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i’ve been a passenger in one and it reminded me of being in the back of 1950s Morris estate car.

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Tercels have the Extra Low gear and proper 4wd making them quite unstoppable off road even with only 70 odd horseypowers out of the box.

Truckducken 

Yet here we are. Bless his grease stained socks.

bouncing off the Jalopmeter.

https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2021/09/junkyard-find-2017-toyota-mirai-fuel-cell/

I guess you would buy a Forester then? But everyone says they are ugly because the back is so big on them.

See also BMW

Transmission or drivetrain? I’m fine with them both TBH the CVT in the last couple of years isn’t great but its not terrible either and gives good mileage and the x mode is better than the respective competitors offerings

Prison Van comes to mind.

that could be interpreted as the first sports wagon sold in the rest of the world where as the Eagle was only available in North America. I dunno. Marketing huh. 

The answer would have to involve Hydropneumatic suspension. I offer the Citroen C6

Auto Zeitung has a lot of interesting quirky photos in their archive. I want to become a member just to download the photos of this Toyota Tercel 4wd that was driven over the English Channel with giant bigfoot tyres.

Divorce in 1970! Heresy!
Also, kids were the crumple zone.

The problems happened when they tried to make the flat 4 air cooled water cooled by adding a water jacket in the VW T3.

I’m not sure about the USA but in Australia. A lot of stuff went on roof bars (usually badly tied down), trailers were common to buy and rent as most cars were 6 cylinder and had tow bars and there were quite a lot of utes (el caminos) around.

Well houses were a lot smaller 50 years ago there is that but I guess glof clubs and suitcases are a fairly standardised unit. I imagine furniture purchases were rare as it was still expensive to buy furniture and was expected to last a long time so probably delivered before flat packing.

Pao vibes are strong

Did you not read and practiced it for a long time” 15 years working including branding. Now working in other fields of design. Thanks for asking.

So Volvos only had there reputation as safe and solid only in 1959 onwards.. Uh OK. How did they sell so many amazons? Looks, performance? Perhaps you have a USA market only