He’s right...even if it doesn’t get below freezing. You get better traction out of winter tires vs all-season starting at 40F

That’s the UK’s legendary health and safety. I wouldn’t be surprised to see British Army artillery crew wearing fluorescent vests and hard hats while pounding the shit out of their enemy.

And at the current rate of pricing decline, you won’t even have to deal with the hassle of selling it, just drop it off at the nearest auto salvage yard for scrap price!

2013 Land Cruiser!

When the Rover warranty ends in 2 and a half years, it will be replaced by a 2013 Land Cruiser.

There are lots of 2014 200 series Land Cruisers for less than $60,000 Doug....

Currently 59,998 on Carmax

People who buy new are the greatest people on the planet. I love them for taking the depreciation hit for the rest of us.

Yes. Environmental regulations would stop us from getting the SQ5 TDI.

That’s a Tahoe playing dress up

Doug, thank you for this post. I’ve been forgetting for weeks to stop and buy a new drivers side wiper blade for my truck. The one that’s on there I mangled when trying to get the windshield clean during the last snow/freezing rain event we had. Had I put the wipers up I would have saved myself the cost of a new one…

I’ll be honest, I never saw this when I lived in Michigan, it was only when I moved to New Jersey when I started to see people sticking the wipers up.

“places unfit for human life like Houghton, Michigan”

I really want to make a joke about FCA reliability, but you seem genuinely passionate about the work you did, so I'll refrain, and blame it on bean counters.

“I could bomb Fox News with a surplus Russian jet and my poll numbers would only go up! I have the best, most loyal supporters.”

I can only assume this post is meant to only apply to urban areas, despite statistics being used that apply to the US at large.. There is no reasonable “alternative” way for me to get around where I live, unless I want to run a marathon twice a day. And if not an interstate, it would significantly add to pollution, as…

Please stop with all the rational thoughts. That’s not what this article is about.

Fire!? Woah woah, he didnt get an Italian exotic here. This is and English car, with all of that frozen water in the trunk it should have plenty of weight on the rear tires.

Its pretty logical man. There’s nothing about the word “automatic” that inherently implies torque converter. It just implies that the car shifts its self. It just so happens that for the past 60 years this was done with a torque converter. Now we have alternative ways of making these work. But the fundamental point of…

I spent $59k on my 2-year-old Lancruiser. I don’t care about the badge. I would prefer the service at a Lexus dealer, but I hope I won’t be at the dealer very often.