The Toyota Venza - not so much that it looks "best" in brown as "least hideous."

I'm more partial to the later FSJs, but I can't say I disagree with you, they wear any earth tone well.

I don't have any specific brand or model-related notoriety. In fact, I'm not even necessarily the "car guy" - having come from an automotive program, quite a few of my friends love cars too. I just happen to love more esoteric iron (compared to most of them), and have a wider breadth of knowledge (again, compared to most of them, instead of you fine folk). I do have one friend though (occasional commenter here too) who can match me though.

Something about it not being a dramatic transformation - they took a very good, very quick car, and filled it with awesome.

Oh, I knew we got them, essentially by accident. I'm just shocked a cheap obscure 27-year old Italian car has survived here - the car you posted is for sale right now, the only one on Auto Trader in the entire country. I'd assume it'd be easier to go through the whole importation process than to find one (if not for this specific one).

I was shocked any of these were actually for sale in Canuckia. Also, I really didn't need another reason to visit Montreal.

Going slightly the other way, what about this:


To this:


Or this:


To this (I'd have just gone with the Trailblazer SS, but the Saab's got a slightly nicer interior. Slightly):

Fantastically cool as the Thema 8.32 is, isn't it only marginally faster than the next slowest version which wasn't complete maintenance hell?

The sole applicant was one P.N. Guin. Thankfully, the navy no longer disposes of stealth boats to persons who don't even leave their full addresses.

I might be among the few that wasn't entirely bothered by the footwell in the GMs - I just ended up resting my knee against the door. And in spite of being boehemoths that I'd rather not take into tight spaces, they weren't terrible to drive - just very nervous on the highway. That said, a late-model Silverado is better in just about every way possible since GM's spent some money developing it since '96