Needs:

Nah. Needs to pick his priorities. He’s into surfing, camping, mountain biking, and bikepacking. Get a boring, functional car. Spend your time, money, energy, and excitement on the actual adventures.

This is worse than their donut debacle.

I’m not 100 percent certain, but if you have enough money and willpower, you could likely build an entire 2022 Corvette using just parts from Stricker’s eBay page.

Seems like an easy answer.
Lift the BRZ, add a bike/ski rack, enjoy.

He’s Boned

$15k? Seems like in my area that’s a 89 Pontiac Lemans with transmission problems and a Bill of Sale instead of a Title.

In today’s market $15k should get you the front 3/4 of used Corolla. 

Sure, I didn’t want to see my next birthday anyway.

I’ve long argued these dethroned the Aztek.

I was legit coming here to respond to this suggestion with a vomit gif. It’s uglier than I remember it being.

Bowling Green spares, eh?  That strikes me as unusual, but I guess it’s all how you frame it.

Honda Crosstour:

Miata Is Always The Answer.

How about a van with a fiberglass body sitting on a wood frame?

brokarts?

They used to be cheap. Like six grand for the top tier one. Then Polaris realized they could make a shitton of money off of insecure people who wanted to play redneck and actual rednecks who had gotten too old and frail to ride ATVs anymore. Yamaha kicked in with theirs, and then that started a war about horsepower,…

Out here in the desert at the CO/UT border where i live ppl buy Rubicons and then tow their SxSs to the trails w/their 60k Jeep or Raptor or ZR2 or TRX. Never stops cracking me up.

So you’re taking a fuel economy hit for only a 12% power increase, a good portion of which will be used to carry the extra weight of the hybrid system, which will also make the vehicle dynamically worse.

“The 2023 Genesis G90 is a the kind of luxury car that actually looks and feels like something that luxury cars don’t, which is desirable.”