Wrong - it’s still available, but only in certain configurations on 2500 and 3500 models.

Gotta step up to at least a BigHorn, and opt for four-wheel drive for reasons I can’t fully explain. Screencap from BYO site:

I thought I wanted one of these until a friend - who is MORE than proficient at driving stick and takes good care of his equipment - bought one new, and it proceeded to eat clutches like there was no tomorrow. Sure seems as if he wasn’t the exception to the norm.

guess that makes me the strange Russian dude who will come to pay you a visit

“This is a big deal for Honda, and it surprised me more that the company would leave America out of it.”

Program can still be a “big deal” without ever reaching our shores. Could be sold in most other overseas market except for ours, thus giving it weight/ priority within the company.

My guess is we’ll see it raised…

Same.

Though I loathed the C230K someone else mentioned...

I ask myself the same thing - but have to think it’s audience interest? Technically, we do niche publications well here in the States - just that they’re by and large gun-focused. The number of “TACTICAL SO-AND-SO” titles on a newsstand compared to automotive publications amazes me.

C&D is Detroit-bound as well, as Hearst is upending the current locale off S. Industrial for something more hip, or something. 

Having heard firsthand what T1 marketing managers have said about building a FST Raptor rival...probably not. There were actually plans for such a vehicle for both Chevy AND GMC at the dawn of the T1 program (Chevy would be a high-speed desert runner; GMC more a rock crawler), but were canceled when marketing didn’t…

Mine was okay with me dragging home a raggedy Impulse...and is shockingly okay with the idea of me bringing back a $300 parts car to raid from.

Waiting for the other shoe to drop.

If that’s the dividing line between truck and non-truck, then where does the Hummer H1 fall on that spectrum?

This.

You think the Scamp is cramped inside? These are even more so.

“I’m not sure why General Motors saw a need to bring a relatively unknown and extremely niche automobile to North America” 

It was absolutely a pet project to placate a newly-installed division chief who was torn away from GME just as it was launching for those brands - which in itself was a pet project of his while he…

It’s a little goofy at the moment since one of the steering rack bushings melted, allowing the rack to shift occasionally (working on sourcing a replacement bushing). But it’s a weird ball of fun. Little more body roll than you’d expect, but front end tucks in and goes where you point it. Then again, I’ve not…

‘88 Impulse. 5-speed, non-turbo, but that’s okay by me (easier to find parts for the NA 2.3L since it was in *everything*). Hope to have some small bodywork fixes done over the winter and repainted by the summer.

I’m with you - have a 3D printer in the basement ready and raring to go...

I suppose that sounds better than “I have a Giugiaro Fetish,” so we’ll go with that.

Has to still be easier than getting parts for 30-year-old Isuzu.
. . .
I still don’t know why I did that to myself.

“If you have a hard time getting into a sedan, should you really still be driving?”

Waitaminute, waitaminute; lemme get out my “jump to conclusions” mat...

My parents are 55, and they’re still adept drivers and safe behind the wheel - but at this point in life, they’ve racked up back injuries that make bending and…

Absolutely great writing. 

Are the shows mentioned still relevant - especially to their target audiences - in this day and age?

There’s your answer (and the analogy).