Cool little truck. As somone who learned to drive cars on a B-series (learned tractors well before, but John Deere hand-clutchs and two-cylinder-torque don’t teach you much about automotive control...) I have a great affinity for these durable and capable little guys... HOWEVER, the REPU is one of the few vehicle…

2 vehicles =/= 1 “correct” vehicle.

yeah, no. That’s a toy. Farmers can’t afford toys. A six wheel Gator with the long bed might be useful, but even then that’s $16k. $16k buys a lot of hay and fencing materials.

as far as new in the market, a Ram ecodiesel is probably closest to her needs. tradesman 4x4. its only a little bigger than the new taco, gets better mileage and isnt covered in as much fragile plastic.

My GF has proclaimed the 2015 Tacoma “too soft” and “too wide” for her use as a sheep farmer. A full size truck is too big for her requirements, and the smaller options are all too luxurious. She would jump at the chance to own a truck like the new Ranger.

My GF just drove a 2015 Tacoma and proclaimed it “soft, flabby, vague, too wide” and “too delicate”. She’s a sheep farmer and needs a real truck, but she has small animals, and needs to get the truck into smaller spaces and doesn’t need (and can’t afford the fuel) a full-size American truck. A midsize 4x4 diesel truck…

The should make a car-size version of this... It’s *NOT* a V8. *cough* ahem.

CURSE YOU HONDA!!!!

The intercoolers are in the side pods, and the turbos sit right at the bottom of the channel between the buttress and the side pods, I’m betting this exhaust position (forward of the turbo location) is actually shorter and lighter than the road car’s rear exhaust —which looks “better” and accommodates a larger…

What you’ve done here is perfectly explain why, even if I had the spare cash, I would NOT buy a new BMW M3/4

mobile kinja’d again. *sigh* I would be fired if my product were this unstable.

Ah, you’ve lumped me in with the convenient bleeding-heart-liberal-socialist-hippy crowd. I don’t take offense, but I would point out that you also misunderstand me.

Edit: KINJA! jeeez, why Do I even bother to post from mobile while drinking coffee at the kitchen table... :P (re-edited on desktop)

I was like you once, I sheltered myself from the realization that my inaction, and that of others blessed by being white, well educated, upper-middleclass males had directly contributed to us being where we are today by telling myself I was being “realistic” and the world was going to work the way it did because the…

yes, it is easier to choose the detached route and revel in your self-agrandisement while saying that your problems are not same as the problems of others. The other is never the self and engaging in empathy is a painful path that leads to not being richer. I don’t believe I’m the one that needs help. And I think it's…

That attitude is the exact reason we continue to fail to fix the problems, and a symptom of the cultural sickness the US suffers from. I’m not talking about the “needless pain of hope” of changing it, I’m talking about working to convince others that the change is necessary and beneficial. Your condescending attitude…

aaaand cue Godwin’s law...

The question we really need to ask is WHY is the spectre of trade war so frightening to the DC economists? It certainly isn’t because some people who aren’t “suicidal nationalists” think it would be bad for their bottom line and have hired lobbyists to sway the lawmakers against a policy that would be sane for the…