Honestly it’s not the truck bed length that’s usually the issue it’s the height of the sides and even the tailgate. You have to be legit tall and strong for some things. 

• a small pickup that will fit in a regular car space

The best part is how absolutely useless they are for hauling anything in the beds. With those over-sized cabins eating into the bed as manufacturers try to position them for family comfort. I was buying lumber the other day, shoving a bunch of lumber into the back of my Forester, just some six and 8ft boards and all…

It is like they took what I had been thinking/saying/shouting and made it into a sketch. I don’t know of anyone that makes a major purchase without talking it over with their significant other especially something that they are going to be interfacing with almost daily. What if they don’t like the color or it doesn’t…

I don’t think the typical tacoma buyer is any different than a f-150 buyer. They want a pickup because they like it, they think it’s cool, and it helps them with a hobby or something (DIY, camping, hunting, whatever) 5x to 7x per year. There’s some differences between the two models, of course, but I think a lot of it…

The hardest part of the entire process is getting dealerships on board.

Maybe if they didn’t force you to take the shit engine and shit interior with that manual, the G70 might still have that option. But we’ll never know.

Saying you’d buy a manual on a survey and actually plunking down $50K+ on a manual Cadillac are not at all the same thing.

“Sixty-six percent of American adults surveyed know how to drive a manual.”

They are full of shit, but I like those fake AF numbers if it keeps one more option to choose your own adventure.

They should’ve also mentioned that 72.1% of their customer base would purchase immediately a Shooting Brake CT4-V with a stick.

1st Gear: I think we can cut Mary Barra some slack here. Her job is to advocate for what’s good for GM, period. She is going to saddle up with whoever is in office out of sheer pragmatism.

But after learning that, it’s quite amazing how enriching all these different voices are to have around and hear (those that otherwise would have to take a step back from our voice domineering - by default - over everyone else’s).

One of the hardest things for me to learn, as a six-foot-six 285 pound white cis-het man with a deep booming voice, was to just shut up and listen.

I think you’re misinterpreting the quote. You’re correct that inclusivity is about lifting unheard voices, but inclusivity also asks that we quiet the voices that have traditionally dominated the conversation in order to make space for those unheard voices. It’s about leveling the playing field: that straight guy has…

Last year in Austin before the F1 race, my wife and I drove up to meet our fellow Jalops, and some of the writers for the site. We ended up hanging out and sharing a table with a two really cool young men, and about 30 minutes into our conversation, I realized they were an item.

So much this. You have a nice 2015 vehicle with decent performance/reliability/practicality...why on earth would you get rid of this if there’s nothing wrong with it?

All bad suggestions. Someone straight out of college with reliable transportation shouldn’t be buying ANYTHING. How about paying down those college loans and investing into tax deferred retirement funds.

These tracking systems are also infuriating because they reward driving to meet their standards, not to safely meet the driving conditions.

I can’t imagine the insurance company would be too happy with me turning the traction control off in the snow because my car’s system is so horribly inadequate that it does more…

First gear: these big brother insurance schemes are multiplying like Kudzu. It sounds fine at first- don’t sign up for these if you aren’t ok with being tracked. But it could get to the point that signing up to be tracked is the only way to avoid paying double or more in car insurance.

Did they update the interior? Those graphics on the digital gauges seriously date this car. I would rather have regular analog gauges instead of 80's inspired digital.

I’m going to get panned for this, but I wonder if they realize or don’t care that with forced induction this car would be a car in the mold of the WRX when it came out and had almost the power of an M3 for soooo much less money. Maybe its selling fine without, but I keep seeing this car as a “good enough” effort…