Those are body-on-frame. A compact conventional truck was not novel, been around as long as trucks had. A unibody truck was novel.

At least they fixed the looks.

I always associated ‘-banger’ with number of cylinders. As in, “That Accord have a four-banger or six?”

Jetted correctly two strokes don’t kill plugs unless you’re rising something higher strung like a YZ 125, and you’re never on the pipe. I’ve owned multiple two-strokes, I’m not particularly fast yet I’ve never fouled a plug to the point of not running.

I would add that modern 300 2T’s are a game changer. I’ve had and ridden both two and four strokes and like each for different reason as you’ve stated. The 300 has many of the characteristics of a 4 stroke, primarily the tractor like pull from down low, with the benefit of being light and flickable. I owned a Husaberg…

They’re also a shitload of fun, if you remember what that is.

First gear: I learned the hard way about loans.

Technically this shape (a rectangle with semicircles on opposite sides) is known as a discorectangle, obround, or stadium, which is a type of oval.

Going to retrofit it into an Overlandulance?

You take that back

Compared to the ProMaster it's practically a supermodel. 

If working at a dealership taught me anything, it’s that we here at this site are the oddballs that care as much as we do about our cars. Most people dgaf.

Here in Cal-I-Forn-IA its totally, balls to the wall, batshit insane. We bought our house 12 years ago for what felt like an insane, $450,000. It eventually climbed to a “supposed” paper value of $850,000. One of my neighbors casually mentioned his property had gone up 20% in 2 months. I looked mine up. Of course it…

The ordinary salespeople have nothing to do with those strategies. 

And people blame china for taking out a page of ye olde western colonial playbook and using it themselves lol

“ is the CCP going to send in troops to enforce their new colonies?”

1st gear: supply chain bottle necks, labor shortage, logistics bottlenecks, and inflation... this is just the beginning of the economic hell that we face if the government doesn’t stop paying people to stay home right now. It is crucial to the survival of the country that we increase the labor force participation…

Yamaha. Besides motorcycles, they made engines for the Taurus SHO and every obnoxious totally rad synthesizer keyboard in the 1980s. And your TV.

Am I getting old, or is it impossible to keep up with all of Ferrari’s new models. I have no idea what they’re all called and where they fit in the range. I used to be able to (and probably still can) name every model between 1990 and like 2015..... but now? No chance.

Publicity stunt. The show will suddenly reappear with no explanation five years from now.