That is a lovely story. Now compare service intervals of a Lightening and a ICE F150 rather than a Ford to a Tesla. Almost all “Scheduled Maintenance” for a lightning are inspections. Which involve no sellable consumables and could likely be executed by the owner in a few minutes.

I am pretty sure. you entirely missed my point.

I use mine and reload it regularly.  It is legitimately a camp kit.  But if there was any real trouble, it would be incredibly useful.

It’s funny...”Go bag” screams prepper paranoia to me...Yet, if I look in my garage, I have a “camp kit” that’s full of everything I need keep the family safe, housed and fed wherever we happen to be for at least a week.  It can be in the back of the truck in about five minutes.

I read an article recently about a dealers convention from an attendee. None of this is accidental.  Dealers are typically very right of center and are vehemently opposed to EV sales from a political standpoint.  They also fear the inevitable reduction in service visits (no oil to change or fluids to flush).   They…

Yeah...The clowns lining London streets leaning on their Lambos in the evening...

ATM? Why would that even cross your mind in this scenario? And no one is stopping anybody from getting an an account at a bank with a national presence. These are easily solvable problems.

All supercars. For the most part they are the domain of insecure, attention seeking asshats.

Civil asset forfeiture can happen pretty much anywhere outside of your home. If you are carrying money you are at risk. Airports are popular places for the police to steal from you, but they can do it if you have money in your car.

Civil asset forfeiture is insane and should not be legal. However, unless you live under a rock, you already know the police are doing this. You can get cash at your destination via the banking system. It makes no sense to provide these thieves the opportunity to enjoy your money.  If for some very specific reason…

Can Dodge (yes Dodge) stop naming their trucks after body parts? There is no way I’ll ever drive anything called a Ram, a Ramcharger or a Bighorn…

That’s a fair question and there is limited hiding space in a crew cab vs an extra cab. You set your priorities based on use case accordingly.

My takedown was more based on the editorial and staffing direction of this site and the sort of thoughtless contrarianism that seems to be spilling all over the stovetop.

Nothing, nothing, nothing is an acceptable alternative to a single cab. If your truck using goal is the least amount of flexibility possible with the lowest amount of leg room, a single cab stands alone. There’s a reason that a single cab resides at the top of every retro-contrarians nonsensical wish list!! Everyone…

I use an RTT on most trips, but it is suspended on cross bars over my truck bed. The COG is not too bad.

I have a few tents. One is an RTT. You are right, one is not needed. I suspend mine from the garage ceiling when not in use. But…if I know I am going to rocky terrain or uneven territory, the RTT is the choice. I can level the truck where I can’t level a tent. And if I know I’m going to be moving from site to…

Way to jump on one of the exceptions.

To me it’s not about that. It’s clear these clowns haven’t done any builds of their own, or at least are very new to it. If you’ve built something you know how many painful hours it takes and how much money it costs. I hate bro trucks, but I would never ever stand in front of somebody’s pride and joy and mock it. …

This is bullshit.

Check some Rivian videos. Shorter wheelbase, reasonable ground clearance and torque vectoring based on four motors operating independently on each wheel. It’s heavy but its traction management offsets quite a bit of that.