Except the other parts of the bell bottom jeans were usually skinny jeans.

It’s called an SUV.

Bellbottom pants were a fad that everyone is glad is over. These uselessly short beds are the same thing. Most of the small-bed trucks don’t last very long because at the end of the day, they can’t do truck stuff.

Well you just had to go and bring up bell bottoms. Just remember that with bell bottoms you can leave your shoes/boots on whenever you need to take your pants on or off, so very much another increase in utility.

Agreed. I recently bought a “farm truck (96 2500 ext cab w/8ft bed)“ and the ease with which I can load items from Costco/Home Depot/Tractor supply in that 8 foot bed makes those places so much easier to deal with. A 6.5 foot bed is the absolute minimum I would ever think to own as a truck, otherwise I have as much…

Cybernuts.

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That bed gives the H2T a run for the “lack of utility” title

Screens and car manufacturers is way too much...the mere idea of them building cars that people want to own in 5 years seems to be ancient history. Once you start tieing screens into the gauges, you now date a fundamental operating point of the car, and I’m sure that the gauges going obsolete and glitchy will take a…

On the steering wheel, in buttons, as they should be.

In this case he’s the rational adult in the room and people advocating for more screens look like toddlers screaming for their favorite toy.

Precisely. One of the reasons I love driving is that it forces my brain to break the social media addiction cycle of constantly checking everything, even if only for a few minutes or hours.

Now you’re speaking my language! I really dislike the “screens everywhere” trend. Screens are bright, distracting and more difficult to use than buttons and knobs. If I must have a screen in a car, I at least want to be able to turn it off without impacting the car’s basic functionality. And don’t get me started on…

NO! I MUST have my screens to stay *connected* to all my friends and followers with InstaTwitFaceTokGur at all times! If not, I’ll be forced to be alone with my own thoughts and, God forbid, interact with the people in the vehicle with me... *yeesh* No way, unt-uh!

He’s only yelling at the Cloud because that’s where he stored all his important photos, and now they’re not there anymore.

the partnered content it is going to shove into its massive 48-inch screen

Traditional gauges do need to come back. Sure a screen can give you more information, but there’s a reason that the most desired watches aren’t digital. There’s craftsmanship that goes into gauges that’s so beautiful and can’t be replicated by some screen laid out by a graphic designer. Plus a car interior with no…

We’re now starting to see digital instrument clusters that do away with the familiar dial setup. They don’t even pretend to be gauges. They are digital readouts of the information you need to see. Or they half-heartedly display a speed or RPM with a gauge, but really, that’s secondary to the big numbers in the center…

So true!  There are screens everywhere already, and frankly I’m pretty tired of them.  Especially when they replace something like speedometer and tach.  Everytime I sit in a new car with just one flat screen for the gauges it just looks cheap and lazy.  Plus, screens in cars have lousy blacks, making everything look…

You can plough with a Miata.