The only real issue here is stuff that gets neglected until it breaks. We have an old K5 blazer that’s been in the family since it was new. The old people changed the oil and just drove it. My mom blew the engine at 99k miles and they had it replaced with a rebuilt long block. Engine plus labor was $1500, 25 years…

“ “With demand for near-new vehicles on the decline, used car values are depreciating similarly to the way they did before the pandemic,”

The bar is so low right now with jeep/truck wheels. Seriously, they all look like complete testosterone/energy drink fueled hot garbage.

Thar it is.

I noticed an Ecosport in the wild for the first time about a month ago. I had thought there could be nothing more potato-like than the Buick Encore, but I was wrong. For a car with the right capabilities, I can put up with a fair amount of ugly. But not this.

Maybe it’s the whole forbidden fruit thing, but I just hate that Ford pulled the plug on Fiesta before we got the new generation.

I cannot imagine owning a 1.2L crossover and not wanting to drive off the nearest bridge.

This would ruin the experience for me too..I had a good shap cj7 and was worth about 8k and it still ruined it the experience worrying about denting/damage

Fancy.  Do people really take 60k dollar vehicle offroading though?  This thing is insanely priced much like the Ranger and Jeep for that matter. 

There are a few places in America (ye olde Colonial “living museums”) where they try to get unadulterated seeds to grow crops as they were in the pre-Revolutionary-era, and animals that haven’t been cross-bred as far as they know.

Two things:

It’s because it went from an interesting competitor in the sports car market, to outdated, now to a value, because very single other sports car like it is either defunct or WAY too expensive for someone in a regular tax bracket. If you want a sports car with similar stats, similar feel and similarly equipped you are…

Bullying sales tactics don’t work anymore, period [in my mind, they never have]. I’ve been in tech sales for a long time now, and it’s always hide-under-the-couch cringey when a manager suggests some unnatural pressure tactic to get a deal done...there’s a reason the sales profession is shat upon by most people and…

but theres a huge difference between making cold calls than answering emails. You know when a customer emails you, they are more than likely looking for a car now, while making cold calls to customers, who are vastly not interested in buying a car right now and trying to turn them is a lot harder. Bullying sales…

They needed to judge this by what it will actually be used for:

Somewhere in the obscurity bin. At this point I only recognize 4 cars from Chevy:

I temporarily had interest in finding a Jeep Gladiator when they first came out (Sport, $35k or so).

Why no one offers SUV’s with sliding doors is beyond me. All my van owning fellow parent friends say “but vans are so great because sliding doors...” and that’s about it. Why not offer a full-size body-on-frame SUV with sliding doors, a V8 and a towing capacity to match?

I realize this isn’t the off-roader in the family, but why make it if it’s just going to be a redressed Escape?  You need to offer something besides a look.

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