Consider this: When designing this truck, the engineers were probably constrained into using the stock, unmodified frame of the mass production truck, or a slight variation thereof.

This is one of the many reasons why I love Jalopnik: Useful, informative comments from the community that explain things that the writer didn’t mention.

Thanks Patrick! Now we know - Andrew is a master at manipulation of the truth.

I wonder if this is more a result of boomers dying off or just going online?

To be fair, I didn’t hit $12k in repairs during my first year of ownership.

Yeah, but twin gatling guns (presumably M134 miniguns) behind the headlights is even less believable than the invisible V12 Vanquish.

Aftermarket mods do cause actual legal issues when they don’t meet basic vehicle safety requirements that apply to every vehicle in a given jurisdiction, like bumper height, headlight height, full coverage fenders, no loose parts, etc.

I’ll pile on among the others correcting that to ‘giubo’ (pronounced ‘jiu-bo’), not ‘guibo’, as the alternate name for flex disc couplings.

There’s even a ready made song for three ad campaign already:

“a leaky gas line totaled it.”

Is that you John Wayne? Is this me?

Just give up on the ‘chunky station wagon’ misnomer already. Nobody agrees with you.

Corrected:

Not that I dispute your numbers, but where do those come from? I'm genuinely interested if they are in fact verifiable.

Unfortunately, supporting standard weight crash sleds also will tend to favor larger vehicles that can pass the test, increasing average vehicle size and weight as a whole - in part defeating the purpose of increasing vehicle crash resistance.

The front fairing, windscreen, and headlight looks like it’s a copy of a first generation Ducati Multistrada, or maybe a Moto Guzzi V11 Le Mans.

Depends knows their target market all too well: Harley Davidson riders. I can’t say I’ve ever seen an ad for them before this article.

To be fair I probably have only about $10000-ish in parts, and all but the transfer case (a remanufactured one) was new OEM or BMW.

Hmmm, I didn’t think of that. Good point. It’s definitely a problem on my BMW wagon.