Agreed... Personally, I’d just get the manual (of course I don’t have to deal with snow). But it looks like she gets by fine with FWD in the snow.

I think I’m on to something here...

I don’t understand why it’s so funny, but I can’t stop laughing. The more I try to stop, the more my muffled snorts of laughter spurt out, further confirming my weirdness to the surrounding hell of a cube farm I currently reside in. Help.

Well aren’t you a badass, is that what you wanted to hear? I’m missing your point, but I’m definitely picking up on your condescension. And considering people have actually died, I’m going to disagree that they weren’t in actual danger and shouldn’t have been terrified. I don’t know the roads you were on, but a…

me too.

I will never not star click a Roadmaster wagon recommendation. Regardless of the subject’s requirements. I miss mine.

I asked for this, Tom has followed up but it sounds like the subjects either haven’t purchased yet or haven’t responded. Probably just haven’t purchased yet.

Jesus Christ, THIS. I got raged while (trying) to read about rage because of this.

This was well articulated. I appreciate good story telling.

Yea I’m with you. Corsica is over the top, sure, but there’s a lot of frustrating left lane bandits in this clip.

I’d be surprised if many people on here agree with this philosophy. It seems a little impractical, and most of us like to develop a relationship with our car(s) over time as we work on/modify/personalize them ourselves. Maybe you just haven’t found a car worth keeping long term yet?

Awesome! Any feedback from subjects of past articles?

Tom, it would be really cool if we could see a follow up article to these after the requester actually makes a purchase. Would be fun to see what they actually end up with!

Yea no kidding, I was shocked. My dad bought an ‘07 new and just sold it this year for $20k with 85k miles. So they’re definitely on the high end of this price range, but an extremely versatile truck. I wonder if the fact that they’re no longer made has kept the resale value so high?

I’ve only made it west of the Mississippi a handful of times, but one of those involved a stop in Miami, OK and staying on Grand Lake nearby and I absolutely loved it. It was gorgeous and the route we took south into TX (don’t remember the Rt. numbers, but no interstates) was also a lovely drive (part of the HotRod…

Wow, I’ve never looked at another car before, and certainly didn’t compare to factory wheel arches before posting my comment. Thanks so much for educating me on vehicle dynamics.

Yea I don’t buy that. I understand some space is needed for clearance, and maybe more so when the car is stupidly low, but that doesn’t mean it has to be a lumpy and asymmetrical contour. It also looks to be much larger gaps than even factory wheel wells.

Is it just me, or are those fenders/wheel wells not shaped well at all?? They don’t follow a consistent contour, much less the contour of the tire. This is the only thing I can see and I do not like.

Of all the things to warn people about, this seems to be fairly minor. I mean, it’s not causing catastrophic failures and at the price point of these cars, for what you get, I’ll add a quart of a oil occasionally. Then again, I’m used to that with older cars.

I can’t believe I’m going to suggest that you sacrifice the manual transmission requirement... but if so, you can have one of these!! And let’s be real, as cool as these AWD wagons/cars are, they don’t offer the ride height to tackle the Moab and heavy snows of Utah.