Came to see this, was not disappointed.

Slipping ringers to car magazine testers used to be really common practice. This is why Consumer Reports always anonymously buys their test cars off the lot instead of letting manufacturers loan them examples.

I bet it’s for the fleet market. A huge percentage of F150s are sold to fleets and fleet buyers can demand option combinations that one-off buyers can’t.

Is anyone really going to be using one of these as a daily driver, though?

I mean, my camper van only gets 12 mpg, but that’s balanced by the fact that I only drive it on camping trips, and thus put less than 4000 miles a year on it.

It’s often amazing to me the logical pretzels people will twist themselves into just to justify not voting.

Especially since we now know that “plotting to kidnap the governor” is in the list of things that aren’t illegal if you’re a white guy, just like taking over federal wildlife refuges.

My neighbor who would start up his chopper at 6 am every morning resembled that.

They’re tee shirt stores that sell you the Harley lifestyle, but in many cases can’t actually sell you a bike without a long wait.

Republicans have always both wanted illegal immigrants for the cheap labor that their corporate donors desire, and wanted to give the impression of being hard on illegal immigration to make their law-and-order voters happy. It’s not the contradiction you think. They want an underclass that can be exploited because…

Suspending people’s licenses doesn’t work. They still have to get to work, so they keep driving anyway.

You can restore anything, but these aren’t that rare. There are much better ones to start with, ones that don’t need whole chunks of the side wall and rear clip replaced. If someone gave it to me for free I might consider trying to fix it, but I wouldn’t pay $6,700 for the privilege. The rear hatch area, in…

Sure, and if you’re a construction worker you can fall to your death pretty much any day of the week. It’s far more likely than being shot if you’re a cop.

I’d be with you if the good cops didn’t protect the bad ones behind the blue wall of silence. I feel like it’s bad cops and accomplices.

“Uni-party” is a weird way to discuss two groups with diametrically opposed stances on immigration.

The air vents on my Clarity are recessed and the ones on my Econoline are way too far from the driver’s eye line, sadly. I have tried an air vent clip mount on my Del Sol and it works, but it blocks the heater fan control.

This is why, as a 6' tall person, I never bought a Miata. I didn’t plan on doing track days but I could tell I wasn’t going to fit with the top on.

That rust on the side panel is very bad news. There’s a pinch weld there. Water has been leaking down *inside* the panel, pooling on top of the pinch weld flange, and rusting it away. It’s a big repair that’ll require removing the interior and cutting out most of the panel. Basically the van has inoperable cancer and…

Farm work is a bit of a special case because farm labor in the US has *always* been performed by an underclass that essentially has no power to push for better wages and treatment.
First we had chattel slavery, where laborers were literally owned by their bosses.
Then we had sharecropping, where laborers were kept in…

The idea that Americans are lazy and soft, and America is going downhill because of it, has been a talking point on the political right for decades. Often there’s a subtext that it’s “other” Americans who are the problem, not the target audience of whoever’s doing the talking. “You guys are the good guys, it’s just…

Ah, interesting. For some reason it didn’t occur to me that there’s a resale market for pickup beds.

Sadly there are no good phone mounts, just ones that are bad in different ways.