Tom, you wrote about the perfect car earlier this month (and I snagged one myself). The Chevrolet SS. With the rebate, it checks all the boxes.

I just want a new 4Runner without a PowerWheels interior.

did you read the...anything?

Best friend was a Jaguar/range Rover dealer tech from the mid 90s to just last year. He retired on the overtime unfucking these perfectly awful pieces of shit. What amazes me is that Lucas survived into the late 90s. This is an outfit that did nothing right. Nothing

I will never understand the appeal of these things. They are super expensive (for what they are), they are uncomfortable, they ride like shit, they get bad gas mileage.

Anymore I think I’d rather have a 4Runner to live with daily unless I needed to tow often. No difference in payload, more stock ground clearance, better range...

Too damn late. My kids have grown up while waiting for one so I don’t need a van anymore. I’m going back to the 2 seat convertible where I belong and VW can suck it for not bring it sooner when I might have needed it.

Deserve? Did he kill some one?

My only real problem with this is - The Everest exists. If you want to bring the Everest to the US, bring us the Everest. Calling it a Bronco will piss off way more people than it will attract. There is no value in the Bronco name if it’s not going to be reminiscent of past Broncos. Anyone willing to buy an…

Agreed.

Counter Point: Please mount a spare tire on the back.

I have PTSD from the cowl shake in this car.

Um, no, eight foot lumber is eight feet long. And I’ve carried tons of it in my six foot bed, I use strap to keep it in the truck. I’m weird, I like regular cab trucks with six foot beds, fits my driveway.

The problem with the “smaller” truck is that it costs exactly the same to build as the bigger truck. It’s just smaller and has less working capacity. That’s why the small truck market died. The prices of the smaller trucks got to be exactly the same as the bigger versions and folks finally wised up and stopped buying…

My mind is boggled at the comments I’m reading down here. Everything from “he’s an asshole,” to “he doesn’t care about his kids safety.”

What. The. Fuck. Are you people serious?!

1. The kids seem to be having fun. Hell, I’d love to try this challenge. I dunno any kid that wouldn’t find this amusing.

2. The dad seems to…

When $68k can get you this with some change left, you are hitting the pipe way too hard. Trim it back down to twice a day, not 15.

And now, for something completely different:

Fucking a right! That giant cockstain right there should be #1.

This was the best of all worlds: 1) Most reliable car of the late 80s, early 90s (you can find several examples north of 0.5 million miles), 2) Fun to drive (you can find several examples north of 0.5 million miles), 3) Great to look at every morning with the lowest production hood of its day and since...