Yup, everything about this says “deferred maintenance” to me. Run, don’t walk, in the other direction.

Oh yeah, after the 1st gen Prius we went to the 2nd gen and never looked back. 48-51 actual MPG between fill ups, quiet(er), quick(er), and fixed the transaxle/stator issue that killed our first one.

I think what you’re looking for is probably a Crosstrek. You can find a decent one around $15k and it will suit your requirements just fine. I can’t speak to their reliability, but it seems to check the boxes for you.

It wasn’t “enough” of anything. Enough power, enough space, enough efficiency, enough comfort or enough from a dynamic (handling/braking) perspective when compared to its non-hybrid competition at the time.

I love me some Toyotas but the 1st gen Prius was garbage.

I was a day 2 or 3 reservation for the Lightning. My Ford dealer told me that there was no ADM but if I wanted to get in front of the fleet customers and “other Ford Preferred customers” (who had priority) I could pay $15k. Otherwise, I wait until 2023... when I’m sure some other shenanigans will take place, and I’ll…

Any number of times when my friend’s 1987 Toyota Tercel 4wd wagon went places no wagon had any business going.

I’m going through this with my in-laws. They’re in a 2012 Grand Cherokee Laredo 4x4 which is circling the drain at 125k miles. They maintained it meticulously but between recalls, head rebuilds, more steering racks than I can count, a “mystery noise” nobody can figure out that sounds like a broken frame (I know…

Sounds a lot like what lefthandutes.com does?

Any Mazda EV.

Maybe it was in the pool?

I once drove an M90 equipped Volvo 700 series overseas. That was very satisfying. M46, M47, M56 were all duds from the “precision” perspective.

All I care about is the fact she didn’t round out (cut) the rear wheel arches like so many of the idiots in my neck of the woods do.

Tossup between my current S550 Mustang GT and any 1998 or newer FWD Volvo.

My S550 (2020) Mustang GT occupies a very similar length/width footprint as a 5th gen 4Runner (Mustang is 2" shorter, 0.4" narrower).

In the article. Under the entry for Dodge Caliber it says “They killed the PT Cruiser for nothing.”

Counterpoint: The PT Cruiser needed, and deserved, to die. They just replaced it w/something so bad, arguably worse in every measurable category, that people actually looked back on the PT Cruiser with fondness when presented w/the alternative.

ID.4. Test drove these about a year ago. It was well built compared to the Teslas and Mach-E but that is where it ended. I couldn’t get past the controls/interface and the awful touchscreen response and having to go multiple menus deep in a laggy / buggy interface, just to get to a basic HVAC or car control function.

I’ve seen more Lamborghini Miuras in my life than I have Saab 9-4x... in that, I’ve actually seen multiple different Miuras but only ever seen one 9-4x.

They’re all good hot hatches, Bront.