Mustang MT-82, hands down. When the 2010 Mustang debuted, I was in love, but I waited until 2011 to drive the Coyote/MT-82 version first. I drove a 2010 with the 4.6 and TR3650 and the 2011 5.0/MT-82 back to back, and bought the 2010 based on how awful the MT-82 felt alone.

New 4Runners get taken off-road by their owners all the time. I’m part of a 4Runner group that hits trails and backroads and off-road parks regularly, and it’s almost all 5th-gens with their first owner.

NP all day.

And you should! It would lower the demand for fuel and keep gas mileage down for the rest of us.

Italian “reliability” for $23k, or Lexus RELIABILITY for $23k?

Why would you listen to this crap over the superior Chris LeDoux version?

I’m in.

No, and even more so.

I’ve driven about twenty of the current generation of Mirage between the time I spent turning wrenches for a Mitsubishi dealership and the time I spent working for the biggest used car retailer as a technician.

“I’m sure there are going to be a lot of people in the comments saying things like, “That’s it, I’m out of here! I’m never reading this site again!” First, grow up. Millions of people read this site, if you want to stop, go with god.”

Well... this is it. This is the end.

This is par for the course with UAW-built vehicles.

All of them, I’m a BMW technician by trade.

4th-gen V8 4WD 4Runner. I’m partial because I have one, but it really is my answer as well. It’s not as wide or long as a LandCruiser, but is just as capable in most respects and is still incredibly comfortable for long journeys on or off road.

I actually know of a half-dozen or more. The II community is pretty tight-knit between the forums and Facebook groups, we even have an annual national gathering.

I know these cars pretty well. I’ve owned nine Mustangs in all (four foxes, three IIs, and two S197s) and currently have a ‘75 Ghia project car.

For you or me? No. For an owner-operator or fleet owner doing LTL trucking with it? Absolutely, it’s virtually a guaranteed return on investment.

Um... former Ford dealership tech here, no, it freaking doesn’t.

My grandmother fully bought-in to that advertising hype. When I showed her my 2nd car in high school (a 1984 Camaro with the 2.8L V6) the first words out of her mouth were wondering if it was “heavy enough” because a heavy car was “safer”.

Manual transmission makes it rare, and being a chassis-cab configuration puts it in a different emissions bracket in some states. Throw in the 7.3s durability and serviceability, lack of SCR, EGR, and DPF, and low cost of operation, some commercial buyer would make their money back on this purchase over the life of…