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ryguynoreally

But were there butts in every seat and luggage in the trunk? I generally don’t road trip alone and with no cargo.

Is this easy form of illicit entry going to become the next “Kia boys”?

Hell, I’ve thrown 2000lb of cement bags into a Honda Odyssey. I took out the middle seats (~60lb each) so I could put the load in the center of the vehicle to distribute the weight. Handled the trip home without issue -- didn’t even feel like it hit the bump stops going over a speed bump.

Ram is struggling for relevance. They are shiny and feature-filled, but they haven’t figured out how to outrun their questionable quality and hideous resale.

Especially when, by and large, it isn’t the woke urbanites buying cowboy Cadillacs — it’s the cowboys (or cowboy cosplayers) themselves.

When I walk through the oak- and elm-lined neighborhood near mine where the median home price is approaching $1mil, I don’t see $60k brodozers on 22" or larger chrome wheels being

- 2WD Jeep DJ-5 with the 4cyl and 2spd powerglide

Evil -- let them fall in love with the doritomotor only to have their world collapse along with the apex seals or whatever it is that plagues any rotary that isn’t allowed to burn oil like a 2-stroke.

Make sure it’s a manual because it’ll be impossible to drive smoothly with his legs all cramped up. This is one time manual would be worse.

Fantastic dirt road bomber, though.

Not with that attitude. It’s RWD -- just wait for winter and enjoy all the walking-speed oversteer you can handle!

Counterpoint -- a car that you can drive at 10/10 almost all the time and only break the speed limit on neighborhood streets.

Dear Councilpeople in every town ever considering adding/upgrading infrastructure to be more bike-friendly:

Diesel, or turbodiesel?

Subies with turbos are too finicky for the use case, I think. Anything with the 2.5NA gets around fine, even at altitude. Bigger issue, though, is that the CVT is unreliable and manuals are hard to find except on the WRX.

Rust isn’t an issue in Colorado — winter road salt treatment is non-corrosive.

“Mine is 1 of 3 made on a Thursday with Baboon Ass Red with the optional Bass Boat metallic flake the mismatched peanut butter leather and charcoal vinyl interior (with the seat ventilation attached to the non-perforated vinyl 3rd row bench seat), the XM radio stuck on channel 40 — Liquid Metal, and Michelin Pilot

Excuse me while I go to Vegas, lose 90% of my savings, then use the final 10% to sue the casinos.

I’ll take the later XRS models with the 2.4L. Revs are fun, but I’ll take more torque any day.

Not a hemi, but a motorhome needs the torque that only displacement or a turbo can bring, gas or diesel.

The Marauder would have been fine with the automatic if Ford had used the supercharged 4.6L as seen in the 2003-2004 Mustang Cobra.