I think that the rate at pushing regulation to force a change is the issue. If we switched purely to EV today, we wouldn’t be able to support the electrical pull from the grid.

Isn’t it an iron block though not an alloy block that is the biggest difference I had always heard between the truck engine and the LS engines. The trailblazer actually got a modified LS2 where as many pickups got iron blocks.

The truck is EV trucks are about efficiency, I need one that can be drug through the mud without pulling apart. Sugar beet and potato harvest are really hard on trucks. I have pulled trucks out of the field with a 4wd tractor where the trailer brakes left a 2-3" groove next to the sunken wheel tracks.

Taxing them equal. An EV uses the road just like a fuel efficient ICE vehicle. The ICE vehicle in all states adds to the gas tax which is used or supposed to be used for roads. Some states have a flat registration fee, others have gone to odometer readings for taxing for EV use. A federal level EV usage tax would be…

I did forget about the Mazda3, I wouldn’t mind owning one of them. I have a Datsun 240z for summer time, but I am not taking it out in the MN salty winter.

So how do we fund the roads if everyone switched to an EV? Solely through trucks on the road being the only buyers of the fuel tax? States and Feds need to fix the EV skirting the gas tax problem prior to mandating a massive gas tax.

I don’t think we should continue the $7,500 tax credit blanketed on any model.

My trouble is that I need a pickup 10-20% of the time... If I have a beater pickup that I don’t know if I can trust it makes it a PITA, so instead I bought a new one. I had a WRX that did great on MPG compared to the Trailblazer SS it replaced when that was stolen. The WRX couldn’t tow SxSs although I have hauled…

Ethically a vehicle which is operated/owned by someone should be for self preservation of said person. If I would save my own life if I was driving... It should make that decision. If I bought a product that would knowingly kill me to save more people who could move out of the way as well which the machine likely…

There have been people building pro-touring sick autocross pickups for 5+ years now. Ken Block has a crap ton more money than any of them, and the publicity which helps make him stand out though.

So GM way way beat out Tesla at selling a 200 mile per charge EV to the mass price that Tesla set.

I don’t think people understand the technology that VW group has obtained through their LMP1H programs. The pinnacle of electric and battery efficiency technology for durability has been racing for how many years now. Even if the motorsport engineers don’t stick around the knowledge and tools for analysis built can be…

I am guessing that we have something in development, but the public doesn’t know.

Based on the payments sure, but I am paying ahead on my side by side loan. I intend to do the same on my pickup that I have on a 60 month. I guess it is to keep me from buying other things (tools) or pieces of equipment.

Oh trust me, I have had to tell my dad many times that he is over torquing many items. His words are, “it won’t fall off this way”. When you torque tractor wheel bolts with a 3/4" drive breaker bar and 4' cheater bar... they are tight.

The best is when a consumer says “I think the torque spec is way too high, so I only torqued it to X” as a recommendation to another owner. I have heard this many times on UTV half shafts.

Yes they can. Some don’t run in 4wd at all times, but I highly recommend it. When in doubt throttle out was told time and time again when I first got to drive them. Downside is when you are going flat out... there isn’t anymore throttle to give when it gets loose.

Should have taken her out in the trails instead of a track. Offroading and driving a track are similar but not the same.

Weight for bridges is my guess. My dad farms, and even though we have enough axles on the road (6) to move to 93,500 lbs or whatever the next legal limit over 80k is... our trucks are all to short (short wheel-base on semi tractor and short end dump trailers). This would mean that all the weight is more concentrated…

Montana has cropland. I grew up in ND. There was a farmer who recently went bankrupt. He had 59,000 acres of tillable land in 2012, supposedly.