As I recall from a video from one or two years back, there are some Mini Countryman parts. They are the Headlights, tail lights, and front windscreen. Everything else (EVERYTHING) is bespoke. The body is all carbon fiber and based on the countryman design, but scaled up slightly. And it's a tube chassis obviously.

"significantly improved" won't take much, because the current truck is largely unchanged since 2005, aside from updates to the AV system (which were likely pushed out due to backup camera requirements.)

"Resurrect?" That's a pretty dire word. I'm a + subscriber, and I do enjoy the crew minus Chris (nothing against Chris.) Is it coming to an end?

It really isn't good to drive in stock form.

We don't get these here for a myriad of reasons, but the number one deal breaker is the 25% excise tax on light trucks otherwise known as the chicken tax. We need a full-on campaign to repeal the chicken tax. It's an outdated tax with questionable motives that hurts U.S. consumers and even U.S. companies - hell, even…

NC Miata. (Third/current gen, for those who don't speak Miata.)

To drill down deeper into what he's talking about, this is a good place to start: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=…

RX-8 suicide doors are the best. Most comfortable ingress/egress of any sports coupe by miles.

I bet they regret this. I do most of my car shopping in Des Moines, I guess I'm lucky I never stopped in to see this guy...

No kidding. Toyota even has a newer, more powerful, more fuel efficient version of the 1GR-FE 4.0L V6 that's in the 4Runner, Land Cruiser and outgoing FJ Cruiser and has been since '09-10. They forgot to upgrade the Tacoma and here we are four years later... I have a 2014 V6 with a manual transmission and the best…

Pretty much this. Liftoff oversteer will teach you real quick to NEVER LIFT. (2011 JCW owner.)

Really, this depends on the car and gearing. In my truck, I never downshift to first unless I'm in a parking lot and I want to crawl along. Doing it on the street needlessly revs the engine too high. In my JCW Mini, on the other hand, where redline in first is 40MPH, I downshift to first quite a bit. You can…

I literally just bought a 2014 4x4 Tacoma with a manual. I'm not impressed by the extra 500 pounds of towing capacity and (probably better) fuel economy if I can't row my own.

I admitted that it was good for shifting gears slowly. If you want to do a lazy downshift with perfect smoothness, it's great.

Wrong. If you're truly good at heel-toe, you're blipping the throttle as soon as the clutch is disengaged. That system has to wait for you to make a move with the gear lever.

Two things:

Perspective compression. The camera is far away, and zoomed in. Look at how short the runway appears to be.

FJ Cruiser. Before I bought a Tacoma I really wanted one of these, but after driving it back to back with a bunch of other vehicles, I couldn't believe how hard it was to see out of. It tics most of the boxes: vertically squished windows, enormous C pillar for no real reason, and a tire taking up a good chunk of the…

I like the NA, and the NC was a huge disappointment to drive. Suspension too mushy. Will I like the ND?

What's worse than that is speedometers that are intentionally wrong. This applies to 2nd gen Minis at least - and perhaps all BMWs - but the speedometers (both digital and analog) all read 4-5% fast. Mind you, the odometer is dead on. The speedometer error is programmed in intentionally, at the recommendation of…