Lockheed Martin.

I’m gonna go out of the box here and say General Electric, mainly because they’re a huge corporation that has the wherewithal to see the project through (aka no vaporware), and they have a long history in providing solid electrical products.

Full on non car company: Samsung. Always solid products across their range.  They are the company that others copy.

Lego, and they already do.

I don’t understand the hate. This thing is in 100x better condition than any of David Tracy’s $500 project jeeps.

If you’re crazy about old Jeeps, have either no or an understanding spouse, an unused garage that you can occupy for a couple of years, and a bunch of disposable income, this might be for you. Or not.

I miss David Tracy.

No dice. It can still be saved, but $2,500 is too much for something that needs so much work. Chunks will fall off of the body when you lift it from the frame. You have to go in assuming the the power train and running gear are toast. You’ll pay out the ass for the hard top if you want one, whether you find a survivor…

26' moving van.

Subaru 360. Cramped, slow, loud at speed, not that reliable, and scarce parts. Did I mention no air conditioning?

I drove a 1986 Toyota MR2 across the country.

Come on now, you couldn’t have forgotten about the Peel P50.

still can’t match a good steam engine/flywheel hybrid

It’s actual range depended on how long you could blow without getting light-headed.*

As someone who lives in the upper midwest, where cars go to slowly rust in to absolutely nothing, I’d buy this for $4k and then just run it in to the ground over the next decade.  Damage > rust any day.

It appears the actual “bumper” is there, what’s missing is the cover?

This is not my type of vehicle at all - but if I needed a low cost driver, it’d do in a pinch. And I’d probably enjoy driving it - but not filling it. 

Each and every SUV. Space is at premium in the city. If you are driving one of those obese douchedozers, you are not only making life harder for yourself, but also for the people around you. There are parking garages here where my Mazda 2 wont fit between 2 SUVs in a row of 3 parking spots. For what? Look at this…

Might as well take the correct answer of full-sized pickup one step further, and say a high-roof Transit. Not only is it a huge footprint, they’re tall, and if you’re not paying attention, you can write one off by driving it into the wrong garage (since unibody).