UConnect in my 2013 Wrangler managed to be offensively bad. Just awful. 

I haven’t, but thank you!

Indignantly digs out the paperwork to find it is Hot Pepper. :(

I don’t think you’re right about Rapid Red, I’ve got an XLT hybrid order in with that color. 

I don’t think a lot of people realize just HOW rare the ITRs and even GSRs were and how many base models were masquerading as them. My favorite anecdote from the time was someone at a car show had to display his ITR window sticker to show it was a real one. 

I like this gen, it seems more than fine and a great use of…

I can’t get rid of mine. Unoptioned, manual, beat to absolute crap... it’s just such good transportation. 

Oregonians. Fine in the rain, Fine in the dry. Have fucking pileups at every transition and it transitions all the time.

I can’t imagine how slow it is with those tires. 

I’m from a Saab family. I learned to drive in an 86 9000 turbo, manual. I saw my dad buy a few Saabs, and friends don’t let friends buy GM built Saabs.

I think the MSF course does a great job of teaching how to use a clutch. Motorcycles shift really differently (Hand vs Foot for clutch, Foot vs Hand for gears) but finding the friction point, applying gas, using the clutch at stops, recovery from stalls was all gone over really really well with instruction.

I had a 98 tacoma with 250k miles that I regret selling. And I think about this a lot, because while it felt very reliable, I also was spending a lot of money in maintenance both to fix some stuff, and just maintain some stuff. It felt better than my spreadsheet of costs shows.

11/15 was the last day for hybrid orders, I believe. I ordered on 11/14 so I’ll let you know here shortly!

Word on Maverick forums is that Ford marks every truck in transit as available on dealer websites regardless of whether it is a customer order or not.

My former father in law gave us the ultimate white elephant 944, a car my wife grew up with and looooved. And we didn’t drive it a ton, it was really the summer car, and I had a trickle charger on it and don’t really remember why the battery died., but it died. So I pushed it out of the garage to start it for the…

Type Rs were so rare back in the day that the guys who had them actually had to show their window stickers at car shows to prove they were actually Rs. 

It doesn’t let the air out of the spaceship so this is really more of an inconvenience than a problem, right?

I’ve read your replies to a couple of dealer threads... and your common sense comes from being like, good at this shit. And I’m not. BUT I was at least V10omous enough to look at this reservation scheme of Ford’s and nope right out, because it had “held hostage by the dealer” written all over it. And goddamn I wanted…

Gladiators, and...

Bigtime. My dad was stationed in Germany and desperately wanted a diesel Mercedes, but the dollar value changed and he ended up getting one of the first Saab 9000 turbos in 86. I learned to drive in that car, and I haven’t stalled anything on the street since. Our father son thing was the American Lemans races at PIR…

It’s the options that get you. The base is a pretty solid deal for what you’re getting and then you take a passing glance at an automatic transmission, and next thing you know dealers are only getting into inventory trucks that have 15k in options on what was a 30k rig.