Do they ever test roof crush on these things?  It’s great they can stop and not kill pedestrians, but if someone over corrects on something like this, you can lose control and roll.  

Wait, I saw this movie...Captain America doing non-Captain America Stuff.

Ask “What would Frank Lloyd Wright drive?” Then buy the Volvo in the closest thing they have to Cherokee Red.

Clean the fuel system with Massengill.

These columns where the guy/girl is down on his/her luck and the suggestions are “buy a 30 year old x” or a grey market RHD import, seems a bridge too far and should be re-titled “What car shouldn’t I buy?” Suggesting a buyer sell his plasma to make the down payment or for the inevitable repairs isn’t good advice.

I was trying to be nice. And very optimistic.  

You can get one of these with one of the inline sixes (albeit not the 3.0) for not much more $.  And if you’re going to buy this one for $2100, then have to spend $1500 in time and $ on the various issues, you want to have more power than what the 4 cylinder wheezed out.  

Have been looking at the Z3/4 roadsters and come across these occasionally.  I don’t like the Z4 roadster enough to buy one, but the coupe is a whole other story.  

Only in Australia do you survive near decapitation by road sign then get killed sitting in your living room by the snake/spider/etc of unparalleled venom that is present in mass quantities in every domestic neighborhood.

The 2002 is cool, but not so sure as a DD in the age of giant SUVs/CUVs. I’d want the kids to have something that had an airbag or two at least.

Hopefully you got some Bodo’s while in Charlottesville before you headed back. Good road trip food for  an 11 hour drive.

Looks somewhat like a volvo XC-40

You’re driving with one hand and looking at vehicles that are top heavy and can roll over if you lose control (like on, say, snow/ice covered roads). Perhaps, humbly, you should consider an AWD wagon-ish type thing, like a Flex.  

He’s a Toyota guy and no one suggested a 4-Runner or Sequoia? $25k buys a lot of either.  

As long as it’s one of the non-spontaneously combusting Souls, you’re correct:

That’s exactly what I thought for “farm truck.” You can pick up the ones that aren’t street legal at ironplanet for a song.

Although they’re calling it a Ranger, it sure looks like a Sport Trac.

+1 on ecoboost Flex. If he’s rolling with two car seats, I don’t really think his ex will allow him to roll in some 40+ year old car with her kids? THAT won’t lead to any fights at the designated exchange spot and eventually more lawyer’s fees fighting the modification of the child custody agreement.

Just build the Death Star while you’re at it.