I for one love it! Like really, really want this...but not $50K love it, need to keep waiting. I have been daydreaming about doing this to a nice custom car or truck, live where it would fit in with the neighborhood while also being a sleeper.

If you are trying to raise or keep your credit score, pay it off and continue to use the credit card while trying to zero out the balance every month. The article states that carrying a balance on unsecured loans/debts hurts your credit score. If you are able to prepare for the maternity leave/bills ahead of time, you…

I’m intrigued by your opinions and would like to subscribe to your newsletter. Great picks in all the follow-ups too.

Yuck, hard pass. 

Tom is correct here, hard to admit it though.

Why don’t those passenger door slide open automatically? Try an AWD minivan instead, all the features you listed with more convenience.

Off a bunt!

I will definitely look forward to you writing more. I have daily enjoyed the io9 site, its content, writing, and having better editing than most other Gizmodo sites. I credit a lot of that to you, but enjoy your writing even more. Best of luck to you in all future endeavors!

Everybody gets to take a turn to the dark side.

Yeah....I’m going to need to see the receipts for the gas-mileage difference claim. Because of the minivan.

This exactly. My brothers cruise copart all the time and have actually purchased a total wreck, so that they could use it as the “base” of some other Frankenstein build that doesn’t really have anything to do with the original, other than it donated the VIN so they could register it in the end.

The team at Wisecrack is great. Their Show Me the Meaning! podcast is one of my favorites, going into the philosophy of directors and movies. They really do love film and cinema.

The 4-banger is just a minivan without sliding doors. That’s all these cross-overs are, inconvenient minivans.

I’m just super glad that the salt will be dry enough this year for runs. I might try to make it out to see some.

Could this be the one true comment? Or do your comments from the Japanese version of deadspin count?

Thank you! You saved me from having to write up the same thing. Too much Hollywood for people to understand this concept.

My parents bought my grandparents Buick from them (230k miles on it at the time) so that I could have something to drive when I turned 16. After 6 months of good driving, my dad called and told me he had bought me a car...and that I needed to go get a loan to pay for it...all.

I went to college with him, not the same years, but we overlapped for a year. I can confirm he is this crazy, but is fully committed to what he says he will do.

Great and cool article, Mack.

Can confirm. My uncle has owned one since new and let me drive it when I was 19. 15 years later and I still think about it. Everything about that car was perfect in my opinion (except for the smell...he is a smoker).