I rented one of these once, about ten years ago. I sometimes rent cars to check out cars I might want to buy someday. If that’s what motivated me then, I was cured of that urge rapidly. This thing was dog slow, but it’s handling was also sloppy. The best word for the Dodge Journey is “meh.” 

Looks like a great potential collab between McMansion Hell and Garden and Gun.

tl;dr: “They were just following orders.” Or, if you prefer, “Befehl ist Befehl.” Dangerously close to Godwin’s Law here, but, hey, if you’re going to invoke the Nuremberg Defense, you own it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_orders

Don’t need to know much about maintenance here. This thing is as stiff as a light breeze. The build quality is “approximate.”

How many of those at Hagerty are sawn in half and given a bro-tastic extension? Bidding starts at “none of them.”

Not too far ahead.  You’d be in around nine grand for a five grand (on a good day) car. I voted NP because I like the cartoon looks of this thing, and it would be fun. But I didn’t know that this thing treats its transmission as a consumable. Leaning CP now. 

I don’t agree, but this still made me laugh, so you earned a star. 

Too many broken little things for that money. Three grand would be a great price for someone who’d spend some money to fix the speedo and all the other things. And maybe to remove those hideous decals. 

We call that an “on-board navigation system.”

I have nothing witty, so here’s a dumb joke: Q: What kind of car goes sixty in reverse? A: A rental car.

I am experiencing hard core nostalgia on seeing that ‘78 Subaru wagon. The first manual transmission car I could drive reasonably competently was the ‘77 model of that wagon, a little gray econobox. My dad was (not very patiently) trying to teach me to drive stick for months. I always screwed up, both because he was…

This is the right take. Somebody is going to pay that much for this thing. Even it that’s a CP.

Exactly. The lack of interior shots is a total dealbreaker. 

For what it’s worth, the typical retiree draws more from social security than he or she pays in.

I didn’t get my first passport and go to Europe for the first time until I was in my 30s. But I’ve been a lot since then. Sigh. I dream of going to Europe again. Someday. 

I agree. I figured it would be around 33%

About 42% of us do, as of 2018. A record!https://blogs.voanews.com/all-about-america/2018/01/18/record-number-of-americans-hold-passports/

And a passport would get you on a plane or a federal building. Not that I am in any hurry to do either right now. 

Good. We need more people to pay social security taxes. 

In North Carolina, I had to make an appointment to get this done...eight months in advance. Sure, the transaction took very little time, but the wait was plenty long.