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Here’s the thing: someone once asked Lewis Hamilton why his Zonda has a manual transmission, and his comment to was something to the effect of his company car was an automatic and why would he want that when he’s driving for fun.

I mean, I’ll play this game just because I’ve seen both of these come up multiple times in various sources. Seriously, get those pudgy fingers out of the Pringles can and over to the Googler.

Child support.

Since I would rather not interact with that deluded fool directly. . .

“betas”

Dear sweet Jesus.

Interesting. I presumed the ZF9 HP dictated the rest of the driveline hardware. Did GKN crib some homework from Active Drive I, because maybe that’s where my confusion comes in as that sounds like it behaves around the same as the Rennie’s AWD. I’d be curious to see if Active Drive II or Lock could be grafted onto a…

I’d have to double-check because Jeep calls everything “Active-Drive,” but the Renegade has more or less the same hardware as a consequence of using the same transmission. (The Trailhawk doubly so.) IIRC, the ZF9 HP in the Cherokee just has a better crawl ratio in its “low” gear.

This leads into what I think is…

Time to go pour own out.

I bought the correct version of the Renegade in 2015 and still have it in year of our lord 2023. That toaster has probably been the most reliable, problem free new car I’ve ever owned. It’s amazing yet unsurprising how Stellantis fucked this one up.

Yup, exactly what I was referencing.

IIRC, having a hooptie implies you also have a nice car, e.g. the hooptie is what you drive when the Benz is in the shop. Beater carries the same connotations. I kinda get the feeling a cigarette car is their only car.

Which is why we knew to buy our Toaster with the stick, because the ZF 9HP was a known shitshow from the KL Cherokee. It was always funny when a dealer tech would see the clutch pedal and tell us we bought the right one.

Not any form of emergency personal but correct me if I’m wrong. . .

I’m presuming the tools also operate at a measured pace because it’s probably a bad idea to blast a big chunk of trim at the victims, right?

Manual swap and respray. NP.
 
Then go insane, because IIRC there’s a one in three chance that replacement windscreen is that right factory tint.

“his right front ballpoint”

Bic certainly is not what it used to be.

If it ain’t armed with a six-tube SRM launcher and a particle projection cannon, I ain’t interested. . .

That’s because they’re starting to ask (and get) 15-20K for clean, low-mileage NAs and NBs. If you’re not interested in buying crusty gold at the bottom end of the market to work on in the garage/driveway as a project*, it doesn’t take an economics degree to figure out that for twice the price of a clean example you…

Not necessarily. I’m sure there’s enough of us young Gen-Xers and older Millennials that still have enough emotional connections to these cars to keep them rolling for another two or three decades.

A quick scan around Yearone seems to indicate I still can build a Chevelle from just a VIN plate and a wad of cash. As for…

So first house I bought came with two trash cans. Made this mistake. Found a drowned squirrel floating in the can I rarely used when I was doing some yard work around the garage.

You basically fill out a quick online form and pay a few bucks to a domain registrar (e.g. GoDaddy, which is probably the one everyone knows) and assuming no one else already beat you to it, boom, it’s (generally) yours as long as you pay your renewals. Functionally, the process is easier than registering a new car.

And…

While we’re on the subject of inflation, we could discuss that 800lb gorilla in the room. . .