio- I am sure it includes asian or EU or other international stocks. In today’s world, corporate ownership is

Yeah, I didn’t know there were diesel Chevettes until I saw Harold’s. His looked like Baghdad met Mogadishu, but it always ran and he loved it. Said it had never let him down.

I think i had one up to 18mph once...

Men of previous generations, at least truck buyers, tended be more secure abut their masculinity and didn’t feel the need to butch up with an aggressive truck.

I’ve test driven 3 Rangers, 2 without the FX4 package and 1 with. The FX4 package ruins the ride imo. It was a huge difference between the two and the FX4 equipped Ranger rode terribly compared to the other two. The FX4 is down right squirrelly, honestly. I don’t know if it’s a monster offroad, but it isn’t fit to

in every area that matters to mid-size truck buyers”

Did your research show the lift-over height of the bed walls and tailgate? That HAS to be higher. Or...the volume that can be held in the beds of old vs. new? (Obviously, higher bed walls will create higher volume.)

and the thing has the zombie-like quality of a car that just won’t die, possibly out of spite.

How about we take the powertrain out of your (or someone else’s) 2003 X-Type and put in this one? That’d solve a few problems, especially the transmission one. 

Why? The tweed is far nicer. Admittedly it was what the base XJ6 came with in the old countries, but the Japanese are not wrong in preferring cloth in their luxury cars.

I road street bikes for about 10 years and had a dual sport for about 6 months, so I get it. That route isn’t for everyone though!

How about any shade of green?

Needs Orange

LMFTFY

Or you could just buy a ‘75.

My problem Honda is that their automatics are much weaker than their manuals. I have always tended to recommend Hondas over Toyota is if people wanted a reliable but interesting car to drive especially if it were a manual. But for everyone else who just wants the most reliable thing on the road and it’s going to be