I’m enjoying this series immensely. I think the premise mentioned up top doesn’t really serve the rest of the article very well though, it’s kind of an unrealistic revisionist hindsight, IMO.

I can only remember my Montero ‘97 carburetor with high altitude compensation being a total nightmare.

Vacuum lines... Shudder.... 

God, you C8 people just won't give it a rest.

Would I? Not a chance. It’s a nice interior. 

Orange dreamsicle *vape juice*. But otherwise agreed on all points.

The red “Jaguar” sticker in the window did it for me.  I wouldn’t drive a car previously owned by someone with such horrible taste.  The interior probably smells of a combination of orange dreamsicle air freshener and Brut cologne.

Actually, I wouldn’t at all be surprised to see that it has dice.

One look at those stupid wheels and immediate NO DICE! Didn’t read a word about it. Tells me all I need to know about the owner. Way to fuck up a beautiful car, ya dumb ass. Sheesh!

Those stupid fucking wheels tell me everything I need to know about this car, and what they tell me is no dice.

But why male models?

Yeah, it just means that they’re all at varying degrees of the production process, but they are all in development. For sure.

I’ve got a Mk7 on the stock all-seasons in Chicago and we do fine because we have plenty of practice and don’t drive like the stupid fucking buttplug in that truck who thinks he’s just going to bounce off the rev limiter until physics changes it’s mind.

“..That’s why you buy 500 lbs of sand to put in the back in November...”

My 1988 Samurai had manual hubs and you shifted it into 4WD with a lever on the floor. As God intended it

Maybe he meant Canada?

Not to mention most off-road tires are made of harder compounds to deal with rocks and debris. In the winter, you might as well wrap your tires in PVC pipe like a drift scooter. And the big open tread does fuck-all for winter traction. You want aggressive tread blocks, sure, but in the snow you want sipes that hold…

Just a reminder that Berdymukhamedov is a bit out there. Here he is ‘rapping’ and performing with his son, who he is grooming to take over his dictatorship

You’re talking about a place run by a guy that makes Momar Ghadafi look like a perfectly sane and reasonable person. They’re as bad as north korea they just don’t have nuclear ambitions so nobody cares, tourism is an absolute gamble.