Forester and CX-5 are the only compact CUVs with manual options, right? Or am I missing some?

Pronounced cock-shot. Canadian company (Brantford, ON), originally sold here as Co-op tractors.

Not just John Deere—International Harvester was the larger tractor mfr. at the time (JD didn’t become #1 until the early ‘60s), and there was also Case, Ford, Massey-Harris (later Massey Ferguson), Allis-Chalmers, Minneapolis-Moline, Cockshutt...and that’s just tractor companies! There were a lot of farm-related…

Hey man, I like the VentiPorts, even if they do nothing. But only on Buicks, and only from the factory.

Almost literally beating swords into plowshares.

I should have guessed Ram HDs did, but I wasn’t completely sure that GMs did, because they don’t make any trucks larger than Class 3.

This. Plus, Buick just updated the logo to the colored trishield. Give them at least 15 years before another update.

They did sell several Opel models at Buick dealerships in the early ‘70s. They didn’t do well, even after the 1973 oil crisis.

“DAE all of today’s cars are boring and thtoopid???”

More Buicks are sold in China (both sedans and CUVs) than anywhere else.

Oh! I wasn’t thinking about the 540/1000 RPM connection, which I thought was standard on all PTOs, but maybe I should’ve been. What I more meant was what you brought up at the end—traction issues, yes, but also that even HD pickup engines have different characteristics than tractor engines that might make them…

Yes, the Super Duty and Ram have a PTO provision, but most agricultural implements require a tractor engine.

Everyone here is freaking out about the PTO, but that’s not necessarily what the big selling point was to the target buyers (farmers) in 1945. Tractors of the time all had belt drives, and PTOs were becoming more and more common as well.

Ford Super Dutys have a PTO provision; I’m not sure if other HD pickups do.

In a vacuum, the speed of sound would be 0 anyway, since sound needs a medium to travel through. Even at normal atmospheric pressure, sound is something like 340 m/s while light is just shy of 300,000,000 m/s—hardly “close enough.”

Why does it matter to you how people use their vehicles?

I’m thinking something like a set of LEDs that fits perfectly into the slots.

What advantages would the stick have over the automatic in MPG, performance, or power?

I wonder if we could all chip in to get Mr. Regular a jacket and cutoffs like those.

It’s not really on the level of the Raptor in terms of parts or performance (which can tow 8000 lbs, by the way) so it’s surprising to see such a large drop in capability as a truck for the ZR2.