Jeep’s kinda the crown jewel here. I would not entertain combining it with any brand.

Move Ram back under Dodge. Kill Chrysler and rebadge the Pacifica as a Dodge. Whack Opel and Vauxhall outright at this point.  I’d need to rummage through the sales number as far as how to combine the French and Italian marques. …

Sea Shanty is also a song by the Burning Sensations.

Duuuuuuuuude....memories.

Back in the day when I was young and stupid(er), I once had to slip a four foot length of steel fence post over my ratchet to get the front axle bolt loose on my old Gixxer. Which is why I later added breaker bars to my toolbox.

I believe you missed a step. . .

While we’re keeping it in the family, I’ll throw in my own biased bonus anwer:

Jeep Renegade w/ manual, aka the Fat 500 Abarth: now with all-wheel-drive!

Came here expecting this, and if it wasn’t here I was damn well going to put it on the list.

Had an ‘04 from new until some dimwit hit it in the quarter panel. Great cars and for all the criticism of the design, it looks far less dated today than Mays’ retro-Stang. Just ditch the wing. They’re basically an alternative…

It depends.

Someone I worked with in another life was a former GM employee who supported their vehicle ordering systems. Apparently, if the paint robots lost communication with the server they’d just keep spraying cars the color specified on the last car through, resulting in a car that may be a color that wasn’t…

I’m with you on the N54. Maybe the 335is and its additional oil cooler could handle some track duty but heat-soak’d kill the normal turbo’d N5x engines.

But in keeping with your C1 analogy, you could spend similar money for the comparatively newer C2 ‘Vette and have the much better car. Here, my problem is you can…

I scored a 60K-mile 2011 E90 335i (the final MY put the N55 in the sedan) xDrive w/ manual for significantly less. It also came with an extra set of wheels with new Blizzaks.

That’s the problem with this car: there’s too many “better” options from the similar money. I’d rather snag a nice E82 128i, or even a ratty E92…

I like the cut of your jib.

Had more or less the same thought. Mid-spec W and G bodied cars with the NA 3800 are sub-five all day long and should outlast the sun. That leaves at least ten large to get a good middleweight bike.

Obligatory.

This is interesting, yes, but certainly no where near nine large interesting.

Forgot about that, to be honest. Fingers crossed for the new KLR. Saw some random speculation of a Versys-X 650 but it’s just internet spitballing. Still, that’d be prettty cool.

Apologies if I just dented your wallet.

I think we’re hitting the point where carbs’ll be legislated out of existence. Small loss, to be honest, as FI just makes life soooo much nicer.

The Versys-X 400 is still all but 120% guaranteed (I mean, there’s always a chance of full-scale nuclear war breaking out or that planet-killer asteroid finally hitting) and…

I’m hoping the slow death of the 600cc race rep will open a window for Kawi to put a punched-out “ZX-3R” with 70-80hp in US showrooms. Probably right after they finally get off their metaphorical dicks and give us the Versys-X 400 and a fuel-injected KLR replacement.

“. . . the first TMNT game on the NES. . .”

Talking about the damn dam level? It’s massively unfair, unless you actually remember to use the tag-team mechanic they tried to pound in your head, only for you to use Donatello, or maaaybe Leonardo, ad nauseam until that point. I actually felt the jealous rage of young me…

Wrong nerd church, wrong nerd pew-pew-pew.

This was my first thought, too.

Correct me if I’m wrong, fellow old-timers, but way back in the day, didn’t we used to have a guy. . .

I expect that there’s one lonely, glorious “Nice Price” letting me know that weirdo’s still out there somewhere.