Thanks, buddy.
Let her drive it for the first time in the church parking lot yesterday evening. Granted, it's a massive, empty lot, but she managed to figure out accelerating and decelerating without having me ricochet off of my seat, and while she only did a loop with a left turn, only once...
Reviving this old thread, because now that Thing 1 has a learner's permit and I've just had to replace the tail light that my sister smashed, I'm seriously considering a little extra protection. The eBay link above is still active, but it seems more cosmetic than anything else.
When we replaced the 2G Escape, the 3 choices we decided to test-drive were a Maverick, a Bronco Sport and the Ranger. They didn't have any Mavs, so that was cut. We took one look at the trunk of the BS and decided that just wasn't going to cut it (it's about 1/3 of the space we had in the 2G...
Welcome to the zoo, @22Splash. This is an Old School kind of place; sarcasm and tongue-in-cheek are the official languages spoken around here, and Charlie Brown sums up the spirit of this forum pretty well:
Dunno. I'm having issues with YouTube not wanting to load anymore, and I can't be bothered to figure out what nonsense they've come up with to try to compel me to either give them my money or my data to sell.
Son: So, Dad, why did Mom lock you out of the house?
Dad: She heard me on the phone with Uncle Steve, talking about running errands.
Son: So, what did you guys do?
Dad: Uncle Steve went to get a used car, while I went to the store to get stuff to remove paint from the patio furniture.
Son...