If you go to Maui, rent from Kihei Rent a Car (.com)

I learbed about them years ago when I was going there 2 or 3 times a year. they rent used mini vans, Wrnaglers, and Sentras that are dinged, maybe a bit of rust or scratches. Used cars basically.
Why do you want this besides it’s cheaper? Because when you park at a…

If you want to get around the Big Island and see more than a resort, a rental car is the only reasonable way to do it. I would be infuriated if I was a resident, but it’s hard to blame tourists for choosing a legal and economical option.

When you see me rolling up in this, you know what’s about to happen. I’m about to open the door, and saunter out in my baggy track suit wearing house shoes. I’m here to watch the local co-eds play some volleyball while I eat a concession stand corn dog.

Ford The Integrated Tether System, so they can license it to other companies

Missed opportunity for the Ford Active Replaceable Tether System.

“Multiple slots under the rear seats” is probably referencing the under-seat storage bins.

I mean, cool, I guess, but I personally prefer to spend my money on things that aren’t money pits.

This.

Ditto

I’ve always thought that this was the kind of thing you bought and pulled up into the yard next to a fourth-gen wrecked-but-running Chevy 1500 pickup and carefully extract all the original British bits from the Rover and deposit them in a dumpster, while removing all the American bits from the Chevy and reinstall them…

Same. This was a straight to no dice, don’t even read or really look at any of the pictures.

Oooh look how pretty it is! (But it’s a Range Rover, remember?)

Didn’t even pause to read Rob’s words. Straight to No Dice and clicked multiple times. Too much money, even if the used car world has gone crazy. Maybe at half the price, once Reality comes back into focus.

Here we are again. Literally all out of warranty Range Rovers are no dice.

I’m sure it was. This was really just a no-brainer for them. They had the perfect platform to slap a new Edge body on. I get it. To make a single cab truck, would require an entire new ground up design, because they don’t have anything to base it on. And, the R&D, tooling, etc wasn’t worth the predicted ROI.

Maverick ST Maverick ST Maverick ST.

Now, if there was a two-door, full sized bed version, it would have been perfect.

Everything tastes better cooked in bacon grease...

Ford has 1 plant building Transit Connect vans. In the first (many) years of production, the TC was not available in the US. So, it made no sense to build it in the US. Even now, most of these vans are not meant for North America, but for other continents. So, Ford builds them elsewhere. Makes perfect sense.

TLDR: We are still living with what is basically a protectionist knee-jerk reaction from over half a century ago.