Because you, and countless other Jalopnik commenters screaming at automakers don’t buy things. If you did, they’d make those things.

Defenders are crap for serious use.

They would if only mainstream durability was a priority. Used Toyotas are often bought site unseen because of this reputation. Modern Land Rovers still require way too much investment of time, money, inconvenience on a daily basis. Maybe if LR stripped it down of all those crazy unnecessary electronic control systems…

Well yeah, the Prado and GX are much more closely related than the 4Runner. Since we’re talking body-on-frame vehicles here the main difference between the Prado/GX and 4Runner is the body.

No no...that was YOUR point, by lumping communism, socialism (all types??) and leftism (not even sure that’s really a thing) together into the same condemnation. Different things are called different things because: differences, was our point (although saying that in the plural makes me sound like a socialist, I’m…

Are you just young or high? Or both? The Caravan was crazy successful, Chrysler invented the market and product for it, and they were cool enough to offer a turbo version with a stick. If this is the standard we are using the judge the American auto manufacturing sector, Chrysler should be the only company still in…

Those 504s where actually well known for their reliability...

My point is that the labels really don’t matter as much as the vehicles design and capability. CUV, SUV, Crossover, etc.... is just all marketing BS. Why the obsession about which acronym fits based on your arbitrary rules? Cars can be unibody or have ladder frames, why not other vehicle types?

Yeah, because a guy who owns a medical transport company and is already driving a $50,000 Mercedes has nothing better to do than to create, out of whole cloth, a story like this for a lawsuit.

I hate to say it, but it’s likely that you are white. This still happens on a daily basis: craigslist, emails, housing rental, employment, air travel, etc. Just because you don’t experience it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.

Fair points.

No mention of the fact that, even though this guy was in the US for 30 years, his a century is INDIAN? Muslims and Hindus don’t have a lot of love. India and their neighbor Pakistan are in the nuclear club specifically because they are not friends with each other. Sure, deterrence works well to keep pea e on that…

Amazing. I come from the dealer world, and I agree that another dealer will probably do all they can to make him happy and sell a car. That is why they are there.. to sell a car. Let’s be honest. Anyone who has sold anything knows that cultural and racial bias exists in the world of sales. It is part ignorance and…

Due to the limited inventory and high tariffs, many high-end customers in those areas will pay two or three times the sticker price for a black market car.

Honestly, NJ is a pretty diverse state. There is absolutely no excuse for anybody here to not know that India is of no relation to Islamic terrorism. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, though. I still get a lot of people assuming that I must speak Spanish because I lived in Brazil.

Here in the Bay Area if you did that you’d end up with maybe two customers a day, tops. Around here if it’s a Merc, you can almost be sure the driver is Chinese, Korean, or Indian.

I would have told that dealer to go OFAC himself.