When the car was acquired it wasn’t exactly in the best running condition.

I prefer marry, fuck, then kill, but you can do marry>kill>fuck if that is your thing. I don’t think you’re going to find anybody to marry you after you’ve already killed her and abused the corpse.

You need to have a vehicle in the garage, ready at all times, to make a NYC-Cleveland trip (that’s I-80 the whole way, ~450 miles) on short notice, probably in the middle of the night, as fast as possible. What vehicle do you pick?

Did he then flood the market with the in-class fiat currency to give you all a lesson in inflation? Allow short term asset backed loans secured by your pencil collection, so that you could corner the pencil market and drive up the prices? Or maybe just to lever your eraser buying power ahead of a big exam, when you…

For freedom.

Yeah, it’s cool, but he still shouldn’t have put $4000 down on it.

I think that by now it has become very obvious that you used the wrong example for your story. The guy could have bought two reliable cars for $4,000, but instead he put it down on a Dodge Ram. That’s just a stupid decision by a short-sighted person. The inclusion of that story has now caused the rest of the article…

I think the definitions are different. In a lot of places, if a car makes it 100,000km without any serious problems, it’s reliable. In the US, if a car needs any serious work before 200k miles, it’s questionable.

I don’t believe this shit.

I would hoon the fuck out of this. Where I grew up, we often had “field cars” that we bombed around in empty fields or the strips of grass between them. This looks like the ultimate field car.

The problem with comparing used Tacomas to new ones is that the new ones are garbage and everybody knows it. If I wanted to drop a bunch of cash on a Tacoma, I’d want one that will last me the next 200k+ miles without an issue, not the ones that corporate is desperately trying to patch up the problems enough to get…

Wranglers hold their value! It is amazing what TJs go for considering they stopped making them 11 years ago... And don’t even get me started on LJs,

Do any of us own a non-sporty car that DOESN’T need portal axles? Because I can’t think of any.

Please link to the comment.

This is beautifully written. I don’t even know what you are doing on this site.

David: If he’s looking for something that projects an “adult” image, wouldn’t maybe a WK suit him better? IFS, so not a rock crawler, but it would fit in at the office park and it comes with those sweet electronic diffs for the adventures through badly plowed parking lots. (This ignoring that the best car buying…

Apparently “tchotchke” is the word of the day today.

The pricing, on the other hand, is out of control. I paid $165 for a weekend full of racing at the USGP last year, which included multiple Porsche Supercup, Lamborghini Super Trofeo, and vintage Formula 1 races on top of 3 F1 practice sessions, qualifying, and the race, plus Taylor Swift.

I like this car. I like that Buick still exists.

Are you having a stroke?