Yep. I’ve owned two at the same time and still have one I daily. My favorite interior out of any car I’ve owned too.

Blind spot front and center. The intake is like two feet above the roof line almost needs a lumber rack up top for another set of motor mounts.

I wish. Almost bought one the first year of eBay in dark green with a beautiful manual. Huge mistake on my part as it went for 18k and was show ready. My dark green history is 3 4Runners and 2 Del Sols.

He opens the exhaust at around 9:12

White cars with blue interiors make me gag. These would look so much better in black.

Black and brown are good choices for interiors! Especially if you want to paint your car your favorite color! I do not missed all those horrible white cars with bright blue interiors...ugh. Red can work if you do it right and you already have a color that compliments it.

Bentley for sure and maybe Rolls Royce?

Weird I’ve only ever wanted my cars to be green. It’s the closest color to black at night yet in the sunlight has that something extra.

Dang free course and free gear! You need to put the word out that while motorcycles are appealing in their freedom they probably are for you+if only there was something more lightweight, less intimidating and you didn’t necessarily have to use on public roads. Then see if the e-bike people will hook you up!

Yeah that’s much better comparison. I have seen any on the road here so it wasn’t in my mental inventory.

To me they hit that same sort of mildly boring but not offensive note. It’s like when non-car people describe a car...I’m sort of “do not car enough about this segment to spend the energy really differentiating the subtle differences” and my eyes glaze over.

was just about to write that!

Focused? That doesn’t really seem to be a trait of his.

I’m just guessing here, but :

Or a sawzall, a welder and a zero f%#ks given attitude!

Most people could drive a FWD CUV or Wagon for over a decade and if you slapped an AWD badge on the back they would never even know.

Damn roll down rear window should be considered essential. Seems like such a missed opportunity!

I actually enjoy the two minute ritual of strapping my kayak to the roof, admittedly I don’t have a van. If I take it out surfing tho’ the salt water runnoff makes me cringe just having it up there. That’s when having that plastic Ridgeline bed would be so nice! Although it’s a bit short for most of my kayaks.

As a kayaker I’ve no problem using the roof rack and have warmed to the idea of a minivan now that you can get a Sienna with AWD. I just wish it came with a 2 inch lift, pop top and factory manual 6 spd as options.

How many times have you had to change the spare on a fully loaded truck? Is the factory jack even rated for it? You could always pull the spare out prior to loading and just throw it on top or you could just have an aftermarket spare tire carrier made up.