I maintain that Boston’s is older, shoestringier, and more jury rigged. Primarily because NYC has the bulk buying power to have their stock fit their system (A and B incompatibilities acknowledged however), While Boston is still hoping someone else builds a trolley that will fit the damn green line

The T is pretty advanced considering it runs* every day on a shoestring budget on rolling stock jury rigged to fit in tunnels over 100 years old with systems not tended to since the carter administration.

*it may not actually run

I thought the same thing but they adjusted my payout for “usable scrap” which on my jeep was essentially the engine and maybe 3 of the wheels.

Its a damn miracle it even made it to the scrap yard!

I spent every dollar they gave me on booze, just as the jeep would have wanted

Have you ever seen the coolant lines on a beater?

I don’t think it was for Ram’s good. Dodge trucks whatever they be called are an institution. Dodge cars on the other hand have been rebranded as often as Mrs Noise changes her hair color. I think they spun them off to protect them, and their cashflow, from the confusion of Chrysler’s love of rebranding itself.

I feel like a leaner brand might work well, maybe drop some brands.

I’m thinking keep Jeep, merge ram with another brand, maybe Dodge? Chrysler can make nice cars and maybe fiat does the everyman cars. Or drop Fiat.

Jeep/Chrysler/Dodge has a nice ring to it.

Car companies are weird things

one hell of a truck right there

the festool would be outlandishly expensive and impeckably overengineered but skimp on materials and cut corners in really bizarre places

so much this

interestingly the gl0bal ranger of that era was a mazda rebadged as a ford

when your radiator is fucked and your 40 miles from the next exit this shit will save the sauce

I had a Honda CR-V that hemmoraged its transmission in small pieces all over the highway at 150,000 miles. My buddy had one two years older that hit almost 300,000 miles with just regular maintenance and a few expected parts swapped from wear.

Some cars are built by magic auto union pixies on a tuesday afternoon just…

4 stroke: nowhere

2 stroke: everywhere

1: everybody changes their turn signals anyway, its like the bumper on an old civic: immenantly replaced by something from ebay.

2. what? huh? and again, always immediately changed. Mine is sideawys on the right side suspension bits. But again, what?

3. great

Retro huskies?

i mean, when you load lumber or pipes or bales of hay you have to laud between the wheel wells

Which is exactly the same usable space as in a stepside, between the wheel wells.

That extra around space is just where empty beer cans and broken rachet straps live

Reminds me of those weirdly wonderful compact commuter cars of the postwar era