Ah... rich fuck problems. I’d rather he put the money about to be spent on lawyer fees into commissioning an even smaller violin that I will happily play for him. 

Beat me to it. And they sound amazing when you do any sort of exhaust work. 

Since you didn’t mention reliability, what about a first-gen Audi S5 with a nice big V8 (the same 4.2 FSI from the RS4 before they switched to a boring supercharged V6 in 2013). There are quite a few examples in your price range with under 100k miles. They are a bit heavy but they make a nice noise, are super composed …

To me it’s really nothing to do with the name, but the buyers. They’re just like Dodge, with new models split generally between those that can actually afford one and those that can’t. With Dodge, you have the SRTs and with Chrysler you have the Pacifica. The rest of the fleet is the Nissan of the American cars,…

No amount of marketing can position Chrysler in the same sentence as Rolls-Royce and Bentley.

The name itself just sounds old, like something driven in the 1930s. 

Honest question. Does the Chrysler name really have any brand equity left for buyers, under the age of, say, 50? I can understand the types of people that gravitate to Jeep, Dodge and RAM, but Chrysler just seems, well dead on arrival.

I have a boomer neighbor who always fumes about this sort of stuff. He hates it when I point out that he will probably be dead by then.

(sarcastic mode on) Yeah that pretty much matches up with the notes from a recent Woodside City Council meeting on ‘Minimally Acceptable Vehicles for Woodside Residents’

I had an old Land Rover in college. It was like sitting on a throne on a raised dais, surveying my kingdom.

This “special” feeling is one of the intangible things about full size Land Rovers and Range Rovers that is really hard to explain to people who haven’t owned them before. You don’t so much sit inside, you sit on top of it. We looked at all of the following luxury SUVs, and there’s a reason we are on our 4th RR. The…

Eh, my family is from Defender central (fancy pretend-rural England) and I’m in SoCal, where these things seem to be breeding, and major unreliability not been reflected in anecdotal experience. Everybody has had the odd “why is the HVAC/screen/entertainment doing that?” moment, but are there modern cars that don’t hav…

More than you realize.

I’m a big Land Rover fan (we have a 2019 Range Rover, and a rusty old 1984 Defender soon to make its way across the pond once we have our paperwork in order. I also don’t like the new Defender) so I am absolutely the target market for this car. It just looks odd, like a fake brand or a generic Grand Theft Auto video…

I saw one in the supermarket car park last week. It is to a Defender what a Mahindra is to a Wrangler.

Its not better! Your subjective view need not poison all that is HOLY! The Range Rover!! phucka Porsche 

Add $1k more to your budget and you can pick up a current-shape Volvo XC90 like this $21k from CarMax, which should fit in nicely in the leafy suburbs of Jersey.

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

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…

The LR products are not so crushing if you are willing to pick up a wrench. Especially, LR3's are surprisingly reliable and definitely robust and the 4.4l is the best engine ever to grace a LR product.