Yeah, I don’t really understand why they didn’t do that. 5th and 6th have always seemed like pretty redundant mild overdrives to me. Why not leave 5th as a mild overdrive and make 6th a deep overdrive

I do! Often! And I’m tired of sleeping on the ground so I’m considering buying something like this for my Tacoma, hence knowing so much about them.

Before I say anything else I do also think it’s overpriced, and also you’re right it is a bed cap that’s turned into a camper. On the bare truck bed thing that’s actually sometimes preferable to a fully furnished slide-in camper depending on your usage, in fact there’s a big market for professionally made pop-top bed…

He’s a fabricator and outdoorsman from Montana building a product for other outdoorsmen, the beard is hardly out of place.

Well that’s an interesting way to judge the quality of someone’s work

Uh, okay. Why?

See, if you were into shitbox 4x4s made by a brand with even worse quality control you might not have this problem!

Essentially the thing but professionally made costs $6250:

Well, not economical. No matter what you do full time four wheel drive in a heavy box with a thirsty V8 means you aren’t seeing more than 14 MPG

I’m with you, mostly at least. I went from a 1991 4Runner to a 2018 Tacoma. Basically I drive an ton and the 4Runner was just getting to the point I needed to spend more time under it than I had to spend, used prices for anything with a stick and four wheel drive are crazy and I can afford it so I figured I’d snap up…

I have a 2018 DCSB Off Road 4x4 with the manual, and yeah I’ve noticed a pretty crazy dropoff based on speed too. I live near Seattle, Washington and drive down to Portland a lot. I’ve noticed if I take it easy and drive 60 or 65 the whole way down I’ll actually see above 23,at 70 or 75 I see around 20 and once I woke…

Well, to start with the easy one Volkswagen Group.

Not really, they have the Wrangler, a muscle car, a muscle SUV, a sports sedan, a sporty crossover, a hot hatch and a rebadged Miata. Besides Honda, Toyota, Nissan and Mazda who have never offered more than a couple performance-oriented models at a given time I can’t think of any major brands with fewer.

That’s fair, I haven’t driven any in full-fat form so I trust you there but I have driven an SS 1LE with MagRide and it was really very good in touring mode. I have driven a rental Charger but I don’t really think that’s at all comparable.

Have you ever driven a car with MagRide? The Camaro’s more comfortable. And faster in the quarter, and better at going around corners, and cheaper. And since when is a Camaro with a 650 horsepower supercharged 6.2 liter V8 not a muscle car? Just because they also made it’s also one of the fastest production vehicles…

People don’t give it much credit as a corner carver because the Camaro ZL1 and Sheby GT350 exist. I’m sure Hellcats(especially wide-bodies) handle much better than you’d think for a 4400lb muscle car but the competition blows it out of the water as far as a total package for an enthusiast goes. You won’t notice the…

I’m guessing whoever is in charge of FCA’s UK advertising has a Quattro and a TVR and saw an opportunity to have them at an empty runway for a day.

Shifting the GOD DAMN AUTOMATICS

I imagine the experience would be the inverse of your experience with Lotus in a way. From what I’ve heard at least newer Lotuses(Loti? Lotus?) don’t break as often as you’d expect but are a major, major pain when they do. Classic Land Rovers break constantly but it’s pretty much always minor and easier than expected…

I learned the hard way that Alfa Romeos have the reputation they have for a reason, currently learning the hard way that Range Rover Classics have the reputation they have for a reason, sounds like Lotus should be next on the list!