It’s not just this, it’s also that people in the US, on average, are quite poor on top of having very little vacation time. Between our sickcare system bleeding us dry, effectively no vacation time, and low incomes relative to the cost of living, vacations are a luxury that isn’t in most budgets. Even the national…

My family has short commutes by local standards, fuel efficient cars, drives far less than average, and we carpool most days... In spite of this, we still average about 25 gallons a month.

If it wasn’t so difficult and expensive to immigrate, our tired, our poor, our huddled masses, our wretched poor refuse, our homeless, and our tempest-tost would be happy to leave this teeming shore for yours.

So jealous. Ours is over a dollar more per gallon.

Yeah, unless almost all of these had salvage titles, were in accidents, and/or had seized engines, I can’t imagine they only have $500 into these cars. I bet most were $2k. Almost everything at $500 on my local CL has a bad engine, bad transmission, or is in extremely sketchy condition (like major body damage, has sat…

Yes, and the prerunner trucks are 2WD.

I imagine the parts added to a lot of these are well over $500. LeMons has a similar thing going because you can theoretically use anything you have, obtain in trade, etc. That’s why they have that rule that you must sell any car you enter to the organizers for $500 if they believe you spent more on it (not counting…

Came to say this, but figured someone else already did. Take your star!

Can confirm. Don’t know where “Southern Squat” or “Carolina Squat” came from, but the bro truck thing is actually to mimic Baja prerunner trucks. They’re almost invariably 2wd trucks, too.

If I didn’t own a FoST, I’d buy a FoRS. The low 30k range is totally reasonable for one...

Your arguments conflict with each other. I feel I’m being trolled.

They’re kind of like Buick or Mercury before they were axed. Basically, they make tarted up versions of Hondas. That’s not a bad thing, it just is what it is. You might argue the NSX elevates them, but it’s a Honda NSX in other markets (it’d be like Ford branding the GT a Mercury for our market, if Mercury still…

I think the track stickers are great there.

This is a little odd. More stealth that even my black Oppo on the black border of my rear quarter window.

Did you read my comment? See the last paragraph.

But when was the last time you, a serious car buyer, got excited to plop your hard-earned money down on a Fiesta, Fusion, Focus or Taurus—that did not have an ST or an RS badge?

Every ST made/sold since they reintroduced the model/trim in the North American markets was a 5-door.

Their first mistake was trying to sell cars with a dry clutch DCT built under a dim light in to people that would drive them in the traffic hellscape that is the US, their second mistake is making sedan versions of the Fiesta & Focus, and their third mistake is benchmarking their profit against GM.

This is a problem with a lot of older cars that were special when new and suffered severe depreciation so their second/third/etc owners were the type that couldn’t/wouldn’t maintain them properly. An expensive car still needs the maintenance it expects regardless of how little you paid for it.

My late brother was eating Arby’s curly fries with a “cup of cheddar” (cheese sauce they put on the Beef’N’Cheddar) at least 20 years ago.