I also just realized I erred and should have gone with the older Fords that I forgot existed in crew cab form

I believe the proper answer is the late 80s-early 90s Ford crew cab F350. You can do everything you want to other than park it.

Very true, but I’d rather shampoo and vacuum rather than jump onto a hot leather seat in the middle of summer. But to each their own.

Guess I should’ve added a subnote that I fucking hate leather seats, especially in a vehicle destined for a life of grease and literal horseshit.

IIRC the only truck pushing $100k is a fully loaded Platinum/King Ranch F-450. Your average luxotruck driver isn’t going for that, they’re just doing super loaded 150/250 level in the $85k range and probably cross-shopping an Escalade, but there’s added cargo height on the truck.

Anyone know where the 64 hp regulation comes from? Seems kinda arbitrary, considering even in metric, 50 kw is like 67 hp...

The old Arctic Cat T-660s were actually just turbo Suzuki kei-car motors in a snowmobile chassis.

As much as I don’t like the eta, this one is very very clean and I’d boost it for that price. (Plus 535i’s are starting to skyrocket in price)

I wonder if you could add some base to your oil or some bouillon to your dredge or something to mimic this without having to source the schmaltz.

Did this in college, running the coffee through the coffee maker. It just makes really bitter coffee. Will wake you the hell up though.

Shows how long its been since I was up there last.

Just use beer. You can even cut out half the steps and just use boxed pancake mix, the required amount of egg, and beer until the consistency is right.

And just hop on I-75 (when the construction is finished) and head north, to giggle as you pass exit 69 for Big Beaver Rd.

If you want a super in-depth analysis, check out Maurice Olley’s Chassis Design: Principles and analysis.

I mean you can do up to 5A charging with a USB C port, so lets just make a plug that’s a huge array of those to charge with.

I want to know who decided that 180 hp is the sweet spot for these small SUVs, because it isn’t. Every, and I mean EVERY small cross over sits at exactly 180 hp in base or mid trim levels, and they’re all equally as lethargic. Most of them don’t even offer an upgraded power plant, or if they do it is only reserved for…

The current Sonic is sold around the world as the Aveo (Exception: Australia has the Holden Barina). The Spark is smaller.

I look forward to never hearing about these again.

I drove an Avenger R/T once as a rental. It was both comically bad and comically awesome. Everything was terrible, but if you hit the gas (300 hp Pentastar V6) you had no idea where the front end was going to wind up.

No, the Spark is smaller, and having been built post-bankruptcy, significantly better.