Living in Denver and spending a great deal of time in local wrecking yards, I see plenty of discarded Subarus. It’s an unwritten law that every Denver resident must own a dog and a Subaru, which means you’ll find dog water bowls in front of most businesses and Subarus in most parking spaces. When Outbacks […]
Tag: 2003
Junkyard Gem: 2003 Land Rover Freelander SE
Back around the turn of the century, it had long been obvious to passenger-vehicle manufacturers that SUVs would be the key to financial survival. Big truck-based SUVs, medium-sized unibody SUVs, hatchbacks that looked sort of SUV-ish, and compact SUVs, that was the ticket! Land Rover got into the compact-SUV game with the Freelander, which was […]
Divorce rate: Splits in Britain PLUMMET by more than a third since numbers peaked in 2003
GETTY – STOCK IMAGE A 34 per cent drop in the number of relationship breakdowns has been recorded A 34 per cent drop in the number of relationship breakdowns in the last 12 years was recorded by the Office of National Statistics. The annual rate was also down with 101,055 divorces of opposite sex couples […]
Sell your own: 2003 Lexus SC 430
At the Lexus SC 430 preview – in the spring of 2000 – the disappointment among automotive journalists was palpable. Lexus had taken the truly captivating design of the first-generation SC and essentially disregarded it, replacing the earlier architecture with one drawn by Toyota’s team in Europe. The contrast wasn’t as strong (or dysfunctional) as […]