I’ll give the nod the the Volvo in the looks dept. But BMW or MB would get my money all day long. I wouldn’t drop $55K on a nose heavy transverse engined car with sporting pretensions.

I never understood the appeal of the burnout. Peeling away I get. Chirping tires through gears, again I get it, drifting - cool. Smokey donuts are awesome fun - but you are actually moving to do all these things. The burnout is literally shredding tires while not even moving. Where is the fun in that? Shit, you might…

Runs like a charm. He had a few issues getting the AC to work and a small oil leak on a cam phaser. The part is on order and soon to be fixed. Total cost for the complete teardown and rebuild is somewhere around $6500, but included in that is the purchase of a car lift, engine hoist, some torque wrenches and a few…

Damn you. I just spent the last 3 hours reading 107 pages of forum posts. I’ve got bloodshot eyes and need to be up in 4 hours.

I loved the old shoe boxes. Built like tanks and RWD. Volvo has been meh to me ever since the 850 came out and the FWD writing was on the wall.

I fired up The Google and here’s what I’ve found. The Hemi is taller and longer. Width is similar. Different valve angles, dual plug heads, higher deck height. LS3 is 357lbs with water pump, no exhaust manifold or fly wheel. Hemi is 485lbs with exhaust manifolds, no accessories and both include all intake and ignition…

How is this an issue? All my vehicles have it. (2 VW’s and 2 Fords) I thought pretty much everything has this feature now.

RWD chassis compared to a FWD one. There is no doubt the BMW will be better in that regard.

Yeah, well 1 in 10 odds aren’t enough for me to buy an out of warranty Porsche. Rebuilds are well into the 5 figures... I’d sooner spend the additional dough on the much better looking 09+ 997 with the far more reliable DI engine.

It’s not the headlights... I can live with them. It’s the shitty IMS bearing and the possible need of a new engine...

My company is too cheap, and for that money I’d rather the Grand Cherokee. I have a boat and the POS Edge can’t tow it.

Thanks, but no. The Journey is the oldest and likely the worst of the bunch.

It’s a 2013 with the 3.5L. It gets me from A to B, and it almost always starts, so it’s better than the bus.

Proportions are all wrong. Edge has that front heavy look, with non-daylight openings and handles like shit, with a dimwitted transmission and infuriatingly late to the party AWD engagement. I suspect the E-Pace to be built on the XE chassis, which is a fantastic handling RWD based chassis. I have an Edge as a company…

Toyota neglected to mention the polished concrete surface and the constant wetting to allow the 86 the ability to get and keep the wheels spinning...

If you are swallowing a suppository, you’re doing it wrong.

Transverse engine = not interested, regardless of how pretty it is.

Just build more fucking wagons already!

That may have been true years ago, but a great deal of the engineering of vehicle components is contracted out to parts manufacturers now. Things like ball joints, fuel pumps, alternators, fuel injectors, tie rods and thousands more parts are usually third party.