If you’ve ever seen a 500 in the steel, you’d know the couple in back don’t have legs.

I’d love to have this car for what it’s worth, which is about $15k.

You know what? I’ve got a truck (2017 Nissan Titan Pro-4X) in my driveway right now. If you drove by, you’d probably pronounce it a driveway queen because it’s new, shiny, and clean.

Chicken tax. The answer to why we do t have a more competitive light truck market is always the chicken tax.

Fair. We have two Mitsubishi dealers, both part of large multi-brand dealerships, within 100 miles of us, so I don’t see their advertising enough to know they’d fallen to that shtick. On the other hand, we’ve got 7 Kia dealers in that same range, and the only one not doing that “We finance anyone.” just closed.

Wagonmaster is a totally different (and vastly inferior) thing. There are numerous other folks doing the same sort of thing now.

The steering is horribly vague, and the big boxy SJ Jeep seems to just wander all over the place. 

Sit in one. Luxury isn’t just about Teutonic austerity or absolute performance.

We had a 2015 Titan and a 2015 Altima, both of which had crap displays. The 2017 Rogue and 2017 Titan we have now are better, but both fall far short of world class.

I’m going to chalk up the incompetence to Toyota’s move to Texas from California. They may have tax breaks and cheaper office space, but it’ll take them 20 years to recover from the loss of institutional knowledge they’ve suffered, since they suffered 25% attrition in the initial move and a good chunk of additional…

In the end, it all depends on what you’re using your vehicle for.

As someone with two 2017 Nissans in the driveway right now, my biggest beef with them is their criminally archaic displays. I’ve got disposable Chinese gizmos with better rendered on-screen menus than either of my cars. Hell GENERAL MOTORS has better graphics and interfaces than Nissan right now.

In college, I actually had a temp job where I was tasked with fixing the English in instruction manuals from a Japanese company. They decided that it was too expensive to bother with after about 3 months.

Definitely cheaper than your other option for a Ferrari powered wagon.

It’s a tough conversation when you’re judging behavior in history by modern standards.

They’re genuinely cool and they work.

They’re genuinely cool and they work.

It’s no better on a dirt road. Played with one that belonged to ski friend around Aspen one summer. It was very truck like in all the wrong ways.

Well, it’d be easy enough to do in the tax code. It might not be a de jure  prohibition, but it’d sure as hell be de facto.

And it’s not just German cars. We tossed sold a Volvo over a $2000 repair. It didn’t need the repair imminently, but it was going to need it soon. Carmax gave us $6000 for it, so I’m not crying.