I would be pretty pissed if I wrote in and got responses from the two slide show guys and the video game guy.

It is a sad day when Tom has the wildest (but most correct) idea. Have you guys fired Torch? This is pretty much right up his alley. I’m in kinda the same boat as the writer: 50 kinds of (all the same) 2-row SUVs, but where’s the weird?

Writer has a decent budget and wants something funky, and unique.

The Toyota 4Runner is like a dancer at the Clermont Lounge; somehow the older and more rough they look, the more I feel the urge to throw money at them.

Yeah, exactly. And this one looks phenomenal underneath. At this point in the 3rd gen game you’re buying them based on the condition of the frame. Body panels, mileage—all the stuff people are bitching about here—are totally secondary to the condition of the frame and the mechanicals. This one has a perfect frame and…

The people ND’ing this don’t have any concept of the current used car market or the value for preowned 4Runners. Even if we weren’t in a used car price-pocalypse, it would probably still be worth $7k at Cali prices.

Not likely. Everyone seems to think this, but every prior version they point to (wagons, minivans) never made up a majority of the market. Crossovers do, and it’s not particularly close.

My cousin has a Dodge Intrepid that ticked over 200k last year. Commendable by the car, but no less masochistic by him to be driving a 20 year old Dodge Intrepid.

Hello my fellow Jalops — I was thinking we should start a car company. All you need is a passion for cars, making grandiose promises, and then not delivering on any of it. I feel like we’ve known each other for a while, and with our shared knowledge and ability to creatively riff together, I think we could put…

Unfortunately, numbers don’t lie, and the manufacturers that have and read those numbers know exactly what we’re going to buy.

What the Hell are you talking about?

There are lots of cities outside of New York. Everything off of the eastern seaboard, this is a great sized vehicle.

IDK about that. The Maverick is smaller in every dimension with a far more up to date interior and should ride much better. The seat height and stepover height are most assuredly many inches lower than the Ranger’s given its relation to the Escape and Bronco Sport. Additionally, even in its least efficient powertrain,…

There are these concerted efforts to transform Joe Rogan into the new Rush Limbaugh, which is something Rogan isn’t and doesn’t want to become.

Yeah, Limbaugh is propaganda, full stop.  There’s a massive difference.  Rogan’s dumb and he has questionable ideas but his agenda isn’t to distort reality.

David- I learned to drive stick on a late 70s U-type Mack truck. I currently row my own on the track with a 981 Cayman S. My first car was a manual ‘86 Wrangler that my father generously bought. The first car I bought for myself post college was a MT ‘94 Ford Probe GT. I am on my 4th straight Audi but my first that…

Is someone going to explain to David that for literal decades, MT’s were a cheaper option, and that there are lots of applications where they’re rare because they’re a horrible idea?

Jeep only built roughly 1,500, and I’m about to own four of them

David, I think you’re great.

If everything is a Holy Grail, then really nothing is, right?