@Panhardrod: And I want to see what happens when the front wheel goes over a bump while the wheels are turned.

@Jagvar: Damn, I know I should have bought the green one of these that was at my hometown's GMC dealer.

Bro trucks, of course.

@Vincent van Brogh: Looks like fun. I like the cooler too.

@FoxCMK: Pentastar engine, revised suspension, new interior.

@Crash Bandihoon: Vladimir Putin is my co-, er, driver: Not since the revisions that occurred somewhere in the '02-'04 time range, that Nick's car probably has.

I would not buy a 2-seater pickup. Give it an extended cab option that lets it handle 1 more adult, and I'll think about it. But for me to seriously consider it, it must meet or exceed the abilities and equipment of the current Ford Ranger SuperCab 4x4 in XLT trim.

@KTown: Round up some pre 1980's cars and it could be a Distributored Denial of Surface.

I won't lie, I'm a musclecar guy... my idea of a perfect car isn't too different from the late-model Challenger R/T that lives in my garage.

@spuy767: You may want to reconsider that. Excluding Wranglers, every new Jeep product introduced since 1984 was "uniframe" i.e. unibody. Even the Comanche pickup (it did have rails sticking out the back to bolt the bed onto, but those rails were welded to the cab.)

@geistkoenig: Ford's said that they had a choice: either give the new Mustang one of the best live-axle suspensions in the world, or saddle it with a mediocre IRS for the same price.

@nitroram33 misses Murilee Martin: Used to be on lower level GM A-bodies, if you wanted an automatic your only choice was a 2-speed (either the Powerglide on Chevys, or the Super Turbine 300 on Buick/Olds/Pontiacs.) My dad's '68 Cutlass S convertible has the ST300 and it works fine for any job you'd use a '60's…

@TheMonkeyDidIt: Isn't that what compromise usually means?

@Dravs: Lovely car, and I like the wheels. I daily-hooned a '96 V8 for 12 years and either I'm going to restore that car someday, or find a lower-mile V8 or SC to remember the good old days with.

I claimed that I wanted something smaller than my '96 Thunderbird for its replacement.

@Jeb_Hoge: That's what she said.

@philibuster: Chrysler's C4C numbers were affected by factory shutdowns. The Caliber was one of the best-selling new cars early on, but then dealers ran out of them because Belvidere had been shut down for a couple of months.

@Jeramy Bailey: They're supposed to be bigger, and the gasoline car filler neck is supposed to be small enough to only take a gas pump nozzle. But of course it doesn't take much inattention on the fueling station's part to put the wrong nozzle on a diesel pump.

I'm thankful that, other than 3 months of my life, I've only lived in two states, both of which have populations less than many of the US' larger cities.

I'm not shocked; that's just how cars were. Most of my first 4 years of driving were in a '73 Cougar, and other than my car having front discs it wasn't much different from their '71 test...