The idea with skip shift is that it forces you to be fuel efficient unless you really whacked the throttle or shifted high. It wasn’t just RPM based. To say it simply, if you wanted to baby it on the road, you could meet the emissions/mileage standards they rate it at. In the Audi, the ‘low emissions’ shift modes are…

$400 million deal for 3 year old tablets that everyone knows are vastly inferior. Microsoft is shooting itself in both feet. My mind is blown.

I’m aware of the difference. I just like how it’s a change from hearing about how modern Astons are classified mostly as portly cruisers.

You mean Doug?

This is unique, in that it is an Aston Martin article talking about how more lbs have been added, but in a positive light.

If that is true, that’s insane. Surface 1 was practically unusable junk. If they aren’t using at least SP3's, why didn’t he stomp repeatedly on the screen with his boot after chucking that thing?!

That last sentence is very true! Many comments have mentioned picking these trucks up for anywhere between 10-20k off sticker. While that is still a nutso price to me for what I envision a truck being used for, it certainly puts things in a different light.

Myself, I’ll have to be content fixing clunker trucks- I just see them more as a tool, and with that mindset, I don’t think I’ll ever be looking at one on a dealer lot. Side note- I truly don’t understand the overlap between the 150 and the 250 these days. It’s getting into BMW naming convention confusion levels.

Dumping that much into a truck takes away from racecar money! Plus I can’t ever buy the fucking thing used for under 10k unless it has half a million miles. Hooray for rubber banding the used truck market up too.

Yes. Currently trying to buy a decent used truck for less than the cost of a Tier 1 mail order bride. Latent anger spilled over into this post. Fucking fuck fuck.

I want to spend my money on a truck that isn’t 30 years old, for once. I look at trucks on craigslist and in dealerships. I get angry at price inflation and tack on doodads on what I consider to be a basic tool. I go home to relax. I come to Jalopnik. Jalopnik has article on nearly $70k truck. I get angry again. I…

I’m in the market for a new stripper model/used truck that isn’t 30 years old, for once. I can’t justify most of the prices on craigslist, let alone what I see on dealership window stickers. I just don’t understand how low end options like base F150's/Rangers pretty much evaporated, and now we’re at C7 Z06 prices for…

For the middle class, that IS pretty much a decent mortgage. 1k a month is nuts if you make 50-70k a year and also have a mortgage.

Thank you for posting a use case I can understand

I would be more inclined to agree with you if I armor-alled the underside of my Chevy and brought it to shows instead of throwing dead animals/drywall/paving stones in the back with the general aiming goal of “don’t hit the rear window”

I get angry when looking at craigslist for a decent 4x4 these days. Transaction price, new and used, has to have doubled in a decade.

You would be shocked. My friend nearly put himself out of his own home getting a new Dodge with insane payments. Because his father got one and then he wanted one. Just cannot fathom the mindset.

Very true. I still want my single cab long bed bench seat stick shift stripper truck back. :(

No, I understand they sell. I just can’t fathom a mindset that justifies spending C7 Z06 money on an F150 that you chuck stones and dirt in the back of. I just have a different view of the purpose of the vehicle and I will never understand plunking down that kind of cash for it. Transaction price on these has to have…

For what I use my pickups for, I can’t imagine spending close to C6 Z06 money and then chucking shit in the back of it. To each their own, but I don’t think I’ll ever understand this one.