As someone who lives in the snow belt with a shit ton of ice many months out of the year, I have used my 4WD on my mountaineer maybe 10 times in the 10 years I have owned the thing. I wonder realistically if people actually NEED 4wd versus just having the right tires and FWD. Hell, my Kia soul gets through this shit…

Spark plugs on my 98 mountaineer, have to take the tire, fender liner and use a shit load of extensions and swivels to get them out. What a pain. Doing exhaust on same mountaineer after 16 Minnesota winters. I don’t think a single bolt came out in one piece.

Suicide knob I am guessing

My parents had an 03 gt cruiser and I have to say, that car had some serious balls. Visibility was terrible, but who cares it was a turboed pt cruiser. The looks on ricers faces when they lost to a pt cruiser was priceless and never got old. The mileage was terrible. I’m not sure if it was actually bad, or was only…

Live around any farms? Guaranteed there is someone you or your family knows that lives on one and has a manual truck laying around. I learned on some POS mazda manual truck with particle board sides 3 feet above the cab loaded with engines when I was 13. Driving around fields sending said engines flying out the back.…

Yep, my 95 stratus was like this. I considered myself a car guy when I was a teenager and I couldn’t for the life of me find the battery when it died one time. My dad who is a gearhead pretty much implied I was a complete idiot “Do you not know what a battery looks like?” Well he came to show me a thing or two only to…

Have you driven in Oregon? I thought MN was bad, I thought FL and CA were bad. Oregon takes the cake, I’m talking 20-30 cars all lined up following sir-puts-a-lot with an open center lane but nobody will pass on the right.

Ugh I hate this, the highway I travel quite a bit is pretty much a 75 mile straightaway with maybe 4 slight turns in it. Every time there is some slow ass sitting in the left lane, so when I attempt to pass them on the right (illegal I know) they either speed up, or just happen to go a little faster to block you with…

I like the front, everything else...meh. Maybe if they made it into a hatch.

That body damage is minimal. the hard part would be getting the paint to match.

The sound of those rocks going under the tires is for some reason very pleasing on my ears.

I should note that I am usually going through at about 12:00-1:00am so traffic is most likely at a minimum.

I drive through Chicago every now and then on the expressway on my trips to Pittsburgh and if you are not going at least 75 you are getting left in the dust. I love it, it’s such a rush, it feels like a racing game. In MN the roads are all flat and straight. Flat out on a 10 mile straightaway is fun, but those corners…

Great, now I am going to be looking at these things all day instead of working. BTW I had no idea they made this version....http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/hnp/cto/506574…

Surprisingly tough too, my cousin and I had one that we would bomb around the farm in, haul pumpkins, tear through the woods and jump the bastard. Did I mention it only had 2 cylinders running? She topped out at about 40 but man, when you are mid jump in a metro you are on top of the world...until you bury the nose…

I feel like if they cut the grill off right below the badge, then added a thicker body colored cross member so to speak, then a smaller more conservative lower grille, then it would look at least presentable. All I see with these new lexus’ with these grills is Predator, and not in a cool aggressive kill you predator…

I do too, while they are both in fact ugly, that lexus is wayyyyy ugly.

I rock a soul and it’s not so bad....well except for I feel like I am the only one that is either under 60 and over 20 that is driving one.

I used brasso and it cuts right through that crap really well.

Didn’t that supra get made into the supra in 2fast?