With a $60k budget, I don’t see his motivation for wanting an EV as financial. Fixing what you have is almost always the cheaper option, but there are less quantitative costs of vehicle ownership to consider. Dependability has value beyond dollars and cents.

I semi-unintentionally stumbled into owning a small fleet of black badgineered vehicles from defunct GM brands, so this would fit... but the Saab space is filled.

That is a beautiful snake.

So this guy could get out and shoot people instead of just hitting their cars with a pipe?

Where were you looking? I just checked FB Marketplace, and there are dozens of Journeys with similar miles for under $5k. There are several that are listed for more than this, as well, but if you want or are willing to settle for a Dodge Journey, you have a lot of options, and I don’t think you’ll wind up with this…

The concept car that permeated my childhood dreams was the Dodge M4S (although Sherilyn Fenn’s breasts might have made a cameo).

I understand why they made it look like a giant iPhone. I just wish they hadn’t.

Fresh in my mind, since Tuesday is trash day here. My bin was about where I put it near the street, but it was turned 90 degrees from its original position.

I remember when a zero to 60 mph time of around 2.5 seconds seemed as quick as humanly possible. But then electric vehicles with their instant torque came along and began showing off their blisteringly quick acceleration.

We need to establish a clear line between features and services. Subscriptions for features? Absolutely not. Subscriptions for services? Okay.

...as many as one million animals are killed in strikes with cars across America every year.

My mental image of cool reeks of “peaked in high school in 1987". I don’t care. Here I Go Again by Whitesnake.

Officer too Friendly

I didn’t hit your car, but if I did, I didn’t cause any damage, but if I did, it wasn’t that bad.

Oddly countering normal wear and tear patterns, it’s the passenger seat that shows the most degradation.

Counterpoint: The maintenance required to get an Alfa to the moon means that pretty much any wear item has been replaced at least once. Someone kept this running.  An ‘87 Alfa with 230k miles is no more likely to be a ticking time bomb of deferred maintenance than one with half as many miles.

I went back to the ad, and it’s marked as sold.  Crisis averted.

better power-to-weight ratio than my Spitfire had stock.