And? My point stands — I wish there was an affordable one that people with student loans and exorbitant rent/mortgages could buy without sweating the loan. Once upon a time, Jeeps weren’t luxury vehicles but affordable utility devices and I’d like one of those de-contented ones (no AC, power windows, carpets, etc.).

This is a properly informative and educational comment. Kudos, yo. 

One word: Ointment.

Branding consultant here: You forgot the weed but otherwise nailed it.

All true, perhaps, but flying in that hump to Tokyo a few times was *awesome* (I didn’t pay for those tickets, thankfully). Admittedly, some of that was being “above” the unwashed masses but it was awfully cool being around so few people while being treated like a baller!

Leaded gas was gone before I ever drove. But yes, $9k was a pittance even then (1990). You could be a stoner waiting tables in a shitty restaurant and still buy a new Wrangler. Not anymore.

Glass is better for drinking that beer, no matter the poor chemistry lesson on oxygen — That only matters with age. Unless it’s old beer that’s been shipped all over, oxygenation doesn’t affect flavor (as someone with four breweries in walking distance, I’m lucky to not bother with distribution-heavy beers).

Are YOU not familiar with inflation? Or reading?! One more time: A little less than $9k was nothing back then too — Around $18k now.

It’d be great if one version or another was actually affordable, as the Jeep Wrangler of decades past used to be.

Which is why some will opt for a less “off-roady” version that is a little more daily-usable but is still pretty good on the handful of trails one might take it.

Only if you’re drinking mead to wash down your salted mutton and pottage.

If cans tasted better, we’d be drinking out of aluminum mugs.

Nah, Tracy is just accepting the first of his 12 Step journey:

My “handling them” typically means running for my life as one chases me and the other ushers her goslings away, so I’ll have to take your word for it. ;)

Awesome — I will, THANKS!

Can you imagine how much more revenue they’d lose if they assisted a black man? Defending himself from white knuckle-draggers? Whew.

Okay, the one with the neck beard is one of them, right?

Beautifully put. I’m LOLing hard over here...

And POW, just like that, the commenter’s name made perfect sense.

You monster. Apart from the homemade naan because that little recipe taught me how to make tortillas, which was life-altering good. ;)