Because GM didn’t go the Ford route. They have the v6tt, but made the choice not to use it in a pickup.

The hot shot market is full of these HD pickups. I think they are replacing the small business class trick market more so for towing needs. You still need the 1.5-3+ ton trucks to upfit chassis cab trucks.

Highly depends where you live as to how much you want to tow. ‘15 WRX wasn’t rated to tow. Hauled a disassembled 40s Jeep on a harbor freight trailer 950 miles. It wasn’t that safe.

That or used pickups. Granted my dad has kept his longer than he should have racking up some big expenses. He put an engine in his 02 at 365k. 3rd transmission and transfer case. Most of the miles are short trip farm miles so it's hard on things. He is somewhere around 400k or more on it now. It's his newest pickup…

I wish I had that kind of money to let my pickup sit. I DD mine, but my round trip commute is 2.6 miles. In summer it sits while taking the supermoto.

Depends on the time of year. This would be safer as it’s meant for the weight compared to the 2002 Duramax we use to pull a seed tender. Combined vehicle rating on that year was 22k. I have crossed the scales at 27-28k. Although we plan to step up to a semi as they are underutilized in the spring, dad regularly uses…

Sure during the week. Most I know with HDs and a diesel in a upper trim (high country or Denali, platnium for the Ford’s) DD them. Then on weekends tow their recreational toys or sometimes work related stuff.

Yeah, that was supposed to be part of it. Receive information from NORAD then it would actively track incoming threats and counter fire. A local ended up being killed from a fall during construction, a board or sheeting covered a vertical shaft, and it gave out on them.

It would likely need to be a super low hanging car or have an issue. Most rail cars are high enough off the tracks. Most that are low hung outside of passenger cars isolate the cargo well from the rail itself.

lol, I don’t think we have that type of sign around here.

The image shared by the news is to keep the switch tracks free of ice and debris. Here in Northwest MN they have propane tanks along side the switches and supposedly have a method to heat them using the propane.

My ZR2 suffers on interstate above 70 mph with the cut out bumpers so I tend to stick to highways of the time is similar. My WRX could pull above EPA rated highway mpgs which was alright. I logged 23.5k in the first year with that car.

The environment is also designed for the turbo conditions in the 4 cylinder. Sure the combustion will be different, but the engine was designed with that premise. You don’t design to a different goal, slap a turbo on and call it good.

That is pretty cool. Growing up in ND you see plenty of relics. Like the Nekoma pyramid on the prairie. It was operational for all of 1-2 weeks if that before a treaty shut it down.

The threat would be addressed. They mention how detectable it will be... Don’t think it would be a concern.

Wrong, Russia doesn’t have as much faith in being able to pinpoint a target so they build bigger weapons than the US. Have heard this on many accounts. My mom works at one of the Cold War’s top 5 targets by Russia, a powerful radar station for the polar shot.

Dang. I ride from time to time for work testing machines.

They simulated it in a really pathetic way. Why not put the pickup in park with 4wd engaged and with the parking brake?

Hopefully people can get a control on the micro-sat launches. So many new items for governments to have to track as they circle the Earth. I grew up with one of the space radars in the distance.

The Roxor though is 100% not US road legal. Sure some states and local ordinance allow them to run on roads as “legal”.