These things are basically a simplified but bigger version of the 2GR-FE that powered the Lotus Exige V6.
Our pick of them all is the fourth-gen it’s pretty much the same car and parts that went into the Land Cruiser Prado and FJ Cruiser, fitted with a 4.0-litre V6 (the 1GR-FE) that might be the most slept-on engine we can think of. They live forever (rust, crashes and grenading 3.4 V6s notwithstanding), go just about anywhere and fly under the radar until you throw the contents of a parts catalogue at them. In our (admittedly limited) experience with the good people of the United States, we’ve found a few things, one of which is a deep love for the 4Runner.Īnd why wouldn’t there be? They’re the exact kind of Toyota that makes people get Toyotas and why people buy them. Of course it’ll need a tow truck at some point. missing out on that is perhaps not so great. And to think that same car could (and indeed has) gone overlanding in the Appalachians without a single change from the car that racked up those highway miles. We rode in the back of one from Woodstock in New York to Raleigh, North Carolina – a 600-mile trip – and apart from a small case of terminal boredom on the I-95 south of DC, it was one of the comfiest, most luxurious and just happiest passenger rides we’ve ever done. and then gets a 5.0-litre V8 we never did and progresses right up the line to Great Car™.Īnd so it went with the fourth-gen Land Rover Discovery – on its way over to the Pilgrims, it became the LR4 and the proud recipient of a 5.0-litre V8. You know what’s less great? When a bona fide Good Car™ gets sent off to go be a Good Car™ in another country. Get some walnuts or pecans to go with them, a nice cup of coffee. You know what’s pretty great? Medjool dates. And the Honda? Well, you could say that this was its. well, cars – as useful as possible in as many situations as possible. None more practical, of course, but a look that only the most utilitarian among us would ever lust after.īut then sometimes cars aren’t about being lusted after sometimes, they just need to be. If we had to look through a sartorial lens at the Honda Element (we’ll take sentences that’ve never been said for 200, Alex), it’d be a lot of layers up top, those zip-to-make-them-shorts trousers on the bottom, lace-up boots and a poncho in case it rains. We hope the fact that only steroidal and seriously indebted gym managers bought them was an appropriate response to the Ed Hardy deep v-neck of cars.Īnd if we’re in the middle of torturing a clothing metaphor, we may as well give the rack another twist. So, Americans get one of the cleverest, most practical cars ever made to fit the SUV shape.
Is there anything that isn’t better with a V8 and a TR-6060? Oh, and an off-the-shelf mounting kit for all of it, of course. But it’s America, after all, and you can bet your concealed carry permit that there’s a 5.0-litre Coyote, Tremec TR-6060 and co just waiting in the wings for this thing. OK, fine – you’re only getting the V6 version for this sort of money. Yep, not our finest.Īnd we start obviously enough, with cheap Mustangs – to get this shape of Mustang (the fifth-gen or S197) over here will run to least twice as much as it will over in the land of the fries and home of the Atlanta Braves. But this week, we thought we’d explore a few ideas about what we could get for 5,000 Pounds Sterling over in the land of. Yanks bemoan our easy access to Euro goodness, we dream about American muscle cars on endless highways, and Australians take one look at what Poms and Seppos can get for the money and cry into their Bundaberg.
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