Are you calling my Wrangler JKU fat? It’s easy to have light Jeeps when they’ve spent their lives in Michigan and their frames are swiss cheese.  

It’s more the system of elected judges and DAs in the USA than the world. Other places have perfectly sane systems with adults in charge whose job it is to do the right thing and not have to worry about re-election. In many countries being a judge is a job you choose in law school. You don’t have to work your way up…

I envision an Afghanistani refugee family showing up in Waco and it slowly dawning on them that they’re still surrounded by the Taliban just without beards.

My 1998 Ranger was the fastest pickup I ever owned. Drove it all over Alaska and the territory formerly known as “The Yukon” (now just Yukon). Even without studded tires you could drop it in low 4x4 and inch your way down steep ice-covered roads littered with F-150s and Silverados in the ditches. 

I just ran an Autotrader search. There are a dozen or more well under $30K. Saw one for $26K with 20K miles. Many in the 45K mileage range going for around $25K. Seems like they didn’t get driven much (old people?). What’s odd is that there wasn’t a single 2016 model for sale anywhere. They only made a few thousand in…

A low mileage Breaking Bad-correct tan Aztec showed up on my local CL a few years ago for dirt cheap. No rust. I almost bought it to flip to some BB obsessed fan, free pizza included with box.

I know someone who has lived in Alaska since the 70s and won a lottery spot to drive the road this year. He’s never won before and now... well he’s probably going to die before they fix it. 

Also of note regarding Kettering is that he was known as Charles “Boss” Kettering and founded Delco. Kettering was also put in charge of cancer research at his co-namesake Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Hospital, always in the top three of cancer hospitals in the USA to this day.

Was expecting some dog fighting scenario thing. But no... just straight up starved his own dogs*. All that left turning must have damaged his brain (CTE- chronic turning encephalopathy).

Snorkels are very popular in Australia and not without reason. There’s dust here too. But this was a mall crawler. 

I saw a parked bright red Wrangler the other night that had its 4 doors off (no tube doors or netting), was fitted with a snorkel and a winch bumper with a big hoop and no winch. Stock size wheels, no lift and red neoprene seat covers (in the desert of Antivaxxistan where it has rained once since the beginning of June)…

NPS uses Rubicons among others. https://gsaauctions.gov/gsaauctions/aucitsrh/?sl=71QSCI21609024

Plus the risers keep you from getting “pinstripes” on your vehicle. God forbid your overlander would show signs of actual use as intended. 

I’m sure every one of them takes their Wrangler and immediately trades it for a Rover when I don’t wave. The latest Wrangler idiocy is people leaving rubber ducks on other peoples’ Wranglers. In parking lots of course. 

Peugeot. Nary a mention. Owned by Stellantis and soon returning to the USA in 2021. Oh wait... that’s not happening. Won a world rally championship as recently as 2002. They’ve been killing it at the Dakar for years until last year. How hard would it have been to bring that rally tech to a SUV for Americans? They made…

My mom had a life-long lead foot starting with the first full auto transmission Buick in the 50s. I went back to Cape Cod to help her buy a car when she divorced my father. She was 86 at the time. Her reasoning for the divorce was that after 60 years she realized “it wasn’t going to work out.” She bought a Toyota…

That is a direct quote of what I said one night to a high school friend in Monument Beach when we realized the packie was about to close. He complied with said U-eey right into a tree. We got about a mile before the radiator ran out of fluid and we frantically shoveled beer cans out of the Jeep into a field before the…

My thoughts exactly. Started to click NP then saw MA location. Cape Cod is even worse it’s like year ‘round salt not just winter especially if you live near the ocean which I’m guessing Mr. retired physician probably has in abundance in his front yard.

Late 80s early 90s Ford Ranger gets me out of Washington’s onerous registration fees. Batteries go in the bed of the pickup where you build another pickup bed over the batteries so you can still haul your garbage to the dump. 

My Elio is going to be delivered any day now. Why would I waste money on this vastly inferior vehicle?