Came in looking for confirmation NASCAR is still stupid/hypocritical, did not leave disappointed.

I think you forgot to include the XJ on your list. Cheap to buy, easy and cheap to maintain and as reliable as any reasonable person would want. The 4.0 is a great, long-lived engine and the 2.5 isn't too shabby either. The ubiquitous AW4 transmission made it into a lot of them and the axles are solid. They're…

My wife actually let’s me baby (on rare occasion) with my XJ. Our little one year old girl loves the view she gets from her rear-facing seat. It’s much expansive than our MKVI Sportwagen

“You don’t realize the enormity until you see the impact from it.”

This right here is a prime example of a question that answers itself.

I believe that Honda’s mileage may prove to be better than what’s on the tin, but time will prove that out. I also believe that the ride quality, more-than-sufficient capability, packaging/size and likely reliability are what you get in the tradeoff you described.

Neutral: Probably not as long as men have something between their legs to scratch or readjust.

This will probably get lost in the torrent of comments that have already been made, but what the hell. I’m kind of disappointed by a fair number of the comments here. I always figured Jalops had automotive enthusiasm that was tempered by a dose of sensibility. Obviously, that’s not the case for all you here.

“Waaah,…

Seafoam Deep Creep is your friend. I just did all four shocks on my XJ and didn’t break uno bolt-o. Even the notorious upper-rear shock bolts survived the encounter unscathed. For good measure, I did the sway bar end links, steering damper and all four tie rods. After I couldn’t separate the hubs from the steering…

Welp, now I gave morning wood, so thanks for that.

That thought crossed my mind too. I don’t have ABS (or power anything for that matter) either, though. Now where did I put my box or tinfoil...

Fuck all these guys. I’ll happily keep driving my ‘98 Cherokee, which I’m not even sure has a black box. All it tells me is my speed, fuel reserves, vital engine information and radio station. I own it and all the knowledge of what transpires inside of it. Maybe the auto manufacturers can think about branching into…

I’m with you, Torch. In fact, it’s arguably the only decent looking car Porsche is currently offering. There, I said it and no takesies-backsies.

Here we go again with GM’s twisted addiction to platform spinoff proliferation.

Oh Cog.

I don’t know if I have a lot of clever mechanical tricks to suggest, since those are usually pretty straight forward for me. The tougher stuff is fiddly cosmetic stuff that grates on my nerves, even with older beater vehicles. Here’s a couple tips I recently used on my XJ.

If you’re replacing or adjusting old door…

Hindsight 20/20 is a helluva drug. I definitely considered this after the damage was done.

I’ve fallen into the same logical fallacy, David.

Think OEM carpet floormats from a 1991 Volvo 940, soaking in a laundry tub with cleanser (sure, why not?) and then run through the dryer because I was in a hurry to sell it. Suffice it to say, I was spending the next hour using a cloth and toothbrush cleaning out the…

I’m glad to hear that. After seeing all the love, sweat and tears poured into the SC Moab runner and your resuscitation of the XJ on the way home, I was moved. Although I sort of feel as though I’m being a tad disingenuous because it is a 4x2 and I desired it for that reason (simpler, cheaper maintenance, *slightly*…

Normally, I’m not a proponent of cross-posting or re-posting but in this case, I will because relevance and I was late to the Swiss Cheese conclusion story the other day: