A little disappointing that they didn’t give you any open track time, but that’s not your fault. Thanks for a great video!

You know I was actually planning to do exactly that, minus the light bars and plus a 1.5” lift. It actually works quite well as a camper already since our futon mattress lays flat in the back. All of our friends have done the sprinter conversion thing and it’s kind of fun rolling up in a baby blue sienna.

I see your point, but even then he didn’t do a thorough job because he didn’t tell us if the truck raised his low T levels and effectively intimidate other drivers.

I’ve got a 4 y/o and a 2 y/o. Here is our family stable. Each of them has 4 seats and works as a kind of “dad car.”

David, I assume you get paid to write these reviews, correct? You were given a truck to review and permission to offroad it, and all you did was take it to a wedding? I’m glad you had a good time and all but I would much rather read about how the 4x4 system worked than get a play-by-play of your weekend and see the…

He’s British, which is why it he sounds “disappointed but polite.” Jeremy Clarkson aside, the Brits tend to be more restrained and fair than our journos. That doesn’t mean he doesn’t like it though.

3 things:

I’d rather see a 944 revival... preferably priced below the boxster.

Shouldn’t our president’s tweets be legally reviewed also?

BMW 3 series are to the Ring what Miatas and S2Ks are to your track day. When I visited last summer I started counting, and BMWs made up almost half the traffic.

I feel your pain Jason. I was balding before I even hit 30. I experimented a bit but there was no way to maintain both my dignity and some hair on top of my head. Luckily that coincided roughly with Breaking Bad and suddenly white guys with shaved heads were culturally acceptable. So that’s the route I chose... Still…

Yeah, but on the other hand they were probably going pretty fast to lose control and end up in the trees like that.

Yeah, especially for city-dwellers the practicality beats the Civic any day. The hatch space is just so versatile. And then there’s the fact that it weighs just 2500 lbs.

I would say the biggest question is:

I had the HVAC go out also on my 09. On a road trip to Mexico in June. We had to turn back.

My friend had one of these when we were growing up. We nicknamed it the brontosaurus because it had such a small face and such a big forehead.

Will there be a Mazdaspeed version?

My family stable includes

I’ve fallen out of love with BMWs lately because they have gotten so aestetically and dynamically boring. I really like this new design language though. Seems like they simplified things by taking it down to just a few simple creases. Let’s hope the dynamics improve too!

I love that Christian brought back the turbo air reservioir idea. This sounds like it is the same as the “boost bumper” cheat that the Focus used in WRC. The only difference is that this tank is refilled by electric compressor.