The few times I actually used my Suburban to haul stuff, it was awesome. My dad had a similar Silverado, and we needed to take a motor + stand over to a machine shop. We couldn’t quite get the motor high enough to get into the bed with the stand on it.

Yes, wealth is concentrating to historic record levels because ... some people are bad with money. Certainly not because of big money in politics, corporate tax avoidance, accelerated corporate consolidation that’s been going on for 40 years now, and on and on.

I have a 2008 Avalanche with close to 300k and I plan on keeping it for as long as humanely possible. The folding midgate is awesome and gets regular use. Everyone who says “get a minivan” misses one crucial point. You cant just throw mulch, Soil, Concrete, or anything dirty on the back of a minivan without destroying…

I mean, I’ve been known to argue just because I’m bored, but defending the Chevy Avalanche is sure as hell not the hill I’m willing to die on.

So I took what you were saying into consideration. I looked at the specs for the same years. The 2002 crew cab Silverado 1500 with the 6.5’ bed was 230 inches long. The 2002 Avalanche (inaugural year) was 221 inches & came with a 5.5’ bed. They shared the same wheelbase though. So you only had an additional 9” of…

I used to have my own trailer when I renovated my first house 20 years ago. Went in halves with a friend and we abused the thing for a decade. But this time around I just rent as needed for $20/day. Not worth the bother to own one unless you use it CONSTANTLY. Which is my opinion of pickup trucks too, of course. But…

Yeah, but now you have all the ass pain of a trailer to deal with.  Have you ever tried to park a vehicle with a trailer in tow?  Or ever rent a trailer?  

Sure it’ll carry it.  But it won’t be covered by the bed cover.  And then you’re still driving a vehicle that’s a lot longer than an Avalanche.  So it sounds like to me the crew cab with the 6' bed is the more inefficient choice, to me.  A lot of wasted space, and a less maneuverable, and still swallows less cargo. …

You have a good point unfortunately our community will not allow pull behind trailers, so we would have to rent a place to let it sit when it’s not in use which is not cost effective. I intend to keep my 2007 Avalanche running until it can no longer be fixed .

I owned two for a total of about 165k miles. The midgate was so underrated. Name another truck that can haul a stack of 40 4x8 sheets of plywood with the tailgate CLOSED in the same footprint of a Toyota Tacoma.

They also make good truck tents, since it’s open to the inside for phone charging and extra storage

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Poor people + cheap platform = big sales on that that platform. This is not a moral choice it is match. Want to do better in brick and mortar, then sell cheaper, or pay employees enough to make the more expensive choice out of morality. People need clothes. People need food. People need consumer goods. And unless they…

No sure how old the writer is here but they must not remember Walmart, sears, and countless other mega shopping stores. 

Amazon is the Walmart of the internet. Sure, its practices are awful but just LOOK AT THOSE PRICES AND THE SHIPPING OMG. That’s how humans are. We take personal comfort over someone else’s every single time, especially if we don’t know them.

That’s a really damn good point. Don’t work for a company that supports Amazon, if you want to seriously protest it.

Xmas is so much better with Amazon. Clickety-click and shopping is done in about an hour. Do it early enough and you can pick slow shipping and earn digital rewards. More time with my family, no fucking crowds and less expensive e-books. Win - win - win.

I know the marketing and writing teams are different, but if you truly truly are shocked that nobody listened, seriously stop giving affiliate links and daily deals for Amazon. It’s like a vegan site pushing ads for hamburger deals because the “departments are different”.

It’s like my mom always said, while telling me not to smoke pot when I was a teenager while she was smoking a joint, “do as I say, not as I do.” I found it obnoxiously hypocritical then, and I do now too!

Maybe your advice about how terrible Amazon is would be taken more seriously if your pages weren’t covered with affiliate links to buy products from Amazon.