Bingo, not all Ram owners are assholes, but it seems the overaggressive drivers I encounter driver either a Ram, a brodozed F-250 pickup, or black-on-black murdered-out midsized sedans (last-gen Impalas, Malibus, Fusions, etc.)

My dad has this problem with his carpool at work- one refuses to ride in his Sonic (which does decent in offset-frontal impacts last I saw) but has no problem riding in a rusted mid-90s pickup.

It’s almost a stereotype for GMC owners. I know some that claim ‘GMCs get thicker sheet metal than the Chevys and are hot-dipped’ and other drivel to inflate their sense of superiority.

FTR it’s par for the course; there are several other large, established manufacturers of motor vehicles whom I won’t mention for job reasons where it’s exactly the same case: The purchasers know little if anything about the parts, but sure will put up a fight about the projected tooling cost. The project engineers…

On Gawker it is. Speaking as a left-leaning moderate, a lot of people on the left need to realize the veneer of tolerance they pride themselves on only masks the smugness and contempt many have for anyone not in the groupthink. Lots of poor whites who would have common ground with liberals when it comes to income…

They certainly dropped it.

The contemporary Model T aftermarket industry was huge, I’m not sure if many more modern cars could come close. If you can think it up, it existed at one point or another. Tractor conversions, snowmobile conversions, OHV cylinder heads, forced induction, electric starters, etc.

I've seen the aftermath of five in the last month. All were cars drifting into oncoming traffic on a two-lane highway, or trying to turn left into a parking lot on a corner using the same center lane oncoming traffic uses at the intersection.

So, basically Stinky Pete from Toy Story 2?

The Multitap.

Ooh, how do the following statements make you feel?

My dad had a ‘20's vintage Johnson outboard motor that has a carburetor with three moving parts (float, jet adjustment screw and choke/throttle) and can be fully disassembled by removing five screws, a nut and a cotter pin.

Nobody circlejerks things to death quite like imgur.

I have this experience daily on my commute. Two lane 70MPH freeway with lots of 65MPH truck traffic means lots of speeding to pass strings of trucks, and lots of dipshits tailgating and weaving because they NEED to do 90 and you’re only doing 80.

Twice this week I watched someone texting while stopped at a red light drive through the intersection when they see the left turn lane arrow turn green in their peripheral vision. Both were near misses with the traffic turning left from the opposite direction.

Oh yeah, I agree; such a niche market is a tough nut to crack, and with the industry just getting back to its feet after the recession most are going to be skittish about such an investment for so little market share. One can still dream however, and we might have to wait and see what the US-market Ranger is going to…

Ditto. The FCA 'quality' gamble on newer JKs and the Its-a-Jeep-Thing premium on older stuff keeps me from seriously considering Wranglers, but I would love to see some actual new options for small 4x4 trucks (No, the Renegade doesn't count).

They had just begun early production in 2008/2009 when the company shit the bed and soon axed Pontiac, so they are very rare.

I can’t answer your specific question in terms of modern day ships, but there has been such thinking. From navweaps.com, I pulled this article about the N-squared Law, which covers post WWI US naval strategy about the quantity of a line of battle as opposed to the 'quality' (e.g. weight of fire and number of mounts)…

Definitely can see touches of early Cherokee genes in the front 3/4 view.