I don’t think so. Excursion doors are LONGER than the crew-cab doors, and without the wheel cutout.

Definitely not. I thought that was strange to include as well. I suppose it could reduce aerosols being recirculated, but so does a regular HEPA filter.

Another slide show?!?!?

“Struggling to stand out?”. The model Y is probably the only direct competitor to this at the moment. The European SUVs (I’m including Volvo because of roots and target buyers) still feel like something to placate their loyalists, not something to attract new buyers to the brand. Don’t forget that Ford already had an…

495,000 on my 2000 Econoline dually van (E450 running gear all around) with the V10. Bought it from Enterprise with 105,000 miles. It was a plain white van when I bought it, got dualliefied a year after I bought it (after chewing through too many rear tires). Then got it’s extreme makeover around 250k when I realized…

Yeah, I would assume few riders are even capable or going backwards with their feet off the ground, so backwards turning pedals shouldn’t be an issues, as long as your foot doesn’t get crushed by the crank.

Right now, your choice is a mid-drive with rear derailer or gearbox, or mid-gearbox and rear electric hub. I like that this combines both into the mid-drive so you can run standard rear wheel-sets and have swappable wheels. Also, most mid-drive electrics still use a chain-drive, but with the extra torque at the…

FYI - That exact sign isn’t for stuff falling off the truck. It’s because if they’re doing a highway job, at some point that truck will pull into the construction lane, and not stay in the travel lanes. It literally means “don’t go where I’m about to go”.

Not if your tongue weights are right. If your 2nd trailer offloads too much weight from the front of the first trailer, you’re going to have a bad time. My trailer has about 2,200 pounds of tongue weight its all loaded up, so 350 pounds of 2nd-trailer-tongue-weight is negligible. BTW this is legal is most Western…

Those seatbelt sleeves increase serious injury by moving the lap-belt up from the hip-bones and onto the torso.

They can improve lap-belt safety too, simply be keeping the belt across the hips. Because kids are so skinny, lapbelts tend to ride up across their torsos. One of our good family friends lost their 10-year daughter this way. The seatbelt ruptured he spleen. She was alert and walking around immediately after the wreck,…

Nuclear isn’t a technology problem, it’s a construction problem. They take 20+ years and billions of dollars before they even start operation, and they may never pay for themselves.

It’s unconscionable for Ford to sell a car a price point that more people can afford? Because if they added all US/EU safety features, Latin America drivers would still be driving one of these best:

I commute 90 minutes each way right now in my 2015 Focus ST. My last project I was driving 20 hours every weekend to get home. It’s super comfortable. The Recaros were the main reason I went with it. Nearly any other car kills my back on long drives. I average 32 MPG.

You’d be better off with a Nissan forklift. It already has an EV-drive hydraulic system, and is designed to work at appropriate speeds and uses pressure transducers for actuating the pumps, so they are analog-feeling. Plus, the forklifts just use a lead-acid battery cube, so they are swappable, and will make sure your…

Yup, in later years, the 4x4 + extended cab was not available with the 4-cyl. You had to pick one. Except as you noticed, if you opted for the Mazda variant. My favorite though was the later Mazda B4000 with the overhead cam engine with the available with the M/T.

I’m guessing a 12-year-old-VAG-tranny isn’t cheap? I’m not trying to defend Testla BTW. I keep my cars a LONG time, so serviceablilty is important to me. The lease on their Rogue will be up before their disposable CVT shits its belt.

Look in the service manual of any modern car, and you’re likely run across at least fluid or wear parts considered “lifetime”, and there’s a “*” that defines lifetime as “the life of the vehicle”. And nearly all modern vehicles stop scheduled maintenance schedules at 150,000 miles.

I agree. My point was he *probably* would have wrecked even if he weren’t stoned. I’ve cleaned up wrecks on that street from sober drivers not speeding even....

He was driving on a 35 MPH neighborbood arterial, covered in mashed leaves (the city lets you blow leaves into the street, but they only pick them up 1x/week), in the middle of a gentle S-curve. Not a safe place to be going 100 MPH under any circumstance, but also not all that uncomon. The whole city is 25-35 MPH but…