haven’t gotten to look inside one, but seen a couple out and about; what you mention about “something the Ranger used to do” is exactly the vibe i got; it’s a modern version of what the ranger was, and, factoring in the bigger cab, it seems pretty close in size to my single cab Ranger-clone.

the same way a San Francisco Mayor can blab key evidence in a serial killer case and still have a long career in CA politics? Party affiliation.

i sincerely hope we have better nav options in the early 20,000's, not that any of us will be alive to see them.

that was a big part of it, yeah. when i was in the market, neither of the ford dealers (nor most of the other dealers around) would even give me the time of day, and internet shopping wasn’t nearly what it is now (early 2000's).

interesting...i haven’t seen any of those on rangers over here (west coast).  have seen factory mustang wheels, though.

on a side note, pretty sure those wheels are from the mazda twin. also, the chip key that they drilled a hole in when the end broke off, rather than replacing it, is a nice touch

i know you aren’t.  there’s a moto cop in socal somewhere (riverside, maybe) that posts helmet cam footage.  saw one where he was splitting lanes in rush hour gridlock, lights and all, on the way to an accident, and had a van try to squeeze/block him, and about shit themselves when he hit the siren.

hertz screwed me in enough little ways that i don’t rent from them anymore (last straw was waiting an hour and a half past the appointment for them to get a car ready, and being late for work as a result, only to find the car so low the fuel light was on). it’s slightly cheaper and slightly less convenient to do…

That house makes the car look like a better buy, actually...

what if Miata still IS the answer?

fine, i’ll keep my coleslaw with raisins to myself.

agreed, and i kind of class the track they were trying to build under “it was already there”, since the air force base didn’t close all that long before they were trying to build the track..maybe 10 years at most. and even as it hasn’t been an active base, it’s an air museum, so they still have air traffic on the site.

They were also trying to build a track about an hour away...road course, drag strip, and dirt course, on the location of a former air force base...the residents kept it tied up in lawsuits and redoing environmental reports over noise and traffic and whatever else they could come up with till it sunk.

Yeah, it’s heading exactly that path with Sacramento raceway...was waaay south in the sticks, but the town grew south.

that, or have it torpedoed because one of the neighbors doesn’t want more car noise, and ties it up in lawsuits until it sinks.

*insert comment about the jeep wave*

i was going to say...kind of like the old ‘turning brakes’ on sandrails.

brought home a 32" tube tv in my beetle once. had the box strapped on the roof rack on the way home. dining room table and chairs also moved in the beetle one move, table on the roof rack, chairs in back. i also have a picture somewhere of my little pickup absolutely crammed with stuff, and then stuff piled on stuff…

have road tripped a beetle, can confirm.