As the owner of a 2018 Honda Odyssey I find these changes to be.....

I’m going to be a broken record here but this is why in the work truck segment, which makes up alot of vehicles on the roads, the first automaker that comes out and says “We practically rust-proofed our vehicles....go ahead and drive them in salty roads for 10 years and they’ll be fine.” Will see their brand increase…

Vintage airplane cross-trains as vintage race-car, gets confused on the straightaway.

I once got on a P38 kick and then I went and drove one.

Yes, hope my post expressed that, it’s not just politics. 

NPR, as a whole, always let me down as a news source. But I really enjoyed a few shows like marketplace.

Disclosure: 2019 wrangler 4-door sahara 6mt owner.

I have a 2019 Wrangler 4-door Sahara 6mt. A few notes:

I can buy a death trap for FARRRRRR less than this....CP

P.s. An e38 with a 6 speed manual swap just sold on BaT. Super rare. I would love to have one of those for long highway drives. From what I understood from my e39 m5 experience, the Non-M BMW v8 practically drove the same as the M-version BMW v8 at low and mid-range despite a meaningful difference in displacement. 

You don’t have to have it set aside, you just have to be able to afford it if it happens. Listen, you can buy a $4.5k subaru and should be able to afford a $2-3k head gasket job if it pops up. This is basic stuff, it doesn’t make it a CP. You just need to know it. 

So I’m going NP but this is the type of car you don’t go into without:

I’ve heard of active aero but this is ridiculous.

In 2011/2012, I was becoming a first time father. But I was a car guy first. And I decided I was going to be a dad who always owned a cool car - so let me to speak to this from personal experience after 9 years:

Good heavens, stock ~34.5" tire options. 7 speed manual option. Bimini. 325hp/400tq engine option.

NP. $4k for a 100k solid, reliable, sweet inline six + manual trans bimmer is golden. You can’t get a clean e30 for anywhere near that and let me tell you this is alot better vehicle than an e30. This is cheap Bimmer.

I voted crack pipe but here’s the thing....these wagons were made for ONE YEAR (IIRC) in GT + manual transmission form. So this truly is near unicorn status and a clean well maintained model could actually command $12k even with 110k miles on it.

Yes, there are distinct use case scenarios in which diesel makes sense. And then there are scenarios in which gas makes sense. But the diesel commonly becomes the “go to” because of things tossed around cavalierly like bulletproof engine, tow capacity, and MPG.

My point was that the engine itself can be bulletproof while everything around it (i.e. supporting parts) have issues that prove very costly over time- injectors/fueling, cooling system, etc. - to the tune of $2-4k a year quite easily while supporting a bulletproof drivetrain. My point is bulletproof engines like the…

One of my best friends has one of these and so I recognize this is a NP. However, let me say something about this,