Admittedly, I skimmed through the article pretty quickly in order to avoid being bored to death by Mazda, but why exactly are they releasing a 2019 Model in 2020?

That’s what $44K worth of ho-hum looks like. 

Just wait until they lift it and reintroduce it as the Bronco.

The trope of, ‘do something you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life’, is wholly untrue. Once you make something your job/career, almost no matter what it is, it becomes something different. The luster is lost. You ruin it. 

That’s the Starcraft ground effects treatment. It’s mostly seen on conversion vans. Looks doofy on that truck.

I feel like the XJ will be on a hiatus, rather than totally dead.

I wasn’t even referring to the hokey HD crapola. I mean the whole vehicle shape. You’re spot on with the sculpture analogy though.

GM is actively trying to be hideous and doing so quite successfully.

I get up at 4:30 AM every morning. I’m in bed at 9:30 PM every night, so it isn’t difficult at all. I usually wake up before my alarm.

The AC 428 looks so much better as a convertible that it’s amazing. The coupe is hideous in profile.

I think he is the guy I saw compressing front springs with some janky-ass spring compressors that were the wrong style of compressor for the job. He was doing them on the vehicle and couldn’t get them positioned properly. He also did not have a safety chain in place. It was like watching someone on a safari reaching…

You hit the nail on the head with “project”. At under $2K you aren’t even really buying a vehicle. You’re buying a project.

I worked in dealerships from the 80's through the 2000's. I could tell stories people simply would not believe.

You know words. You have the best words.

Some people hoard old newspapers and pizza boxes. Some people hoard broken down rust buckets.

“We won’t be buying stuff that needs a ton of work. If you’ve never written before, anywhere, you should probably start smaller.”

The Shelby Short Walk.

I didn’t read the linked articles. I didn’t realize how locked down they were. Yeah - John Deere can go fuck themselves with that shit.

“The newer machines, any time something breaks, you’ve got to have a computer to fix it”

But at least it was a an easily digestible 37 hours long.