People hate the ridgeline because it’s actually focused on what truck owners really do, which is drive on roads to the office and only occasionally haul bags of mulch or groceries. The ridgeline is the truck equivalent of passing full-suspension bikes on a 10 year old hardtail.

Thank god someone is finally making a truck that can handle what trucks do 99% of the time, which is drive around off road. Way too much focus these days on the rare moments when a truck is commuting to work. /S>

One of the things that’s most telling about Verstappen is that when he was winning, his team was content to just soak up his bullshit and his rants and bullying. And now that he’s not, they seem to have ZERO patience for him. I think he legitimately forgot that what goes up can also come down.

We need to strike the word “accident” from our legal system. It’s not an accident, it’s negligent operation. Accident sounds like “ooops, my bad” when what really happened is, you were operating a 2-3 ton vehicle and were not taking that action seriously. You hit someone not because they came out of nowhere but…

at least they aren’t bringing this lil’ nightmare back:

can you imagine riding on one of these things? No. No you cannot.

If performance were all that matters, no one would buy cruisers and everyone would ride high performance race replicas- after all, they perform infinitely better than a cruiser.

Passing over something fun because you’re worried about what you’re friends will think is the definition of doing it wrong.

I’ve loved the idea of convertible pickups since I first saw the original convertible Dodge Dakota and thought... Holy crap, it’s a convertible that takes none of the practicality away from the vehicle.

Right, but if you’re looking at this you aren’t looking at a GS or a dirt bike.

Everyone I’ve ever talked to about one of these things has said basically the same thing- they’re weird but a blast to ride. I love that they exist and I especially love how they seem to infuriate purists.

It’s exactly what Musk wanted it to be. It’s a rolling troll. it exists only to draw attention, and it’s clear no one taught Musk that there’s a difference between good attention and bad attention because “either way, they’re talking about me.”

In the right location (which is what a car like this is all about) that color is gorgeous. Put this thing in the driveway of your immaculately restored Palm Springs midcentury modern vacation house and it’s gonna shine.

The wheels and the grill feel like overkill, like at the last minute someone in corporate panicked and demanded “THIS IS A CADILLAC IT NEEDS CHROME DAMNIT” and the designers caved. But otherwise this is a lovely car. The back end is just gorgeous- wish the front end had that level of confidence in simplicity. The…

A lot of folks in the beautiful driftless area in north west wisconsin learned how much the GOP cared about them when the frack sand mines started. The mines were proposed- big open air mines for high-silicate content sand. The local farmers were like “Nope, no good.” And got their towns and counties to kill the…

Having lived in Madison, WI for decades, I can only guess that those parking ticket numbers come from students at UW (which would also explain why so many of them are unpaid) because otherwise, I’m not even sure how you get a parking ticket in this town.

The folks who want to kill these regulations? They don’t live in the city or the suburbs. They live where they’ll never have to breathe the exhaust fumes they’re so happy to inflict on the rest of us. They’d rather sacrifice your air so they can pretend that the last 50 years of automotive development didn’t…

If you didn’t grow up in the 60s and 70s- you know, the automotive glory days before they done stolled the power with them damned environmental bullshits- you might not realize how much better... EVERYTHING is now.

You know what? Good for her.

*le sigh*