AWD on the first-gen would activate when necessary at all speeds. You could “lock” the rear diff with a button on the dash, and that would start to disengage at 10mph and fully disengage at 18mph.... sonthat may be what you’re thinking of...

And yet the Ridgeline outworks most suburban trucks out there.. go figure.

Civic hatchback.

I dunno. Among Ford afficionados, this era is the most embarassing F150 generation ever. It really lacked capability compared to the competition, as well as the next-gen F150. If that doesn’t bother you, then maybe NP.

I strongly suspect the mid- to late-90s Chevy pickups were their most reliable generation.

I have an early Gen2 Ridgeline, which probably cracks the Top10 for ugliest trucks. Fortunately, the rest of the truck more than makes up for it, and that is saying a lot since truck buyers are some of the most vain vehicle buyers out there.  Still, a lot of folks can't pony up the cajones to take that leap.

Peak Dodge design was in the 80s, i think Ford was in the late 70s, Chevy was 70s & 80s, although they had some good-lookin’ trucks in the 60s.

The canola is just a cheap backup oil in case we run out of one of the others, or want something cheap to oil the grill, etc. Before we know it, the bottle gets old and wife wants a new bottle, so i get to retire the old bottle to the chainsaw.  Win-win.

Been using expired canola oil for years as bar & chain oil.

1st Gear: another example of how geurilla marketing can trump actual facts and science...

That's Ford's secret recipe.

Ref: bullying

The oil dilution comes from people babying the engine, not running it long enough or hot enough.  Drive it like you stole it and the engine will be just fine.  If you putt-putt three miles back and forth to work with it, though, you'll have issues.  Run it hard and hot!

125hp/ton seems to be the standard.

As well, GM was working with VM Motori back in the mid-2000s to bring a diesel to their Cadillac division. The 2008 recession put an end to that project. However, Stellantis (or whoever they were back then) picked up that diesel a few years later and dropped it into the Ram trucks.... yep, the EcoDiesel.

It wouldn’t be a complete list without “Bullitt”. Not the greatest chase scene by today’s standards, but still very visceral and raw. It has a number of foibles, but if you ignore those, the chase scene is entertaining.

That’s my point. This os going to happen one way or the other, so we might as well figure out the safest way to do it before it is forced upon us. There are ways to safeguard it, it just has to be thought out properly.  If we just blindly complain that it’s unfair, we will get screwed over eventually.

Maybe they need a proprietary port on the car that only law enforcement can access (with two-way communication so that the car owner can see exactly who is accessing it, as well as their credentials).

The Maverick is bigger than the first-gen Dakota ('87-'93), which was the first “mid-size” truck.

Is this to make up for their bed sides that collapse if you put a shell on them?