Car Talk 6: Best of times and Worst of Times

[D Griff]

"Why not get a 911" Exactly her response.

TWO TRUNKS

[J-Ho-Fo-Show69]

This is the way Johnny!! Sporty is fun, but dammit do I love bopping around in my wrangler.

I’ve recently added a third car to the fleet for the first time in my life, now I can realistically afford it. In the past I’ve had fun dailies… but they’re all compromise cars and I get tired of the compromise and bail out.

Now the fleet is the Prius Prime for my commute, the Miata for the weekends and nice days to work… and the wife drives our JLUR soft top. The Wrangler drove me to the Miata. I love driving that thing with the roof off and being able to do it in a sports car is sublime.

Pics of the JL?

All this S2K and Miata talk has me wanting another S. I’ve seen some things online about Honda brining the s2k back.

Do you like your Miata?

[fledonfoot]

I’ve recently added a third car to the fleet for the first time in my life, now I can realistically afford it. In the past I’ve had fun dailies… but they’re all compromise cars and I get tired of the compromise and bail out.

Now the fleet is the Prius Prime for my commute, the Miata for the weekends and nice days to work… and the wife drives our JLUR soft top. The Wrangler drove me to the Miata. I love driving that thing with the roof off and being able to do it in a sports car is sublime.

Pics of the JL?

All this S2K and Miata talk has me wanting another S. I’ve seen some things online about Honda brining the s2k back.

Do you like your Miata?

Miata rocks, as it should

[J-Ho-Fo-Show69]

Pics of the JL?

All this S2K and Miata talk has me wanting another S. I’ve seen some things online about Honda brining the s2k back.

Do you like your Miata?

Miata rocks, as it should

Love the blue! Proper lockers and ATs too. Are those Falkens the A/T3?

[Johnny_P]

This is the way Johnny!! Sporty is fun, but dammit do I love bopping around in my wrangler.

I’ve recently added a third car to the fleet for the first time in my life, now I can realistically afford it. In the past I’ve had fun dailies… but they’re all compromise cars and I get tired of the compromise and bail out.

Now the fleet is the Prius Prime for my commute, the Miata for the weekends and nice days to work… and the wife drives our JLUR soft top. The Wrangler drove me to the Miata. I love driving that thing with the roof off and being able to do it in a sports car is sublime.

You have a pretty solid fleet at this point!

[Johnny_P]

I think I probably should have done an SUV because I just like them better. But the accord is good so far.

Like if the Atlas had a hybrid option. Or even the Tiguan. I’d have done that.

[fledonfoot]

Miata rocks, as it should

Love the blue! Proper lockers and ATs too. Are those Falkens the A/T3?

They are - they've been fine - exactly what you'd expect them to be. They're about 2/3 of the way gone and will need replacement soon. She's debating BFG KO2's with white letters, I'm not so sure.
Chief was a 6 week production run in 2021 and I was lucky to score one - thanks to Chris's help, I was able to score a hell of a lease deal. Just bought it out a few weeks ago and will hold on to this for a while.

[J-Ho-Fo-Show69]

Love the blue! Proper lockers and ATs too. Are those Falkens the A/T3?

They are - they've been fine - exactly what you'd expect them to be. They're about 2/3 of the way gone and will need replacement soon. She's debating BFG KO2's with white letters, I'm not so sure.
Chief was a 6 week production run in 2021 and I was lucky to score one - thanks to Chris's help, I was able to score a hell of a lease deal. Just bought it out a few weeks ago and will hold on to this for a while.

I'm rocking the KBro2's on my TJ. It probably is the best all around AT in my opinion. The Mickey Thompsons look absolutely sick, but I don't think they ride as well on pavement. Which is like 90% of what I do in the TJ.

I like the idea of the white lettering facing out personally. I think it would really pop with your blue and add an old school look. The red and the blue jeeps really pull that white lettering off. I don't know about the white lettering with your wheels though. I feel like it would clash. I think if you were going to do that, wait until you're going to change tires and paint the lettering on your tires the same white to see how you feel about it on the car. I've done that with stuff in the past to decide if I want white wall out or not.

[D Griff]

Pics of the JL?

All this S2K and Miata talk has me wanting another S. I’ve seen some things online about Honda brining the s2k back.

Do you like your Miata?

Miata rocks, as it should

Man, those with the blue are the hotness.

[SAWCE]

Miata rocks, as it should

Man, those with the blue are the hotness.

I fucking love bronze I’ll throw some on the Mini at some point. Been chatting with Amir about what he can get that fits it.

[max225]

Move over Scat aka shit pack …
We have a new best name in town …

Lobo for lobotomy

[Desertbreh]

Move over Scat aka shit pack …
We have a new best name in town …

Lobo for lobotomy

Fun fact. All F-150s in MX are Lobos.

[max225]

?!

[Desertbreh]

?!

True story. Mexicans like trucks named after packs of predators, not numbers.

[max225]

Google tells me it is a "mexican wolf" wtf is a Mexican wolf?

[wap]

Google tells me it is a "mexican wolf" wtf is a Mexican wolf?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_wolf



We have some at one of our zoos here, I think.

[Desertbreh]

Google tells me it is a "mexican wolf" wtf is a Mexican wolf?

Dude. It's just a timberwolf located in the southwest or mexico. Za? Pop? That kinda thing.

[max225]

Google tells me it is a "mexican wolf" wtf is a Mexican wolf?

Za? .

Ok genuinely curious if anyone has heard of a Lobo, outside of the resident Desert Fox

[J-Ho-Fo-Show69]

Za? .

Ok genuinely curious if anyone has heard of a Lobo, outside of the resident Desert Fox

These Hispanic ladies always called dogs lobos when I worked at Ross. I looked it up and thought it was funny. Then one day, we had this new girl start (fresh in the US from Mexico), she claimed a lobo ate her cats and she was going to curse its soul. My translation may have messed that up, but she def said a lobo ate something

[SAWCE]

I hadn’t heard of F-150s being called Lobos in Mexico, but I did know that lobos was Spanish for wolf…

[max225]

my fob ways are shining through

[D Griff]

Za? .

Ok genuinely curious if anyone has heard of a Lobo, outside of the resident Desert Fox

I have not. Seems like it's maybe more commonplace in SoCal near the border.

[Desertbreh]

Za? .

Ok genuinely curious if anyone has heard of a Lobo, outside of the resident Desert Fox

I mean, it's not just a nickname. It's printed on the side of the truck.

https://autos.mercadolibre.com.mx/ford/lobo/

[D Griff]

Man, a million bucks for an F150...

[J-Ho-Fo-Show69]

Man, a million bucks for an F150...