As much as I loathe these shitboxes, they were what made Jeep able to sell the Wrangler. Income from lower on the totem pole vehicles makes the fun vehicles happen.

Have you been drinking? (And trust me, no judgement).

1st Gear:

I’ve lived in New Mexico (which is not exactly automotive Mecca) and Arizona for the past four years, but I spent last June in Massachusetts. One thing that I just not wrap my head around was how beat to shit so many cars looked, between not just rust, but rust HOLES and sheer number of dents. I like not seeing or…

I am a man of simple tastes.

JK Wrangler (2007-present).

I actually like minivans and have never had an issue driving one. I just have no use for four doors myself and like the look of two better.

The speeds you just described are about the same as the issues I have with my ‘11 Wrangler with the anemic 3.8l v6.

I always loved two-door SUV’s. I had a two-door Ford Explorer in college, and I drive a Wrangler Sport now. Something about four doors screams “family-hauler” to me.

$1300 and it runs? NP all day.

I hear you. My ‘11 JK has a bad clockspring rendering the steering wheel controls useless, a gas cap indicator that won’t shut off,

Base model Nissan Versa.

Which is why I put “Mr. Fusion” on my JK Wrangler. It sounded better than 3.8L V6. I did eventually peel the Sport and Wrangler decals off as well.

My dad had an ‘84 (first model year) Caravan with no rear wiper, red with the same red interior as above, the small 4cyl and a stick. He loved it, except he said that the red interior faded due to all of the steam-cleanings needed from various toddler vomit (me and my two siblings).

I’ve never used Lyft, but I have used Uber with good results. I just think that people by and large won’t ditch their cars for ride services because there is no sense of it being theirs. Millions of people like their cars because they do belong to them, and they know exact who sat in that seat.

So, he is basically predicting the rosiest possible outcome for his company and assuming that is what everyone will automatically want just because? Good luck with that.

“Buy a hardtop” or “just keep the obnoxious, floppy roof up all the time” aren’t solutions grounded in reality. Those are signs of Stockholm Syndrome, but with cars. “Get a small trailer if you need to haul extra stuff” isn’t an acceptable answer, either. Nor is “if you’re worried about break-ins, just move somewhere…

Have you ever hated a car because you knew someone that drove one, and they’re an asshole?

My first apartment after grad school had garage units at a very reasonable price ($50/month). If tenants used those for their vehicle projects, the apartment complex had no problems. If one of my neighbors there had a perpetually non-working vehicle out in the open (unlike yours, a temporarily disabled vehicle), I…