I still have an affinity towards old fords, but I won’t be buying any new ones again

The CVT in it is fine. The flex started shifting hard and slipping at about 70k miles. Yeah it’s less space, but we didn’t need the third row and it was a bitch to park.

I’ve owned mostly Ford cars and trucks my entire driving life (15 years) but we've soured on the brand recently. We just traded in my wife's Flex for a RAV4 and I'm seriously contemplating getting rid of my Focus. Quality is not what it used to be and the vehicles are starting to fall apart around 80k miles now.

Who hurt you?

I regularly haul my two kayaks and gardening supplied in my hatch. It does it wonderfully. If you want to haul around stinky things it’ll pull a small trailer just fine. I have a buddy with a mini cooper that is into RC planes and he pulls a custom built trailer for it all.

Man I hope you’re wearing your flamesuit today - these comments are insane!

I agree wholeheartedly - I’ve always hated sedans. SUVs and Trucks for hauling stuff, coupes for looking sexy and hatchbacks for everything else.

You are the devil. I worked at six flags while this was their main marketing song and it played on a loop all summer long...

My parents both owned some cool cars- here are a few I know of from my mom

Definitely! This is one of the reasons I love motorcycles - you’re exposed and feel everything, it is truly wonderful!

When growing up we used to watch the ball game with the TV muted and the radio on. We liked the radio announcer better. To be fair though the radio announcer was Jack Buck, as this was St Louis in the 90s.

This made my day, awesome take on this.

That sucker looks more awesome than I can comprehend. While I’m sure it’ll end up well out of my price range, as of now it is in a price range I can still reasonably day dream of buying($5k). I’m sure it won’t stay there for long though.

I have a similar problem. I grew up in the midwest in a farming community close to a city that had manufacturing plants from the big 3 and a grandfather who worked for GM until he retired.

I loved the floor mounted high beam switch. With a stick in particular it was great because it let me keep both (or if shifting one) hand securely on the steering wheel.

I have been tempted by a Discovery for a few years now. They are getting cheap enough it’s getting serious...

As I understand it, they get too much snow and cold for salt. They plow when it gets bad, but mostly just drive on snowy roads.

I have a coworker that used to live in Montana - he has not been helping my desire to do this...

Yeah, I live near St Louis and while not the worst area, you can’t find anything more than 10 years old without rust. It is not fun...

I was in Montana in the fall for work and as I live in the rust belt it was a beautiful wonderland filled with old trucks and cars in amazing shape. I have been dreaming about a 1 way plane ticket there and road trip back ever since.