The most interesting thing on the sales list is that the Honda CR-V is dangerously close to unseating the Accord as Honda’s top seller.

Seems like a torpedo boat - which they appear to shoot it off of - would be a good application for one. Not so much a sub, though.

You’re right that fluid could be included in general maintenance, though I was originally thinking of better fluid as an improvement, in addition to changing the fluid as part of regular maintenance. I think we’re all on the same page here - maintaining or improving one part of the brakes helps, but not as much as the…

I wish it wasn’t on top of the crew cab only. I’d much rather have an extended cab.

I feel like better (or fresh, if you car is old) fluid would give better resistance to heat soak than improved pads. Note that this assumes you aren’t using crappy Chinese knockoff pads in the first place.

I love this plan except for one small detail - you won’t have to toast them, because they so readily toast themselves.

Looks like this is the end of low belt lines on Subarus. They were the last hold outs. Every other manufacturer went to bunker slits for windows except for Subaru, but I guess they’re tossing them out for more ‘aggressive’ styling and ‘improved safety’.

I don’t know what it is, but I love this. The only way it could get better would be if it had a 510-style nose (which may be what they’re going for - it’s hard to tell exactly from this angle).

Holy crap, did they section 12” out of that thing?

I know you were making a Dale Earnhardt joke, but there’s a joke about torque steer in there too.

You need to do an Oppo post on that. I love the oddball stuff German companies offer as special orders.

...or this is a temporary deployment and it wasn’t worth the trouble to paint a bunch of complex and expensive vehicles white. On the other hand, I bet it was easy to hand out a bunch of white winter equipment to the troops to wear over their standard ACU or Multicam uniforms.

Your absurd and unfounded claim that all around reliability has been the primary reason for maintaining a 60+ year govt buying relationship with Colt is laughable and offensive.

I hoped having the top up would make it look better.

My father owned one of these (a ‘90) for about 7 years when I was in middle school and high school. It was slow (190hp TPI 305 + overdrive happy automatic + 2.73:1 rear axle), rode like a tank, flexed like mad, was poorly assembled, and the ergonomics were awful, but I’ll be damned it wasn’t really cool looking. We…

This year has been hilarious from beginning to end, but I think this was the most entertaining escapade of all.

You’re a jerk because now I have another car to lust over, but this one is fairly close by. Close enough to test drive. And reasonably priced. And clean.

The missing centercaps are really messing with my OCD.

Original Cougars have awesome taillights, but the operation was the cool part. The design, itself, wasn’t anything special for the era. My personal favorite taillights are the red boomerangs on 1960 and some ‘61 Chryslers: