I raise you:

Coworker of mine owns a ‘97 NSX, ‘03 S2000 and a CRX that he autocrosses.

The reality is that the Red Bull team had a better tire strategy and Max had more grip at the end of the race, he essentially outraced both Leclerc and Bottas by ~7 seconds over the last 12-15 laps of the race. He deserved to win.

Do you really need a 7.3 liter V8?

I’m happy to give bonus points to any “offroad” model of a vehicle that comes with Duratrac tires. Just slapping some BFG AT KO2's on is lazy. I spend 10-15 weekends a year offroad in the Colorado Rockies and you can count the BFG’s on on hand, where half the trucks there will be on Duratracs.

It’s fine that you love Toyota and love spouting their reliability crap

The Journey is the cheapest 3 row CUV on the market, hence bought by families with tight budgets.

Lexus/Toyota are great examples actually. They are generally in the older person, meticulous maintenance camp, in turn, their reliability is generally “good”.
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Counter with Dodge/Chrysler. They are generally bought by lower income people who tend towards abusing their vehicles while doing minimal maintenance, in…

Yes, the average Subaru WRX owner may fit a different profile than the average Toyota Camry owner. But we aren’t given data to that level of granularity, we’re given Toyota vs Subaru. And I’d suspect that the owner profile for your average Subaru owner isn’t so different from your average Toyota owner, beyond Subaru’s…

Likewise, overall reliability means nothing without ownership/maintenance records to back it up.
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Reliability reports miss out on these key points, which IMO, make them pretty useless.

Obligatory idiotic post about head gaskets

Living in Denver, we’re surrounded by Subarus. The mid 2000's Subaru crowd acts like a head gasket failing is no big deal. The early 2010's Subaru crowd acts like a little bit of oil consumption is to be expected.

If you want a pure driving experience, like what is offered in the old NSX, you probably drive a Toyobaru BR-Z/86 today. That’s as pure as it gets.

There’s like a billion choices for an automatic wagon out there with lot of gears. It’s called an SUV.

So, you only buy 10 year old Lexuses because you don’t like the grill on a brand new one.

You’re going to see a lot of this over the next 18 months. He’s got a measured response to things that comes across as a lot more genuine than a Bill Clinton type. He also seems like the type of person to never have a “you didn’t build that” moment.

Same comment, why would you buy this over a nicely equipped 4Runner?

I wonder how many potential customers they have put off.

The panel gap issue is one that is purely cosmetic and unrelated to the vehicle’s utility.

How do the proud union workers buying the same products they make, not care one bit about how well those products are made?