The winter idiot and what to buy discussion

[Twitchin Kitten]

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I had one in '87 through '89 and loved it. Little hatchback unibody construction and you couldn't kill it. Got rear ended one day and the driver seat broke through the floor on one of the seat rails. I threw a wide piece of metal under it and kept on going for nearly a year until my new truck came in.
I think I had close to 700K miles on that little car.

The Alfa just melts me. I had one ages ago, a '76 Alfetta and I just loved that car. It didn't give us a day's worry, but yeah, those costs will kill me.

I really leaned toward the Explorer or the Expedition but dammit if you can't have a third row seat remove option. I don't give a shit if they fold flat. They'll stay folded flat for the entire time I own it wasting valuable space that could be used as a storage compartment via hatch or something. It's a damn mini-bus which may be good for families, not so much for me. Plus Ford is just about eliminating the manual transmission options for all their vehicles except the Mustang. What crap. They're already having issues with the automatics in the big trucks. Anyone who had driven over those mountains out west knows you need to pick and choose your gears. If one gear blows in an automatic, they're all useless. At least with a manual you can get a high enough rev to skip a gear and carry on then get it fixed.

I gotta get into a Subaru dealer and start asking questions. There is going to be some overlap in payments due to the shitty timing of the lease ending in January so I need to know exactly what i want.