I hand-wash, polish, and wax the hell out of my 41 year old Mustang II. It’s an all day project, and I enjoy it, and the results are stunning.

It is literally a dressed-up Frontier. Great little trucks if taken care of.

Like hell. Former Suzuki tech (two dealerships) here.

I had a 1999 GMC Sierra regular cab short bed with bucket seats and a console. It had the 4.8L V8 and the 4L60 automatic, and 3.73s in it’s diff.

I love it, I really do, but I’d rather build my own. At half the asking price, I’d be all-in, at $7-8k I’d consider it, but at $11k? No way.

And was so much fun in spite of it.

Bob Lutz is involved, so it will go bankrupt or get sold to someone else soon.

RPM matters less than you think. The load the engine is moving, the conditions it is doing it in, and the terrain it is doing it on are all more important than a few hundred rpm here or there.

Ironplanet/Truckplanet/Govplanet routinely has old construction equipment, trucks, and buses for next to nothing. I bought my 18-ft trailer for $600 there. Cheapest one like it on CL was twice that.

As someone who has turned wrenches on all but one of these cars at some point... Here’s my $0.02

Chrysler 300 is about as close as you’ll get, but it’s at least PART Mercedes.

It’s not just landlords and HOAs. Some cities have ordinances about such things.

When they came out they looked great. Then the refresh brought an ugly front end and sales dropped. Then they didn’t keep the 2.0 turbo and sales dropped more. Throw in that drifting, drag racing, or autocrossing the car WILL break the rear diff, and you’ve got a dud.

If Ford was honest about their fuel economy ratings, I’d be in an F250 instead of my F150.

That’s better than the 15-17mpg my N/A 3.7L F150 gets... I got better with a 4.7L Ram and a 4.8L GMC. My 2014 F150 was my first brand-new vehicle. My next one won’t be a Ford.

It's not the rotory knobs that are the problem. It's the video-game like hammer-shaped shifters that have no feedback in the 300 and Grand Cherokee.

If the F150 or F250 was eligible for this, and handful of friends might go in together on one, and drive something more economical as a daily (I might be game for that, 15-16mpg highway in an “economical” 3.7L F150 is getting really fucking old), but beyond that, I just don’t think the plan is a good idea for Texas.

They should charge the son of a bitch with attempted murder and put him away for life if convicted.

Neutral: I care. I’ve only owned domestically-produced vehicles from domestic brands at this point. Toyota, Honda, and Kia/Hyundai would be the leading challengers to that streak at this point, as would VW if they'd sell the Amarok or the Scirroco here.

I swear you’re desperately trying to find something that’ll go 100% CP these days. I don’t know what the NP voters are smoking on this one. I love the Probe/MX-6 twins, they were fanfuckingtastic cars, but this one’s been ruined.