Yup. People always forget about Mazda. In recent years they’ve beaten Lexus and Toyota in terms of reliability scores. Compared to others in that price range Mazdas drive better, have better interiors, and are equally if not more reliable. The only weakness may be a lack of hybrid power train options; but that’s…

N/A Mazda CX-5. Sure, they’re a little slow, but there’s not much to go wrong. I have a N/A Mazda 6 with almost 140k on it, and the only thing that’s broken has been the serpentine belt tensioner.

The Coupe GT was good but the 4000 Quattro was better in all regards except handling. I have owned both and the Coupe GT was the best handling FWD car I have ever driven...

BS. The 4000 Quattro’s are still being bought by collectors. However, the 5000 didn’t have a good reputation when new, as they really suck to own. While my 84 4000Q is still a reliable daily driver, and I still get asked if I want to sell it. With an odometer stuck at the low 200ks as it broke about 20 years ago. Yet…

4th generation Nissan Pathfinder.

Not a bad wheel, but certainly not even close to the best Audi wheel. I mean off the top of my head, you’ve got the B5/B6 S4 wheel which is way better I think:

The Mazda5. It was a rare vehicle with the parent-friendly sliding rear doors that hadn’t morphed into a 4,500 pound behemoth. You could even get it with a stick, which other minivans had stopped offering a generation ago. The Transit was the only other vehicle comparable to it, but of course it has also gone the way…

I always found it weird how David Tracy wouldn’t shut up about how great the Jeep 6 was, but every single fucking vehicle he had with it had severe engine problems. Like...if it really is that good, shouldn’t you have at least one vehicle that didn’t require major engine surgery?

Nice truck, but you lost me with the 3 valve 5.4 Triton. 

I’ve bought a cop car before and damn that Plymouth Fury could handle—un-effing-believable how good it was. The old man bought two cop cars years apart and was pleased with both purchases. And I’ll say this about police interceptors: you’re talking a lot of low stress highway miles on the vehicle as compared to a city…

Good, but not my favorite. No Mike Myers character can compete with Philip the Hyper Hypo.  Admittedly, if there was a 2nd skit with him, he would be annoying.  (just like I think Dr Evil and Austin Powers are great characters but after 3 movies they aren’t as fun as they could be).

So if you had 24k you’d buy a wheeled advertisement?

Both the Montero and Montero Sport were great trucks, and we leaned heavily into their real world off road racing and rally success to move them off the lot. Those were the days...

When you’re playing GTA and have 5 stars but accidently hit the cheat code to reset it to zero.

I blame authors who are too young to have driven in the 00s.

I disagree.  Government employees treat their vehicles very well.  

Leto just puts me off any project he’s involved with, leaving me conflicted about the WeWork show, which I am very much otherwise interested.

I’ve actually heard of all of these before but the author is clearly reaching a bit because at least half of these aren’t actual “challenges” (e.g. - tapeworm pills were not a challenge, people were just too vein and too dumb to know it wasn’t a smart way to lose weight; panty raids weren’t a “challenge”, they were…

Utter bull-crap. Other than the streaking challenge, I have never heard any of these. At least not in the scale that your stupid tik-tok teens are committing to, which is whom lifehacker seems to be pandering to.

Maybe some of that $7k could be spent on a therapist to help deal with the problem of making decisions and then whining about them?