So is someone buying that Jeep from the junkyard for parts or to repair? The whole intro to this article is confusing. Talking about new car deliveries and then watching a junkyard video needs a very clear segue.

Ha! Kind of the perfect case study on who actually takes the advice of Consumer Reports.

Totally agree, except for those vehicles you know were reverted into base models by stripping out niceties. Sometimes the automakers will go the extra mile to give you less, just so they can charge you more to get what was already designed into the car in the first place.

Are you saying cruise control only comes with the fancier wheel, or it's just on the stalk? Crazy that VW would sell a car without cruise control in 2014.

Yeah, but you lose out on the cost savings in the used market. Sure, a base model might have a marginal difference in asking price to a mid-level trim, but at that point you're probably better off buying the non-base model. This is all in terms of value, of course.

I noticed that when casually browsing Tacomas, or really any hardy Japanese vehicle. Seems like those are the perfect candidate for someone looking to drive something for a couple of years and sell it without losing a penny.

Agreed, until you go to sell the fucking thing.

OK, sure, but what about ROI? You can turn $1.75 mil in coke into $???; how much can you make on the Ferrari?

Better or worse than the Equus's terribly integrated grille camera?

I get your point, but I actually like these. It's such a departure from the decades of fixed-size lamps or traditionally shaped lamps (usually shared among models), I can't really know the designers for wanting to exploit it.

Agreed. Somehow gaudier, uglier, blingy-er, and more insulting to the eyes than an Escalade

The 3-speed (with overdrive) manual has one of the narrowest gates I'd ever seen. It just looks like a linear slot. And when I drove this transmission when it was in Tom's old Rambler, I had lots of trouble. But it's been rebuilt since then, and now the shifts are happily mechanical and precise. It chunks into gear,…

If they had, this probably would have been a story about engine bay squirrels violently attacking an innocent motorist as he yanked out the weeds.

Cool fersure, but I wish projects like these would move past the front end. Sure, he threw some rims on there, but he could have integrated the Jag look a bit more.

Lol, Abarf.

Hm. I guess that's pretty much what I thought, I just can't imagine pulling it off without killing everyone involved. Sounds like lots of unintentional horn-honking.

How in the hell do you have full-on p -in-v sex while driving? I just don't get it.

Um... Buddy...

I don;t get your reference, but I was serious. I'd rather tell people I drive a "n/a Yamaha V8 RWD Toyota" than a "Sport coupe by Lexus, an M5 fighter, ya know"

The amount of work Toyota puts into calculating all those extraneous cutouts and various geometric shapes in the bumpers, etc, is ridiculous. They may look wildly different, but you can tell that these designers and those who work on new Lexuses are part of the same company.