Yeah, I don’t buy “insurance scam.” There are lots of safer ways to pull that off.

I vote drunk driving. If the police don’t find you until you’re sober I imagine it saves a lot of legal difficulties.

I agree about most of that except “increase towing capacity.” BOF chassis tend to have much higher towing capacities than unibodies. Unibodies lack anything substantial enough to bolt a hitch to.

Normally, yes, but EVs have upended things because there’s unmet demand for EV trucks. Rivian is a completely unknown brand but they’re moving product, for example.

It’s true that the Clarity doesn’t have a pure EV mode, but in Eco mode the engine won’t kick in unless you use the last inch or so of pedal travel, unless the battery is low. (The point where the engine kicks in does slowly creep lower below a certain charge threshold; this is indicated by the white arc on the…

The fact is, pickup trucks are not challenging vehicles to design and build. That’s one of the reasons domestic automakers love them so much — they’re all profit. There are marketing challenges, but right now there seems to be more demand for electric trucks than supply, so even those are not a high hill to climb.…

I remember looking at an Element when they first came out and being shocked that its payload capacity was the same as my Civic hatch.

I also think the Aztek doesn’t look as ugly now as it did when it came out, especially the later version without the plastic cladding. The Kammback styling that looked so weird then is so common now.

I’ve always thought the Crosstour looked like a Civic hatchback that had been inflated by a car bomb explosion.

A lot of these guys just REALLY like working. Someone once asked Michael Dell why he didn’t retire and he stared at them for a second and said, “do you have any idea how much fun it is to run a multi-million-dollar company?”

The thing is, I’m agender and my wife is transgender. DeSantis seems to be on a path toward making it outright illegal to be trans, so I think I’ll just have to put up with the higher rent.

2011.

Have you ever been to the parts of CA near the Nevada border? They’re extremely sparsely populated.

Any vehicle or device is improved by toggle switches.

The Japanese have been doing brand stacking for years, especially on JDM models. Mitsubishi Delica Star Wagon 4WD, anyone?

Serious question: What happens when your phone battery goes dead?

My dad had an old Explorer as his “fish car” and he’d do the same. Lock the keys inside, go fly fishing, open it with the keypad when he got back. He never had to worry about dropping his keys in the stream.

I knew someone who, for years, would buy only Oldsmobiles because she knew where all the controls were in an Oldsmobile and hated learning a new layout. She kept this up right up until Oldsmobile was killed off as a brand.

I feel like it’s kinda their fault for insisting I have my office door open, but you know how it is, you gotta pick your battles.

Yeah, I mean, if you can pretend to be straight except when you’re on vacation I guess that works. I never seemed to be able to fool anyone. I’m apparently really bad at performing stereotypical masculine behavior.