You need to get on one!

It’ll be a sad day when BA gets rid of the 747-400 fleet. Seeing them all lined up at Heathrow is an awesome sight. The current plan is for half of their 36 planes to be retired in the next three years with the remainder being phased out by 2024.

40K you say ?

She’s a big beautiful beast, but I think I’m most happy in my Trail Premium 4Runner. A bit smaller and less luxurious, but it has a big dumb reliable V6, no third row, and the rear window rolls down for the dogs to drool out of. It also has way more range because the tank is 23 gallons but it sips less!

The flaw in his argument is that it’s reasonable and well articulated.

$15k buys you a mid/late 90 Land Cruiser with no more than 200k miles. Another $15k will turn that into a nicely tuned off-road capable machine that can do almost all of what the new Land Cruiser can do, minus the electronic off road driving aids. That means you have an expedition rig with cool factor you can play…

Swap those tires for KO2s and you’ll have a much much better time off road. Shameless self plug (yes, I’ve used this before, but dang it’s my favorite):

BRING US THE 76! SHAKES FIST*

How much weight could I subtract from a Land Cruiser if I took off a bunch of breakable things, fidgety cameras, iPad screens, 3rd-row seats, running boards, etc.?

We see these all the time up in Park City Utah!

This is the best large NON luxury branded SUV money can buy. Period. I like the new updated front end and more luxurious interior. I wonder how much better this would be if Toyota gave it the TRD PRO treatment... good god.

Wrangler is far extreme and Grand Cherokee is too soft to compete with the 4runner. If you combined both jeeps you get the 4runner.

I wasn’t sold on the old one, but the new one I am a believer. Bought that when it came out to replace wife’s CR-V. It is literally the truck most truck buyers need... obviously not want...

How about an SUV for people who actually want to go off-road?

It certainly is “truck enough” for what it’s supposed to do (both in terms of what Honda claims it can do, and for how people actually use it). The only thing that got me to buy a Taco instead of a Ridgeline in 2012 was the extra foot of bed length I could get in a Taco (wanted to be able to camp in the bed under a…

I see Honda is trying to pull a Toyota/BMW/Mercedes and try to cram an SUV into every possible market nook and cranny.

Spicy.

Until they stop making the cars enthusists like because they don’t buy new cars.

My takeaway from this is that buying new is a bad idea unless you’re keeping the car for 8 to 10 years. Depreciation is the Jalop’s best friend.

In New England, every Subaru holds its value with a death grip.