It is actually a Limited model and came fully loaded with all the available options. However, I bought it after the new model year came out so it was orphaned and I was able to negotiate a substantial discount from the dealer (it was the end of their sales month and fiscal quarter, so they were highly motivated to…

I did race my WRX, over the first 3 years of ownership I averaged 26mpg (including autox and all forms of driving over nearly 50k miles). After deciding that I could do without a 4 door sedan and realizing that tracking the WRX would be more trouble than it was worth I traded it in for a BRZ, which is cheaper to run…

I would love a rational debate, you did not provide one.

I think we are in agreement then. My issue is solely with people who use the extra big trucks as cars. The header image was of a truck in town on a paved road without a trailer. The videos show a much more rural setting with a clear agrarian vibe. My only rebuke was that you claimed to not remember seeing an F450 used…

We were talking about Canada (Alberta is in Canada), you made the claim that I do not know what I’m talking about (which was the usage of trucks for commercial purposes citing a specific example from Canada). Where you are from has no bearing on the topic.

The F450 has an empty curb weight of over 8,000lb. It cannot brake or turn as well as a car (because physics). The speed limits are the same for the truck, which often have braking distances nearly double that of a car. If I stop for a yellow light and the lady behind me is in a giant truck, she will hit me (I always…

I bet that guy trailered that terrible car with an unnecessarily big pickup.

You seem to be validating my position for me, thanks.

I live in the DFW Metroplex (Dallas, TX). People used to use pickups for work, but then Regan became President. I spend most of my time in the suburbs and the city, and there are trucks everywhere. The old ones pull lawn equipment and building supplies. The new ones go to soccer practice and Starbucks.

Everyone knows that the WRX’s will all blow their own headgaskets soon enough. You don’t have to regulate them off the road, just wait for them to self-destruct.

Smugly superior.

Down here, nearly all that is done with 4 wheelers. My main issues was with trucking the horses to a job, but I have the same problem with people who trailer street cars to the track (track cars should be trailered, just like racehorses). 

We could just stop subsidizing them. Repeal the mortgage interest tax breaks, raise the gas tax for the first time in 30 years (I’d do like $3/gal so we could fix the roads and bridges), quit giving tax breaks for ‘work’ vehicles as well as the ‘commercial’ vehicle exemptions for things like emissions, fuel economy,…

Don’t get me started on the shitshow that is the Tar Sands. Leave that shit in the ground (we wouldn’t need it if it weren’t for all your stupid trucks).

Well, in my defense, I was drunk (for the Presidential ‘Debate’).

You’d be surprised just how functional they are, I’ve also traded it in for a BRZ.

Fine, but you shouldn’t be allowed to drive in the “no trucks left lanes”, you should be required to have a commercial license, and your luxury purchase should be heavily taxed to offset the added societal cost of your cod piece truck.

That would be true if it didn’t affect me, but it does every time the bed of a truck blocks a sidewalk, takes up multiple parking spaces, drives up gas prices, or makes driving on public roads less safe. You have to justify your poor life decisions because you understand the logical arguments against them.

Definitely a work truck.

I lived in Decatur, TX (where all the top bulls for those rodeos come from) between cow pastures. We had a week where people rode their horses to work/school. I’ve seen horse trailers and the pickups that tow them. The vast majority of professionals use older trucks. The hobbyists buy the newest and biggest trucks and…