Well, you’ve done it now. You’ve graduated to Cranky Old Fart. Don’t worry, you’ll get used to it.

I’m not in the market for a $63,000 toy, but this makes me wish I was. NP for somebody who wants a nice cruiser and stoplight racer.

Counterpoint to that: Dump a Kia’s worth of money into it, and you’ll have something reliable that’s a hell of a lot cooler than a Kia.

One advantage an old car has: By the time it’s 10 years old, all the weak points are known. At 15 years, others have done the heavy lifting and figured out how to fix/upgrade them. By the time it’s hit 30, the fixes may have been done for you.

Specially designed so the French truck drivers can get paid for an extra 2 hours while they charge up for the second half of their day.

Dachsund limousine, and Rottweiler patrol/pursuit car.

Don’t forget the Shi Tzu hot hatch: Overly loud, too small to be useful, generally obnoxious and kinda ugly.

Denny Elegante sounds like a discount-store fashion brand.

No, because I’m not watching a video about the dashboard in a truck that I’m not going to buy.

And the soccer moms will drive in Slippery mode all the time because the color matches their truck.

Somebody doesn’t understand rock crawling. Unless that’s wheelspin.

When you’re right, you’re right. I posted that before I saw they were killing off the Conti.

Buyers: Hurr durr durr, Cadillac is a grandma’s car with a vinyl roof!

Plus, people are drunk enough that buying a Nissan seems like a good idea.

But my lease residual!

Now you can rescue it again!

Gotcha. You can tell I’m not an EE. 

Re: 2nd Gear: I can see a lot of trucks coming with an 8,499 lb payload rating.

Okay, so hub motors:

The real question is why it’s still there. It’s gotta be 40 years or more since anyone needed a part from it. Maybe the yard owner KNOWS WHAT HE’S GOT.