WTH is Scotty Kilmer's problem, anyway?
This applies to politics these days too! Anyone with an adult brain should be able to see that their own “tribe” has faults and that the other tribe isn’t all bad. Some of us just can’t seem to admit it these days. Why? How have our tribes gotten so small?
I tend to enjoy hanging out and talking with car enthusiasts of all stripes. There’s something to admire and appreciate in all kinds of enthusiast cars...even if I will probably go to the grave “knowing” that the best looking, best performing hotrods of the Muscle car era ALL came from Chrysler. :)
So I do feel some loyalty and I’m a huge fan of modern Mopar. I love the majority of what they have to offer...but as my wife and I shop to replace her Honda CR-V, the Fiat-based Cherokee compeitor isn’t even on the list. Even if I do secretly like them, I don’t trust them.
Gotta tell you, there's only a few cars in the modern stable that even draw my eye and only a few are Chrysler.
Love the idea of an all wheel drive Hemi powered Charger. Lots of curves where I live to play with the awd in planting power down, having the loud pedal on tap, and the four doors for the boys...
Former mother in law had a '12 Challenger. My rather arrogant, only knows what people tell her, sister in law, thought it was blasphemous to own a four door since her mom owned the Challenger. Guess who had to climb in the backseat and put the carseats in? Wasn't me. After a few times of doing that she got the idea of why a four door is handy. But I digress.
The other is foreign made - the Genesis.
Truthfully, I'd be just as content to find a slant powered F- or M-body wagon as the kid hauler and use my Civic just for work.
I'm surrounded with "keep up with the Jones's" mentality. My ex's grandfather has a lake cottage, a home in Florida, buys a new car in cash every two or three years and the family acts like they need to keep up. My ex mother in law thought her daughter needed something newer to go back and forth to college. Along comes a car loan for a '14 200. "Well, she needs something newer and more reliable for college." No, the truth is, she couldn't bear the idea that her daughter would be seen in something older.
Heard it all, throughout my marriage. "Newer is more reliable!" They all forgot I was a dealership technician for most of my career and spent a lot of time working on that "reliable" **** that would come in on hooks.
But, damn it, I digressed again and you caught me rambling.
Personally, I spent a lot of time when I owned the restoration shop working on GM and Fords. Of the GM's I rather have any of the Pontiacs I restored above and beyond the Chevies. Getting back into the '50's I'd take a Ford over the GM's. And while I love the '50's Hemis and Poly's I'd rather not have to deal with the Chrysler sheetmetal, even though they were building the better looking cars.
Spent a lot of time working on the modern stuff. Hell, I don't even want to change the timing belt in my Civic and I have all the tools to do it. I'll more than likely farm it out. I'm done with modern stuff.
Now, let me build my '69 Plymouth or '78 F250 and I'm all in.