“Your average hybrid owner is out about an extra $38 bucks a month over this time last year. Those with full-sized trucks are spending an extra $100 with the same price rise.”

For the contractors and laborers who need full-sized trucks and for whom this is an unavoidable expense, I hope you find relief at the pump.

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Super disappointed that wasn’t a red ‘95 Dodge Ram.

It was amazing.  It was like Ford wanted to destroy its reputation for building competent four door sedans.

This! I don’t what’s up with all these dour ND people today. This POS Escort is the most pure jalop vehicle I’ve seen on here in ages and it deserves to be celebrated.

It’s $3,500.00. If you want a manual wagon, something (subjectively) “cool,” it’s only thirty-five hundred dollars.  For me, this is in the range of cost where it’s cheap enough that if you like it, and it’s isn’t clearly a steaming pile of shit, it’s a NP.

Wrapping everything in the Stars & Stripes and calling it ‘Merica the last 20 years has numbed everyone to it. Nothing turns me off quicker than someone calling themselves a patriot and praising the Almighty in an effort to legitimize their bullshit.

Ten years ago my youngest daughter told me about half her class couldn’t name either U.S. senator, their congressman, the governor or even the mayor. This was in Virginia Beach, Virginia, the largest city in Virginia. It’s an hour and a half drive from the state capital in Richmond and about three and a half hours…

i’ve said it before and i’ll say it again;

I hate Rams. Lifted Rams, Hemi Rams, Dually Rams, I hate them all. Mostly I hate the drivers of 90% of these Rams. On my commute there really is no bigger asshole than a redneck in his Ram.

GM’s full-size pickup and SUV family is hideous right now. When I see one behind me in traffic it looks like a 10' high retaining wall made of grill and headlights and looks comical.  It’s like being chased down the street by a smiling razor blade.

If he was good at economics, would he be working as pizza delivery guy?

AH yes, the notoriously pro-big truck/SUV Jalopnik comments section. 

To be fair, the parts of our nation that would need that kind of education are the same parts passing laws to prohibit such knowledge being taught.

Looks like they have a lot in common with Russia, don’t they?

My first thought was the RAM lineup, but I realized that the truck is fine, the drivers who decide that the best thing to do is drive inches from your bumper with their poorly aimed headlights and AliExpress LED light bar are the problem.

Actually, no - it’s for kids up to about elementary school. And while Mitsibishi’s version is pretty shameful on a number of other fronts, the concept of just slapping a couple small extra seats in the back of an otherwise compact CUV is pretty reasonable. In a CR-V or Rav4 or Tiguan layout, there’s plenty of space to…

So much of America’s internal conflict could be avoided if our substandard public education system would/could teach  all of our citizens what “fascism” actually is. Ditto “communism” and “socialism”. Although I suspect that the students who most badly needed such information would have skipped class to drink Mountain…

Imagine how sad a person has to be to spend days driving to a place thinking they will be welcomed as heroes only to then spend days in denial that THEY are indeed the assholes the whole time.

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You are exactly right about premium trucks. People that buy them want to display some bit of working class roots. That’s why the F150 Platinum sells and the Lincoln Blockwood and Mark LT didn’t. Hell, the Yukon Denali and Escalade are very similar but are bought by 2 different demographics.