While KBB couldn’t give me an accurate estimate for the cars price for some reason, my own research using sites like Cars & Bids, Hagerty, and Bring a Trailer showed that Zachary bought this car for about $35,000 to $ 40,000 less than what similar examples on the market were going for. Even with all those miles.…

Nearly double $30K, not even close. What gets glossed over in this article is that the car is an automatic. Those are heavily discounted over the manuals.

My selfish hope with the Ford Bronco is that it spurs Toyota into building a decent offroader again.

(Ford adds manual option)

Interestingly, that same website iSeeCars did a color preference survey and found the second least desirable color as yellow at 0.2% (just ahead of purple):

but what’s the point of buying this instead of just a new GR86

+1 to your point, most people that can afford $14K for a car can afford $20K for a car. This thing has 228K miles, for an extra $6K you can get the same car with 100K less miles:

Wife and I often own 4 niche cars: the offroader (‘18 4Runner), the convertible (‘21 LC500), the daily (Tesla Y) and the beater (‘99 Tacoma).

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You thought you didn’t belong...but did anyone else? Were you ever treated by anyone like you had no business being there?

I posted links to Car Trek and Grand Tour doing CO 141 between Grand Junction and Naturita, apparently that didn’t make the cut.

Wow, the first “Colorado” post. I give you: Colorado Hwy 141 from Grand Junction to Naturita.

Wife had the last year of Pro-4X Xterra, it was replaced by a 4Runner 3 years later for ~$8K more.

There is no one vehicle that checks all these boxes. What the Subarus make up for in MPG, they give up in capability. So you’ll be parking at the trailhead with every other non-body-on-frame no-transfer-case CVT’d compact SUV out there.

“too much for too little”

I Like the 4runner but too much for too little

I got it for the last year for Tesla, like $1800. Colorado still had a $4000 tax credit at the time.

The Y was our fourth car, so it didn’t need to solve the “only car that can do everything” problems (road trips etc) for us that the Tesla does better than other EVs.

Had my Model Y for 18 months / 16K miles, sold it for $6K more than I paid for it.  Original plan was just to get in line for another one, but now I’m waiting on the BZ4X.

From today’s press release: https://pressroom.toyota.com/the-future-is-now-toyota-launches-all-new-bz4x-suv-battery-electric-vehicle/