For anyone wondering why some supply chains took so long to get going, this a good (albeit much more complicated) example of why you can’t just shut manufacturing plants down.

I don't think the princess will be caught dead in a minivan. 

No one has ever associated Subaru with prestige or luxury. 

Just no. Get out of here with the prestige brand. Coming from someone who has nice cars but also sold cars for a long time, you need to get a normal car. Anything in a luxury brand that’s going to be within your price range is going to be older. Given you’ve exhausted your finances I’m assuming you will need to get a…

You can TASTE the contempt. I love it.

It was about 48 minutes after moving from NYC to the tree lined streets of suburban New Jersey that we realized one car isn’t going to be enough (even when it’s a most excellent Volvo V60 Polestar) and we need a second one.

Lexus GX from 2011-2012 should be under 20k with ~100k miles.

Prestige brand, 20K SUV. Who are you fooling beside yourself ?

Here ya go. Luxurious, safe, reliable, and it might still be worth $18,000 when you sell it in a year. 2013 Lexus GX.

The only possible answer begins and ends with Lexus if you want to hit the center of the “Reliable - luxurious brand- used and cheap” Venn diagram.

Prestige brand SUV and Jersey already has me in snark mode. My personal recommendation would be the nicest possible Mazda5 but that’s neither prestige nor SUV. More seriously a used Lexus RX is the best balance of badge “luxury” and running costs. Or possibly an equivalent Acura. Either one gives you some fanciness…

Corvettes are the perfect answer unless you are stuck in high school caring what other people think about you.

Don’t get an S2000 unless you want to keep it clean and treat it as an investment - the Toyota 86 (or any of its other badged names) is the answer. A stock FRS drives better on track than my S2000 did when it was stock, plus S2000s are appreciating so rapidly that you’ll feel bad beating on it on the track and…

The NA Mercedes SLK55 would be fine if he never puts the top down. Corvettes are wasted on old people. I’m 30 and have a C5, use it for what it was made for and it’s perfect for what he’s looking for. Don’t knock the model for their first owners, and appreciate them for buying them new, taking good care of them, and…

No Toyoburu recommendations? You can get one nearly new, with a warranty. They’re decent on gas and a shit-ton of fun to drive. 

I get the Bezos hate in the peanut gallery here for some many other things, but this is likely nothing to do with him.

You assume it’s Bezos who actually was instrumental is this becoming an issue?

Because it shouldn’t be about him? Rotterdam is a shipbuilding centre, and the bridge span is removable. If they want to keep being a world-class shipbuilding center, they should probably be able to built tall ships and not let crybullies tell them not to. 

Just a simple adjective change in the media from “old” to “historic” and suddenly people are very concerned about the temporary removal of bolts from some steel bridge in another hemisphere to allow passage of large loads.