The Ram 1500 would like a word.

A note about Ford and a commentary about people in the comments section:
Ford will be debuting the Maverick small pickup for the 2022 model year. About half of the comments section swears they want a small pickup with a puny engine. Soon comes their chance to put their money where their keyboard is.

That’s a shockingly stupid take, but you must know that already since you posted it through what is clearly a burner account with 6 whole posts ever.

I was just thinking of writing a comment about how Musk fans and Trump fans seem cut from the same weird cloth. Same cult of personality, anything is excusable, facts don’t matter approach. Just centered around rather different things, but disconnected from reality in similar ways.

Bill Clinton didn’t campaign on “draining the swamp”.

“bro if you don’t want to be inconvenienced by an unexpected total system reboot, then just go buy a legacy car.”

Motherfucker, PLEASE. The book isn’t anti-autonomous cars at all. I fucking WISH writing anti-Tesla articles made one tiny bit of difference on book sales. It doesn’t. And I’m not anti-Tesla. But if this is your reaction to this story, perhaps you should seek out your clergyperson or a trusted relative. Maybe a…

I’m a happy Tesla owner and my car hasn’t had any issues in 10k miles of ownership. However. If this happens to me, any “brand loyalty” goes out the window. If you wanna make your car dependent on a single screen for basically every function including the speedometer, you better fucking make sure that screen works.

At this point completely drawn in, I grabbed the cross-stitched email from my valet’s hand (one of his duties is to cross-stitch the day’s email) and delivered him a hard ‘thank-you’ slap across his face.

I don’t understand the Tacoma fanaticism. I drove a brand new Limited 6MT and could not get myself to be willing to subject myself to the punishment of driving it on a daily basis, let alone actually enjoy it. The platform is absolutely ancient. They added a tilt/telescoping wheel for 202o, presumably to address the…

I’m guessing that a lot of those are in smaller towns where they’re combined with GMC and Chevy dealerships, and maybe 2% of the vehicles on the lot are Cadillacs.

I’m glad I’m not the only one that things the Taco/4Runner drivetrain is garbage. I had one as a rental in Colorado a couple years ago. It was okay, but a brand new vehicle should not feel slow compared to my 15 year-old daily-driver SUV.  I know elevation is a killer, but man, that thing was slow.

2021 Tacoma $38,950

the really interesting part is the turnaround. at some point Toyota went all in on the Tundra because the medium and small pickup market was dead as a doornail. The New Colorado has been maxxing capacity in Wentzville for a while now and the Taco, which was mostly a concession for those not able to afford the Tundra…

Smaller towns still have them, a legacy of when the Big 3 were the only game in town.

I used to work for a beverage company where I would regularly hire drivers without experience, train them for their CDLs, and pay them $45K + strong benefits. We’d always have a few leave after getting the CDL so they could work for themselves. Or, when fracking was in full swing, they’d go make $100k+ moving water…

I have a couple of friends who ride share and the main reason they do it is because of the flexibility of work hours and they get to “work for themselves”. I always tell them if this is what they plan on doing quit being lazy and get your CDL already.

I hope this doesn’t come off as condescending, because I really do want to understand. Why continue to do this?

This would have been much more informative. A full P&L would tell the real story, and even a cash flow statement would be better.

I’m a bit confused. Wouldn’t you want to write: