Yup. High mile 6.0 is a big nope for me at any price. I’ve spend enough years working on them to know I never want to touch another.

Why not? People do that with pickups today, all the time. Tail-lights are outboard of the hatch to allow it.

Last month, one of the Empire Builder trains took 5 days to make it to Portland from Chicago...

Talgo trainsets can be ordered variable gauge. No stopping required. The changeover is done while rolling.

Ford never made a factory 4x4. QuadVan made a TTB “factory-certified” 4x4 option until 2005, but being a Dana 50, wasn’t cut out for heavier builds and they went solid-axle when Ford made the 2005 SuperDuty axles.

I wonder if it really was tuned to 444 HP, or if something got lost in translation when they saw the Navistar engine code for this is T444E...

The camera side of her was illuminated. Those lights could made it harder for the drivers on the other side to see her.

Even if you live in Burns there’s plenty of 240-volt pedestals around where you could charge overnight. And that’s still not where the majority of tourism is.

Let’s face it… if it’s really long distances between places to camp… people aren’t camping much there anyways.

But for a compliance-EV like the Focus, you could just charge overnight using any of the building’s exterior outlets. Hotels even usually have them the landscaping for holiday lights. You don’t need a “charging-station” for something like a Focus or a Leaf. 

Interesting. Weird there’s so little info about it floating around.

I don’t think they are though. I don’t think they’ve made a single finished prototype yet? Unless incompletely missed it somehow.

That shifter is absolute garbage. Especially if you drive other rigs with a regular column shifter. My moms GLK has it, and the first week, hers rolled away at Costco. She instinctively slapped the “shifter” up into park, like she’s done for decades in our Econoline vans. Except the MB shifter up is reverse, and the…

I don’t think Amtrak has replaced the stolen ones yet.

That’s just a side-load dumpster on a standard front-load truck. They sometimes do this as a retrofit, but lower-density service areas will use them just to maintain a smaller fleet. A front-loader can use this side-load dumpster attachment, but you can’t pick a 6-yard commercial dumpster using a side-load truck.

Torso girth matters more than height, as far as seating needs go. Big dude’s hip joints are pushed forward by their back fat.

You’re comparing vehicles with completely different design lives.

Transit EV starts shipping soon. Rumor is Ford will offer the PowerBoost hybrid later, once the demand for the current gas motors and the EV are met (2022 Transit order bank has already closed because they sold all the allocations already, even though they haven’t even delivered all the 2021's committed).

Yup! That’s correct! It’s better to tow your Tesla with your Raptor, then drive the Tesla vs driving the Raptor solo. At least with the 6.2L. I imagine that might not hold true for the EcoBoost. 

Engineering Explained and The Straight Pipes covered regen charging!