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They sold ~12-13K of them a year for the last 4-5 years of the run (2010-2014).

The shame is that if Toyota ever did bring the MR2 back, there’s a big chance that they wouldn’t build it themselves.  Considering that the 86 and Supra are both outsourced.

saved you like $50k

You can regularly find off-lease GX’s under 30K miles / $40K. LX’s also depreciate to less than their Land Cruiser cousins after 4-5 years.

Section 3A of the FJCruiserForums buy/sell guide for FJs is “you should probably be looking at a Lexus GX instead”.

Late submission: lifted / armored Toyota 4Runner. Mural credit: Casey Kawaguchi.

It’s “good not great” because Honda never includes a drivetrain upgrade in any of these special editions.

Every time I pass trailhead parking and the lots are full of these, I think “I wonder how many of them have the piston ring issue”.

I wrote the buy/sell guide on FJCruiserForums, and have helped more people find / evaluate FJs for purchase or sale than I can easily count:

The funny part is that it was more work for them to paint the roof white. So the Trail Teams trucks with the color-matched roof was less work for them...and they charged us more.

Akio Toyoda’s big EV press event was kinda lumped into all the other automakers “we’re going to EVs!”, but the characterization of that announcement was (I think) incorrect.

As an offroader in Colorado, the #1 reason why the Jeep Liberty sucks is the “Jeep” badge. To most people, “Jeep” means “offroad vehicle” so when you see one of these on the trails in Colorado you simultaneously realize:

6-1 high 200's and it’s a tight fit for me too.

Buying any “luxury sport sedan” new means high depreciation costs.

She knows the reason why, she just doesn’t want to tell you.

You live in the wrong place.

That being said, I think Convertibles will recover quickly. The reason being that a lot of home owners will charge their EV in the garage, which makes convertibles very doable in EV world.

This ^^^ plus electrification / hybridization is going to make the resale and future collect-ability market for LC500 convertibles totally bonkers one day.

They’re still sold new in some parts of the world:

Andy, you should thank whoever saved you from that Suzuka blue on blue interior car. Laguna blue is much better. Blue overload: