Pretty much the same. If you took the bloated fenders down in the Corolla, it would be very much the same.

You do realize they were citing the 2011 and 2015 contract negotiations, right? Those were before the more recent plant closings and they didn’t go last in negotiating everytime.

And here I thought it was impossible to prove because the UAW burned down the building with all of their records in it.

I guess it depends on your definition of ‘more.’ I mean if you ignore the reason people buy trucks, more utility, more cargo space, more ground clearance and etc. Also, if you ignore the obvious but have to be mentioned factors, bigger, more powerful, more metal and etc.  Then I guess you are getting more, electronics?

I’m comparing ~$35,000 car to an ~35,000 (MSRP) truck. I don’t think most families are cross shopping a truck and an Impreza.

If there’s no need to tow or haul anything or go off-road, it doesn’t make sense to own a truck.

Where are you at that these fees are higher? We have lived in three different states with two different car/truck combos, and the insurance/registration/maintenance costs are always lower in the truck.

What are you trying to get at? No one uses vehicles a max capacity every day. Sports cars don’t drive at their top speed every day. Minivans generally don’t ride around with all of the seats full. Your question could apply to any vehicle.

I bet 90% will have one of these “optional” packages installed/ordered by the dealer so they can upcharge.

I think the harder one for rental cars is how to open the gas door. Sometimes it is a lever on the fire wall, on the floor or you just have to push the door to open. It is a minor annoyance, but at least more complicated than figuring out which side the tank is on. 

I actively avoid this though. Most of the time there is an 3" metal connector in the middle of those longer hoses, or maybe the ones I have seen are just retrofitted. Either way, that metal connector is a the perfect spot to scratch your paint, especially in vans or SUVs. I see people doing it all of the time. 

And for those concerned, there is a sequel to the video—and she figured it out!

They are obviously prepping for the worst. Can an Odyssey drive over a mountain of zombies? I think not. 

let’s pile all of that and a couple of engineers into a box and give it a good shake

To be fair, those GM T tops were never that tight of a seal. If water can get in, so can COVID.

Next go after the car that was literally commissioned by a dictator bent on taking over the world, who used the citizens of countries he conquered as forced labor, tried to commit genocide and is responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of people.

Yeah, I think if we could get an allison transmission behind a hemi, it would be a better outcome. 

Me thinks you don’t understand how surveys works. This data suggests that somewhere between 35% and 100% would buy an electric truck if conditions were met, not 2/3 will not buy an electric truck. You don’t know how many of these are the same 1/3 of people putting conditions or 1/3 don’t want to compromise on power, a…

Over the 9 years from 2009 to 2018 pedestrian deaths in America ballooned 53 percent. In the course of that same timeframe, SUVs grew from 21 percent to 29 percent of the national passenger vehicle fleet. There is an inference of causation in that correlation.

My bad. I specifically looked for this before posting but didn’t see it.