Well, just in case the “want to know” side wins out, it’s a fairly straightforward kit from Journeys Offroad. They specialize in vans, so they sell kits for the Odyssey, Pacifica, Sienna and others. I thought it was a 3" lift, but it’s actually 2.75". The kit is now $575. I think they paid around $1200 to install and…

But it does make a nice noise...

They are big... The Pacifica doesn’t feel too bad. Friends have one that I like a lot. They lifted it with a three-inch lift kit and have AT tires on it. And a roof-tent. It’s amazing. It isn’t this one, but it looks just like it.

My only problem with minivans is they are so gd expensive. But I guess so is everything.

None of the vehicles mentioned are actually three-row SUVs. They are two-row SUVs with a “third-row” tacked on to sell it as a three-row. Depending on your choice, the third row will be completely unusable for anyone other than a kid under five or take up the entirety of your storage space. Or, both. There are really…

Crack pipe. 

Well, yes. Lol. As usual, my off the cuff comments fail to include a lot of relevant information. The grandfathered status itself runs with the land and does not depend on ownership as long as all you are doing is running in the exact same footprint and use. You’re correct. But where I live that prior non-conforming…

Absolutely. It seems like across the board, ICE, EV, PHEV, whatever else, US dealers are pushing high-dollar/high-trim versions of the car they sell and refusing to carry or design mid-tier cars. I also don’t believe the crash standard nonsense. 

They’ll just save the hassle with the doors coming off and take them off themselves, unless the passengers all pitch in an extra $25.99 to buy a “door bolt” package.

I wish Toyota was weird and brave enough to make a cheap EV Corolla wagon or something. Or an EV Trueno or something insane.

So that’s the common issue I deal with in Hudson Valley area of NY. There are a lot of businesses that are considered prior non-conforming uses but they have been grandfathered in despite zoning changes that would ban the business operating now. Problem is, if the building is sold that grandfathered status is almost…

There’s a lot of problems on the ID4 receiving updates. It was promised that the vehicle could receive OTA updates in 2021-2022, but never arrived. Updates to the vehicle required dealership appointments that regularly took over a week to perform and then were buggy/glitchy requiring another extended dealership…

I completely agree about the EV obsession over range and size needs to stop so prices could come down. For a while after my dad passed I kept his Chevy Spark EV. The thing had a maximum range of 80 miles, and in the winter it was more like 60. But I was able to do 90% of my driving with it because as everyone with…

I’m drag ignorant, but does prepping a drag strip really cost this much? It doesn’t look like there are any buildings on the property at all. A small pond is it. It’s in the middle of ass nowhere Virginia. Looks like you could buy 50-150 acres for $60 - 250k out there. So... why is this property worth $3.3 million…

It was significant news in 2022, and Toyoda was repeatedly forced to comment on it. Take whatever you want from it, but Greenpeace, Sierra Club, and other very high profile environmental activist groups placed Toyota at the bottom of their recommend vehicle lists for their failure to go all in on EVs.

Battery prices haven’t exactly plummeted.... in 2019 packs cost an average of $160 kWh and in 2023 it was $139. That’s not even a 15 percent drop. Maybe by 2030 it will be sub $100 kWh, but that’s pretty far away in the big picture if we have to wait until then for “affordable” EVs. 

Feel like Toyota got a lot of hate for their failure to jump straight into EVs. But it always struck me as really the only sensible approach. Maximize hybrid efficiency while investing in PHEV; maximize PHEV while investing in EV (and watch what everyone else is doing); have a reliable, fast-charging, long-lasting EV…

I don’t really think that’s true. Real world driving of the 5.7 Tundra you’ll never, ever get whatever ludicrous mileage is advertised. Of the two people I know, in mixed urban/suburban/highway driving, its more like 14mpg. So, that’s definitely not the same as a Ridgeline. Maybe the new hybrid Tundras are better, but…

Lol

I love when truck bros talk about how the Honda Ridgeline isn’t a real truck when it’s exactly the amount of truck just about 90% of truck owners actually “need.” And in reality the bed is only 3 inches shorter than the 5'7" bed of most crewcab 1500s or the 5'6 bed of crewcab F-150s.