Oh I agree 100%. I should’ve clarified that the people who suggested these trucks are the ones that find them pointless. I’ve always felt that 95% of non-commercial full-sized truck owners in the U.S. don’t actually need a full-sized truck.

I feel like a few of these are not as much ugly as they are pointless as trucks. The H3 and Ridgeline, specifically.

Wow, a thought-provoking, honest to goodness write up! I’m sorry about your situation obviously, but thank you for that great read. Reminded me of the regular, entertaining write-ups we’d get from Torch, David Tracy and the like.

...and then held pretty nice until the 1997 F150.

Dodge D100 Sweptside. Woof.

They are a smaller volume company, and they’ve been that for decades. Nothing wrong with that by the way, they’re not trying to be BMW, Ford or Honda. As long as they are turning a profit and I’m seeing them all over the place (which I am), then they’re doing just fine. I’ve never seen anyone try so hard to downplay…

Not all car makes sell 250k units a year. 120k for Volvo is more than good enough, considering they’re a entry-level luxury brand based in Sweden.

For that price, the thing better be damn near mint. Tattered seat, cracked dash, non-functioning options, and he can’t be bothered to attach SOME trim pieces? This guy is delusional.

A friend of mine who does auto plants, he does auto plants, that’s what he’s great at. He’s great. The biggest in the world. He said, ‘I want to see a plant.’

...nothing Polestar has sold or really even Volvo, has done well.

I’m no Warren Buffet, but $80K+ cars that eek out 300 miles of range and look like...everything.

Maybe in 2005, sure. The range is perfectly fine for 99% of what people will use it for, and it’s pricing is well within the norms of entry-level luxury brands and EVs. It also looks amazing, so it should do well.

But yeah, $80,000 for a Volvo? Oy vey!

I’ll admit it. The grille has definitely grown on me, especially with the 4-series.

Going from a Clydesdale to a Pinto is a lateral move. The ‘70 to the ‘71 Mustang transition is when the car lost its soul.

This situation is a bit different. The model went away entirely for decades and only the name was attached to something different. I think the post refers to a newly re-designed generation of a model that is worse than the one the year prior.

The plane manufacturer is the only reason this story was posted on here. This kind of issue happens every now and then and with a plane of this age, was likely due to a maintenance error not a manufacturing issue.

Hope it’s not the same plane.

Those kinds of things are long gone now.

Nobody is going to daily drive this. It’s going into somebody’s collection.