I’m 32 and am the second owner of a pristine ‘02 Thunderbird in white and absolutely love it, and the looks it gets on cruises also seems like others think it’s at least worth taking a second look at.

I came here to say this. It’s not a popular opinion, but the T-Bird reboot is a Good Car, Actually. Let’s review:

I’m hoping there’s an endurance race/add-on modeled after the Carrera Panamericana.

The Mavericks biggest competitor will probably be the Ranger. People are going to look across the lot and want to sit in both. The Ranger is a nicer interior and more utility and honestly not that much larger. It does cost more though. I don’t know what 35k gets you in a Ranger but if its close enough people will…

I hadn’t really thought about it, but the inventory of cheap but somewhat reliable older cars is probably really, really down.

Good hypothesis. I thinks it is generally true.

My working hypothesis.....the assembly line model works and has been basically perfected for quite some time. the reliability of every mass produced vehicle is roughly the same. User error accounts for 99% of the “unreliability”.

the alternator was my fault for failing to clean mud out of the engine bay after taking the [smart] car into a mud bowl.

It was the only car you could be sitting at a stoplight and going 128 at the same time.

The Republic was good UNTIL Palpatine took over, you Empire sympathizer.

I like it... but then again, my mentor once referred to Avatar as, “The story of a heroic project manager facing setbacks by blue hippies.”

O2 sensors...

Replacing their wiper blades. I see so many cars around here with the wiper blades peeling apart, barely able to remove water from the window.

It’s definitely tires.

This is good Jalop.

He said the ship was veering to the right as it entered the canal and that the captain tried to pull the ship back to the center. He said the captain accelerated when the ship’s response was too slow. The ship veered instead to the left, and then to the right again before slamming into the bank of the canal, Mr.…

Slide 1: Yes

Grow up.

Every other car blog defaults to right leaning except for EV-specific ones. Can’t you just let us have this one?

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