Ohh that’s quite the high horse you have there. The ram 2500 sitting in my driveway tells a different story. Carpets don’t quite fit...panel gaps are almost unbelievably bad. It has only been in the shop once for a new computer...but hey, it was about time at 9000 miles right? Don’t get me wrong, I like it, but the…

This. I had to special order my tradesman with the work grade vinyl, bench seat, and manual transmission. The last year of the manual and one of the only 18 tradesmans with the ram boxes. Can’t even order them that way anymore. 

I should have taken a picture. I bought an 18 ram 2500 and backed it up to my dad’s 68 C-10 chevy to transfer some stuff I pulled out of the backyard that he was going to take to the dump. It was comical. The tailgate height difference was more than a foot.

No FCA products at all.  Collusion.

From the side, it looks like an oddly executed cab, maybe for more interior space....then this picture!

“...to be quite circular looking.” Toyota, Chevy, and Jeep: Would you like to know more about or lord and savior, the square hole for the round peg?

Again, I’m old, but if it isn’t a bronco/blazer/jeep, 2 door body on frame short wheel base truck with rear seats, it is hard for me to consider it a real SUV. Personal opinion of course.

That is very accurate.  

A county maintained dirt road is what I expect is meant by off road anymore. My version of off road is likely going to need skid plates, real ground clearance, and careful choosing of lines to get where you are going. It also makes a difference where you live and what types of trails are around. Around here, and most…

I must be getting old.  Nothing about that from any angle indicates to me that it can go off road.  Disclaimer:  My version of off road does not involve some place you could drive a normal car.  Graded gravel road is still “road”.

The mentality. People drive like they comment on youtube. They are anonymous and invincible. They are more important than anyone else and whatever they do is fine but if you do it, fuck you!

F.E.A.R.  Alma...that little evil demon child.  Playing that game in the dark with the surround on...you knew it was coming.  You always knew the jump scene was coming...and it got you anyway.

Well...let’s be fair.  The shirtless guys are more likely to be in walmart vs target.  Totally correct on all the other stuff though.  And heaven forbid they ever go to a country where nudity shaming isn’t a thing!!

I can’t even read the article...that shirt, jacket and tie...it is too...everything.  There is nothing else while it is on the screen.

True, and you are right. But after 10 years of neglect, I would have expected paint fading, peeling...not a bit of that. Even the dash isn’t cracked after being subjected to the Hawaiian sun for years.  Good mechanical condition is relative as well. It is burning oil, but that is hardly unexpected given the brutal…

His wife takes care of the house. That’s woman’s work if you ask him. He is from texas...and it is not possible to put enough contempt in that word while typing to truly express my feelings on the state and people I have met from there.

Oh no, the condition assessment is my own. My cars actually live in the garage (as opposed to using it as a living room like most people do here), get washed regularly, have all their routine maintenance done. I’m a fair judge and I’m shocked that his truck still runs given how it has lived its life. He drives it well…

Just do what my co-worker does and never wash it.  2008 F-150.  Basest of the base models.  120k miles and if half of what he has told me is true, never washed, maybe 6 oil changes...never garaged.  It is in shockingly good condition considering.

The easiest way to avoid the first year issue is buy an FCA product. First year, third year, seventeenth year...the panel gaps and build quality remain just as awful throughout the entire life cycle.

My 08 M3 had an ///M button. The car saved whatever settings you used last and that is how it started.  It had roughly a billion different options for everything but the ///M button set everything to “go fast now” mode. I know cars have memory seats and such but maybe not make it an M button on the steering wheel of a…