To be fair, it was the ‘60s, and although arc welding was pretty standard in a manufacturing sense, Oxyacetylene welding was pretty much the norm in most lower-level fabrication shops and repair shops. So electrically welded can be advertised, although it wasn’t much to brag about.

Ah, the gorgeous Giugiaro-designed Iso Rivolta! Not as quirky as the Isetta, but much prettier (in a “standard design language”... the Isetta is beautiful in its own rights).

Your Grand Wagoneer was Jeeps top of the line Luxo-barge, of course it was going to have electrically operated everything. Whether any of that is still working is the real question.

Hear hear. I hate electric seats. The “infinite adjustability” is a gimmick. They’re heavier, take too long to move, and are one of those things that if it does break, it may render the car virtually inoperable.

Cue up an Elon Musk tirade on Consumer Reports and how “ancient” they are along with a “Who still uses them anyway?” comment in 3, 2, 1...

Perception.

I feel like everyone constantly skips over the fact that suburu has some of the worst feeling interiors ever. All awful hard plastic, all the time.

Soo...horribly cheap plastics, interior design straight from 1991 and a ferocious appetite for head gaskets?

What’s the point of technological improvement if you can’t enjoy it? Also, hp’s not the important number for a truck.

I don’t poo-poo these things anymore because all I heard was 300+hp turbo engine in a RWD configuration will be available in junkyards in the future. This bodes well for crazy engine swap plans

Less then 10% of these trucks will ever tow anything bigger than a lawn tractor over their entire lifetimes. And, of those 10% of trucks that do, their towing time is only 10% on average.

As if most truck owners actually use it as a truck.

I’ve been doing this since I was 5 or 6.

You’re complicating this. This is nice, but it’s much much simpler.

1. Buy model / toy cars
2. Remove from packaging
3. Display them on your desk or shelf, or move them around on your desk while you’re on the phone
4. Make car noises
5. Offer zero fucks.

Or you could be someone who has kept driving the same 2003 F-150 all this time. The fuel cost now would be $18.13/100 miles (if the engine has been kept up to peak efficiency) or $4.33 more than the 2018. So $433 more per year based on 10k miles, but think of all the money you’d have saved not making a car payment all…

“First, this is a Toyota Camry, mechanically.”

lol is too :p

All I’m hearing is Toyota Sera. Any other car is the wrong car.

Man I hate that movie!