Via Digg? What year is this??

Uhhh, it’s a massive multistory open air meeting room/conference area. Those are massive glass panes. It’s not like it’s tacked on the side of the building like a banner. They’re integral to the structure of the building.

You don’t even need to track it much so long as you have space to keep it. You don’t even need a truck or trailer. U haul is not terribly expensive.

I built my Jetta as a multi purpose car, it’s SCCA, 24 Hours of Lemons legal. It’s going to last me forever unless I stuff it hard. Total all in cost ready to race is 5k…

Well profitable is relative, the moon could crash into France and they’d still be producing F 150s Stateside.

You’d also be a pancake.

10 trucks is a smaller order than I would have thought for custom paint, do they not offer the black you’re after even in that situation?

If that’s the case the color may simply be impossible to source via normal vendors.

Those panels will never line up right again if you’re ever in a small front end collision.

You don’t get it. You don’t understand the cost that goes into this. It’s not Porsche, they’re not going to give you a specialty $10,000 paint option for something with an extremely low take rate from a new supplier.

Do you understand the time involved in PPAP’ing a color change? You don’t just load new paint in the…

8' is average, go back in history and get me a 9'+ bed like in the 60's and earlier.

I’m a very value focused truck shopper. I don’t need the interior space and I don’t live/work in the truck on a daily basis. To save a few thousand dollars and get a long bed I’d go single cab in a heart beat.

Maybe it’s just the massive fender gaps that get me on the newer trucks. On the older versions you linked they look great.

I’ve seen them on the road, I’m near Detroit, the base trucks look much better than in that photo. They’re far more imposing.

The cab is identical, the hood and grill are different.

Can someone with a design background explain to me why they went with squared off wheel arches? I don’t get it, it’s a round wheel, have it match that contour like the Ford. To me it looks like they go the scaling all wrong.

They did the math, realized the costs to source and vette a new supplier for the color are not economically viable.

Sorry, economics rule the roost.

I always here guys talk about “Some track duty” What that turns into “I tracked it once and tires are expensive.”

Spend your money where you spend your time. I’ve had expensive track focused cars, I converted them back to stock-ish sold them and built a purpose built race car. I’m having more fun, I don’t worry about a…

The difference is a over to road semi/mid level commercial vehicles (MaxxForce 9/10 powered or similar) is deigned to run at 80%+ load all day every day for 500,000+ miles without issue. These can tow/haul impressive weights but they can’t deal with that kind of daily abuse.

The 450's when used for goose neck auto…

Look at the current price structure. You’ll be able to get a deal for less than MSRP on a base car. A Grand Sport is too unique/desirable it will sell at MSRP forever.

If you get charged $3,000 for an after sale service you are of limited mental capacity.

Dealers, with stock on hand have saved me over 50k over the years compared to buying/ordering at MSRP.

I don’t love dealers by any means but they’re not Cthulhu.

Magneride is a real advantage. All those other attributes are only things you’d see on a stopwatch, not in the real world. The base car is at least 100 lbs lighter.

You want a car for the driving experience, not chasing 1/10ths on every lap.