I’d suggest a nice Jag.  Super comfortable and semi-sporty and can be had for a reasonable price when you’re not the first owner.  I had a 2000 XKR and my parents had a 99 XJR and they were both pretty fun.  Pretty sure you can get a wagon as well, but that might be more in Europe than here.

My wife and I just got a 2020 TRD Pro 4Runner about a year ago and with ~11000 miles on it I just checked and they are going anywhere from $60-68k.  I think we paid less than $60k for it if I remember right, maybe just over with taxes and stuff.  Those were always crazy for holding their value though.

Unfortunately I think structural batteries are really here to stay and the way forward and energy density and volume optimization is the primary challenge of EVs right now. You need every square inch of space you can get to store energy and if you can build structure into the pack so you don’t have to double up having…

I bought my Viper with the intent of it being my daily driver and it basically would be still if my wife’s back would put up with it.  I’ve got just about 129,000 miles on it and have no intention of stopping.  Had to rebuild the engine due to a dumb mistake where I spun a few rod bearings around 3000 miles ago, but…

You need to be careful with steering wheel covers.  If they fit too loose you can actually have the wheel turn under the cover without you necessarily feeling it.  I’ve seen it on “just rolled in” stuff enough times now.

While I agree that this is a very cool event and something that should continue and expand, I also wish people would quit saying that the ICE is going to/needs to die and that EVs will totally replace them.  That is just never going to happen and shouldn’t.  ICE has its place and always will.  Sound is just as much a…

I learned on the way home from getting my learner’s permit.  My dad stopped a few blocks from the house and had me drive home in his 94 Stealth.  I think I stalled it once or twice taking off and was slow and jerky shifting gears, but otherwise got it pretty quick.  Now I rarely want to drive anything else, though…

I wish I would have caught this question before the responses.  The funniest one I can remember was many years ago we had a Ford Explorer with 4WD.  My grandmothers house has a ditch out front and we had gone over one evening for some reason and my dad decided he wanted to try out the 4WD, so he pulled off the street…

So realistically speaking, what are you supposed to do if you are in a vehicle and completely surrounded?  That may not have been the exact case here, but it is a serious question I have.  There could be different severities of the situation, like whether people are beating on your windows or just passively standing…

I’m surprised the Viper didn’t make it as well.  Between them being fairly old now and also pretty frequently damaged by people that aren’t used to near instant torque you’d think there would be a pretty good market for reproduction parts.

I think that can get better with different printing methods and aftertreatments though.  Even on FDM prints today you can do acetone smoothing with some materials to effectively remove layer lines.

My mom has always had an appreciation for fun cars, though she may not be quite as well versed on the mechanical side.  That being said, she’s probably the reason I have my Viper as she always wanted one and finally got her 94 many years ago.  I drove it a few times and thought it was quite fun, but I wanted a roof…

I agree that a multimeter is a tool that everyone should have. However, you need to buy any multimeter but the one you got. This thing is a piece of junk and will lie to you:

I remember having a small demo or something of this game on a CD with a bunch of other DOS based games.  I could never even figure out how to make it out of the room they threw you in, but I was also never really a scary game person and wasn’t sure I wanted to get out of the room, lol.

Fair point, though I would say that the actual appraised/assessed value of my home as far as the county is concerned isn’t really the same as the current market price.  It has steadily ticked up over the years, but hasn’t really jumped the way prices have lately.  Kind of like KBB or NADA values for cars.  The “book”…

People seem to keep forgetting that being “worth” X amount of dollars isn’t the same as having X amount of dollars in the bank. Elon’s doesn’t have billions of dollars in his bank account. He owns lots of stuff that’s worth money, same as a lot of people. A lot of us “own” stuff like homes and cars (maybe with…

So the turning off the A/C to make it easier to start isn’t so far fetched and has its roots in truth.  Modern cars I will agree likely have no need for this, but on older and especially carbureted cars this was a thing.  The A/C compressor in my 71 Vette puts a very noticeable drag on the engine when turning it on…

While I don’t entirely disagree that ~$100 for less than 3 oz of fluid is quite expensive, at the same time that can go a really really long way.  I have a bottle of Armani Code my parents got me as a gift many years ago and I used to save it for special occasions as I’m not really a cologne person, but I decided to…

Also, just because at that one particular moment a mom was only carrying a single child in an oversize vehicle for the occasion is not really a valid reason to vilify her.  It’s not like people buy a vehicle for every possible occasion.  I have an SUV because my wife and I regularly make trips to Costco in the next…

Mine would be the ME412 concept car.  I was super hyped because the last time I was up at Detroit I finally had time to go to the Walter P Chrysler museum right before it shut down, but was massively disappointed that they didn’t have either of them on display.  That is probably one of the cars I would most like to…