After all these years I honestly can’t recall if it was her or if it was me, but a girlfriend and I were on a spring break road trip from Pennsylvania to Florida and we broke up around Fort Myers on the way home. Man, that was a long, quiet and uncomfortable 1000 mile drive home...

The TRD Pro’s starting price of $72,130... With very few options (just $295 worth) my tester rang in at $74,295.

But you get a potentially explodey engine tossed in for free!

Thing*

Over-engineering used to be a good think for Toyota back in the day.

Don’t buy these deathtraps under any circumstances. They’re unstable, dangerous, and buying one simply funds a fascist oligarch.

I too was dissappointed by that redline spec. This looks like a great little car but more of a slight step up from the “sport” trim than a full-on si. I guess they don’t want to encroach on the type R, but at these days you can’t even point at the Toyoburu twins as an excuse for only 200hp.

There is a special place in hell for websites that let you hover over one thing, then jump around so you end up clicking on another...

The point about people who need a truck to do truck things not buying Tesla’s is spot on.

The literal one time in history that a Ram driver did anything good for anyone else on the roads.

Comb the desert, you say?

1st generation Saab 9-5 Aero.

Volvo S60R, because my dad had one. Wonderful daily, but would really move when you step on it.

Pontiac G8 GXP. A 4.5 second 0-60 in grandpa’s old luxo-barge.

1st Gen Ford Taurus SHO. You’ll have to try to get pulled over...

Obviously biased, but I’ll nominate the 2005-2009 Subaru Legacy GT. WRX powertrain in a better chassis with an interior that was actually pretty nice, and of course Subaru’s awesome symmetrical AWD. Mine was a 2005, and I was one with that car like it was an extension of my mind and body, in a way I’ve never been with…

Anything from Saab. The Viggens were obviously the most hard core, but really all of them felt far sportier than anything people in America were used to driving. A friend had a 9-5 turbo which was pretty dang awesome.

The E39 is the obvious answer so I’ll go with something a bit newer but also German- the 2008 Audi RS4 sedan. 420hp at 7800 rpm from an NA 4.2L V8 mated to a 6 speed manual trans. 8 piston Lambo brakes in the front. As long as you have money for the absurd maintenance its great.

Recency bias and all that, but damn if this 6MT V8 supercharged V8 is not one of the best sedans of all time.

Obvious answer is E39 M5 or E55 AMG.