First off, this is an awesome solution to this problem: quick, easy, pragmatic, amusing ,and perfect for Texas - how does this not just make you smile? While I generally love the commenters here, there is an increasing softness/appallability (yes, I just made that word up) factor here. The PC factor and desire to be…

I know this was mostly a rhetorical observation but I’m guessing that those awnings are more for the sun than anything else. For wet-weather racing, raincoats and ponchos are order of the day. Anyone who brings a goddamn umbrella though is gonna get it fed to them.

<calls entire country stupid while using poor/lazy grammar and questionably cohesive sentences>

The infrastructure in Europe is also vastly different to that in NA. Our roads here are just wider to start with. We don’t have many small roads in downtowns. The average SUV can still drive around downtown NY, Chicago, etc.

We’re backwards because nobody wants to drive a Lada and live in a hovel?

My house is too big, I only need a few square meters to physically survive afterall.

I read that in clarkson’s voice

The 4.0 in my cherokee will probably outlast the car as well. Only problem is that it’s currently outlasting every every other component attached to it.

I had a 1987 325e (though the ‘e’ was missing) that looked exactly like this one. Great car and you’re right, power isn’t everything. I never knew what I was missing in the engine until my brother bought a 1989 325i cabrio.

Add to that the 4.0L inline six that Chrysler was using in the Jeeps. I had one in a 1998 Cherokee with a 5 speed manual backing it up. Drive that thing nice and easy, at moderate speeds, and it would return amazing gas mileage. Gobs of torque wile loafing along at around 1600 RPM. My Brother is still driving it…

I’m really glad the NSX appears to have turned out quite well

It’s the Bronco from an alternate timeline OJ, where he was cast as the Terminator as originally planned. He eventually came to this timeline, but the verdict is out if he’s the bad OJ or the formerly bad OJ who is now good and is trying to stop the new bad OJ

I don’t want kids. I want a car that’s reliable and fun. Those exist, and they’re not Kia Spectras.

totally agree but 3FE > 2F sadly.