$8k buys you a Corolla, Honda Fit, etc. with 1/2 the running costs of a fucking pickup truck to cart around 2 little girls.

Seriously. How are people missing that that’s her GMT900 in the background? What a bunch of clueless jabronis.

It’s a GMT900. It’s a $10,000 truck minimum. Might be as new as 5-6 years old.

America’s tire doesn’t do alignment. The rest is somewhat valid.

$8k takes you 2/3 of the way towards a 3 year old, 20,000 mile clean Carfax Corolla. Insurance and fuel savings alone will cover that car payment, much less the fact that it takes $400 tires, not $1,400 tires.

Look at the photo, dingus. Her Silverado is right there behind her. Looks like a GMT900? So somewhere 10 years old or newer?

Click on the link that takes you to the article. You can see her Silverado right behind her.

This won’t introduce a large dent. People HAVE to have the fully loaded crossover, instead of a fully loaded sedan or even just a decently-equipped sedan. Go look at the new Corolla. It starts at under $20,000 and is so much better equipped than in ages past, AND it’s actually fun to drive now and not just a soulless…

Except that people are CHOOSING to buy more expensive vehicles. People are buying profit-laden crossovers, SUVs, and trucks instead of sedans. This is completely self-inflicted. The average new car is over $30,000 and the average used car is about $20,000.

Why wouldn’t I look at length? You specifically replied to Buckus. The discussion is about vehicles “with basically only the hood and front half of the cab able to actually fit in said spot, thereby creating an obstacle course for all vehicles passing by.” Height and width don’t affect a car sticking out of its…

Yeah, that guy’s being fucking obtuse, to try to make a point. He is reeking of /r/iamverysmart.

You know what else is sad? That a modern compact actually protects you in an accident, whereas a 90's midsize practically TRIED its best to kill you and anyone that you hit during a traffic collision.

Wrong, wrong wrong wrong wrongggggggggg.

The Mazda3, Civic, and Corolla are definitely still true “compact” vehicles, what are you smoking? And can I get in on it?

Every one of those “all terrain” shots are something that I could have accomplished in a stock Corolla, much less this TRD RAV4. So if anything, the people with the Tacoma are fucking idiots, just to go crawl around something that is way way way under the capability of the truck.

I grew up in a place with a lot of Catholic people. Many people when they reached high school age, became Episcopal for precisely this reason, among others. Such as women can hold positions in the church instead of just being baby carriers, the Episcopal church doesn’t molest children, etc.

No one thinks someone rolling around in a 4Runner is broke. Your running costs each year are more than it cost me to buy my last beater, which lasted for 8 years. I’m not driving past people in a 4Runner with $7,000 or more of off-roading/overlanding modifications which cause them to get 12mpg and say, “Wow, what a…

I think that if they redesign the 4Runner, then they would have to give up a lot of what exists on the truck, due to crash tests, fuel economy, etc. Between CAFE, electrification pushes, etc. it’s going to be a lot harder to get away with a clean-sheet design on a body-on-frame rig.

This is 100% the case that enthusiasts are fickle. You can think what you want, but stark statistics/analytics backs it up. Enthusiasts are anal, and impossible to please. Look at the comments section here. Anything an automaker does, some guys who masturbates to fantasies of what he would do if given the reins at…

Probably because enthusiasts have proved time and time again, that if they build it, we will NOT come. If you hedge your bets as an auto manufacturer on people willing to pay new car money and get the manual transmission, you’ll get burned. The same car, but with a manual transmission and more powerful engine is a 3rd…