I wrote the “FJ Cruiser Buy/Sell Guide” on FJ Cruiser Forums years ago, but I’m not here to recommend an FJ Cruiser.

Some context for those of you not from Colorado, who don’t know the circumstances of what happened beyond what you’re reading in this article.

Toyota didn’t really advertise the FJ after the first few years, sales dropped like a rock from 2009 to 2011 and barely broke 10,000 for the last 4 years it was sold.

I help run a large FJ club here in Denver. We drive past Crosstreks, Outbacks, Foresters parked at the trailheads and keep going.

My wife and I have owned as many as 5 cars at one time, I pay gasoline taxes on the cars that use gasoline and I pay state registration on every car.

As a contrast to Tesla build quality. I’ve had both extremes, panel gap issues on the Tesla don’t matter. It’s a lazy way of dismissing their accomplishment.

And you don’t even want to imagine the shit storm that would have followed, had the title been decided under a safety car.

Then create the “Elon Musk” rule for when a company gets so big that the subsidies can be repaid easily.  Or better yet, make the company re-invest that money in other companies that can benefit.  I just don’t understand the point of criticizing somebody for becoming wildly successful when we waste a ton of money…

1) He’s a colossal douchebag. This is undisputed. I could expand for pages, but I’m sure you have google and twitter and whatever else so rehashing here isn’t beneficial.

I’m not saying that mine didn’t have issues.  Mine had panel gap issues and the hood was flimsy, I’m saying it didn’t matter.

This is my major annoyance with the new Supra, it was not Toyota letting the engineers off the leash but the beancounters slotting a car at a price/performance point that doesn’t steal sales from anything below it (86) or above it (RC-F). I jokingly say I’m going to get a REALMK5 license plate, which would be…

I made $6K on my Y after 18 months / 16K miles, but these times aren’t typical.

Somebody had to buy one :-) and yes the car is stunning, the number of heads it turns on every drive is nearly countless.

It’s heavy but you don’t feel it. The sound, especially when the baffles are open and it upshifts, is unbelievable.

and they’ve shown absolutely no effort to improve

Slide 8, a hearse?

“Bodgeable: Oil leaked out because drain plug melted; replaced with wine cork and cooking oil on roadside, got home.”

A well-off car collector friend of mine tells a story about getting called by his friend to look at a car once. His friend is a salesman at a dealership, and they had this interesting car come through.

Funny story, the targa roof latches on the delSol work exactly the same as the ones on the targa (‘95+) NSX.

I started with a ‘97 delSol in 1999. Divorce and forced sale caused a big gap, then ‘06 S2000 in 2012. Next was a ‘00 NSX in 2017. I auctioned the NSX a few months ago on BringATrailer and replaced it with an LC500 convertible.