I have a 2006 manual Xterra with rear locker and 4x4. You can get that configuration up to 2015, when they dropped them altogether. The only SUV’s with a manual anymore are that (through 2015) and the Wrangler (still available, and will be in next gen as well.)

You might make it to the Michigan-Indiana border with that, but unless you leave a week early you won’t have enough time for en-route repairs to make it to Moab in time.

Mazda CX-5 Grand Touring. All the bells and whistles, AWD, not too powerful, efficient (24 city/30 hwy), still fun to drive, seats five, AWD for the occasional trip to Mammoth, or get FWD and a manual transmission to combat texting and driving.

That or a CX-5... girls loving crossovers and all...

My Guess: Reduce factory pollution restrictions, retract CARB/EPA laws, outlaw catalytic converters, subsidize coal-powered trucks and commercial trucks, create tit-for-tat tariffs, more tariffs, and then some extra tariffs. And probably bomb anyone still being lippy about it...

F that for a story. I’ve passed many police officers going at or even slightly above the speed limit on the highway. If you’re going with the flow of traffic, reasonably near the speed limit, you’re not in the wrong.

The real question is whether it’s reliable enough to baby...

Passion, and/or resale value vs repair cost... That’s about it. Jeeps and Land Cruisers pull heartstrings, imaginations, the need for wanderlust, and thus they get repaired. Then there’s the random nutcases who love old Ford Tempos, and things like that. But most of them are easy to predict...

The Columbians will appreciate this.

That is not a vehicle anymore. It is simply used up. What you have is a template, a 3D instruction manual of roughly how it was built, and what will go wrong over the course of a century, but it is not meant to move under its own power.

Ugly headlights and front fascia. Rear is so-so, rest is ok. None of it makes me want to part with any money...

The weirdest thing to me is this is one of the most expensive cars you can buy, for showing-off purposes, they’ve been building these longer than I’ve been alive, and I’m 45.

Is that the special X5 Token edition?

Drive fast, take chances. But he already knew that.

Only George Jetson has better forward visibility...

That’s surprising. I wonder what networks the GM system runs on?

It’s probably great, as long as you’re ‘exploring’ near the interstate, or large population centers...

Horses for courses and strokes for folks... There are many types.

Subaru Outback. World’s most practical vehicle. It has more interior space than a Grand Cherokee, vastly better reliability, and gets 30mpg in 4cyl guise, which is all you need in MN. And it has a 5 star NCAP rating.

(1) The driver sucks. Because he had one job to do.