Plumbers gotta plumb. They also sell the chassis-cab for RV upfitters. A 1-ton Express/Savana with a 6.6 Duramax was 2/3 the price of a similarly equipped Silverado or Sierra. Now they only offer them with the 6.0 Vortec or 2.8 Duramax.

So...why would I want this over a Discovery? It starts marginally less expensive than the Disco. It just looks like a modern version of the Freelander or a Land Rover version of the FJ Cruiser, without any of the coolness of the original Defender series.

Soooo...basically it’s a 1995 ZR1 for the same MSRP as a 1995 ZR1?

The G-class is basically the latest evolution of the Gelandewagen, which is basically the best 4wd vehicle ever built originally for the civilian market. It’s the only wheeled vehicle Car and Driver ever tested that could keep up with and surpass the Hummer H1. Even with the bougie wheels and interior, it’s a hard…

Engineering and scientific skills...from the dumbest “member” of the Mythbusters and the Hamster. Did you people not watch any Top Gear episodes where they had to “build” stuff? Or anything on Mythbusters that Tory worked on?

They used to do that in the US too, but then the utilities realized that they were losing money on solar customers (even thought they were essentially reselling the daytime solar generated to other customers) and instituted flat metering and connection fees to eat up whatever kWh the customer was putting back on the…

There is literally 48 square miles of unoccupied land in every single state in the lower 48, except maybe Rhode Island.

Neutral: Not really. The only thing I’ve noticed is companies like Grizzly Industrial jacking up their prices on cheap table saws and other machinery, which makes them now roughly the same price as a quality tool like Jet or Delta. Grizzly and Harbor Freight leveraged the slightly-lower-quality but…

1st gear: The XT6 cost nearly nothing for GM to develop and will print money. It’s a place-holder for Cadillac dealers and they’ll sell every one they build. The Aviator is ostentatious and gaudy without adding any accessories, much like the first-gen Navigator. Ford spent way too much money developing it and the…

5th Gear: I realize this is a blog and The Morning Shift at that, but I wish people would stop parroting The New York Times articles on the “trade war” with China and do some objective journalism.

Nobody is going to buy a 1/2 ton diesel if it costs triple the price of a base V8. Ram figured that out and still only had a 20% take rate. I honestly do not see the benefit if the market is heading towards BEV development and with diesels costing more in routine maintenance. Just give me a cheap, bulletproof gas V8…

Second: GM does not care about the bailout, those loans were paid back, and Mexico gives them something they will never get in the US - cheap labor. They began preparing Ramos Arizpe to build the Blazer five years ago. They can’t just ship all the tooling and equipment up to Poletown and completely rebuild the paint…

Superb article. Very well-written and concise. The fact is that diesels are not suitable for light-duty passenger vehicles and never will be. They became popular worldwide due to the cost of fuel, and in the US due to the Great Recession and associated rise in fuel prices. Automakers should have pivoted to PHEVs and…

TL:DR, it’s an RV engine. Big torque at low rpm, reliable for years at idle. No cam phasers or timing chain guides to wear out, no DI to coke up the valves, no turbo to overheat and wear out. It’s a winner for the commercial industry and RV market. I’m just wondering how they’re going to meet emissions with a…

This car has a Big Red Sports and Imports dealer sticker on the tailgate. It’s a dealer located in Norman, OK and was the only place you could find both Ferrari and Isuzu sold in the same spot. Back in high school, there were tons of those little 1995 Isuzu pickups running around our school from Big Red, mostly…

This scene alone is the reason why License to Kill is the best Bond film, and the scene where 007 resigns when he finds out about Felix and his wife is the reason why Dalton was the best Bond ever. It was the darkest film until Casino Royale was released.

I had a 4x4 2-door Blazer that was a year older than this one. Drove it all through law school in Nebraska and traded it for an HHR in 2005. All in all, it was a good car, got me back and forth to school even during heavy snow, but had little electrical gremlins from day one. I wouldn’t mind having one again, and I…

“Its workers deserve not merely fair contracts and officials who won’t steal their money to rent crappy houses, but ones who have a modicum of self-respect.”

Just give it a Viking Funeral down the Yangtze and let it go. There are plenty of good XJs in the world that don’t need to be shipped around it.

So, when is Mahk going to show up in the video? Hope he remembered his safety vest and glasses.