My take from last week stands. This looks like the generic luxury car from the Grand Theft Auto games. Cobbling together styling languages from your major competitors and throwing them at this thing does not an attractive car make.

Isn’t it amazing that all of those elements make for decently attractive cars (not the Acura) on their source vehicles... but when you smash them all together on this thing, it looks this bad?

Front looks like a Volvo S90 hit with an ugly stick and a bit of Acura (grille), rear looks like a ‘93 Towncar. Not attractive.

Still sound like a dying giraffe? BMW can make 6 cylinders sound sexy, why can’t Ford?

That last image you dropped looks like it’s from the Bison (Goodyear duratrac tires, DSSV/multimatic shock in the background, etc).

How to get over your fear? Find an empty parking lot covered in snow and (hopefully) minimal obstructions, and just drive around. Drive slow. Drive fast. Slam on your brakes in a straight line. Slam on your brakes while turning. Accelerate while turning... etc etc. Get used to what your car feels like before it’s…

This has been floating around the internets for a few weeks now. Street view 18158 SW 177th Ave, Miami, FL, face south. This is where the video starts. There’s a dirt road that parallels the paved surface. 

I shall make it my new goal in life to integrate “Montdakota” into my vocabulary.

Hmm, I didn’t see “completely lose your mind and start screaming profanities at the baggage personnel and making a scene” anywhere on this list.

Oh man are these things durable. Solid rear axle (in the 4x4s), Extra-low gear (4x4 manual trans) and selectable FWD/AWD, all of 80-something horsepower... really nimble and versatile. A friend of mine had one of these in high school.

I went a few years replacing onesies & twosies and it seems that made the light go away before the newly-restored vacuum (or pressure) in the system made another degraded hose get close to failing. So one weekend I just bit the bullet and replaced every one I could find (except for, it would turn out, the rollover…

Could be different between different manufacturers. I can only speak for the two I’ve worked with. In my Volvo and other cars (Toyotas), it’s based more on drive cycles and types of driving vs. outside air temp.

We’ve all been there. Source: after pulling the fuel tank and driver’s front fender & replacing what felt like miles of evap hoses in my Volvo, I finally broke down & replaced the charcoal canister too... but the code came back (the very next day). After all was said & done, the actual fault was a $3.20 hose that went…

Yes, I too am eagerly awaiting the update in 2 weeks when the EVAP system runs completely through it’s test cycle and throws the code again.

This, exactly. 

I know. It was my parent’s car. Once I started chauffeuring my brother & sister to school, my parent’s let (read: forced) me use it while they drove my beater Toyota pickup around.

Brand new vehicles come from the factory rust. Check these out.

In a similar boat. 
Car in high school: 1998 Volvo S70
Car 20 years later: the same 1998 Volvo S70

O/T to the bed thing: Mud Terrains? Really? That seems a bit... ambitious.

This is where the smart money is. They’re wonderful cars to be in, save for the door chime and turn signal cacophony.