My biggest disappointment from Toyota is how late and how little they did on the tundra. I’m in the market for a new truck. Sold my diesel F-250 in November. No more diesels. I was pretty sure I was going to buy the tundra hybrid. But it’s really a let down unless the mpg comes out at 30 or something really impressive.

Yeah. Not sure what the deal is with that. It's a 3.4. I don't think anyone would care if they named it correctly. 

Ending competition ends innovation. Bad idea.

This. And it ends competition, so effectively slows or ends advancement and innovation. 

Haha. Can you imagine 9k lbs trying to get through the silt beds of the Baja? I’m not sure they’d ever get it back out. Especially once the battery is dead.

Yes. There’sa lot of different types of off road. But in general on any type of soft terrain ground pressure is generally the best predictor of performance. Less being better.

I actually like how the battery is designed. And I really like how it’s replaceable in the chassis from the bottom. You could modify the same design for a body on frame truck. Like the hd trucks. And if 10 years down the road batteries are much better and cheaper, you could actually swap over to a new battery and…

I’d imagine they had much higher disposable income here as a higher income person due to a much lower tax rates. Sweden has a 57% tax rate for anything over 1.5x median income. Sales tax is 25% on most things. Much lower in the USA for higher earners.

USA has a higher median disposable income than Switzerland by about 8% and higher than Sweden by almost 25%. Maybe they moved to Alabama? 

The image you have is not actually a separate skateboard. That’s part of the unibody that’s been removed for marketing use. In production steel parts you see are manufactured as part of the body and then the suspension and battery components are installed. Basically that’s the body from the floorboard down. All part…

I‘m totally guessing. The biggest thing pointing me to unibody is the Hummer looking so similar and being unibody. I don’t think that’s a deal breaker, but it does limit utility for stuff like flatbeds and snow plows and off-road stuff unless the built in some hard mounting points for those things. But I don’t think…

I think it’s a unibody based on IFS/IRS suspension and the cab design. Unibody relies on the roof as a bridge between the suspension sets. Visually it looks like a unibody design. And the Hummer EV is a unibody. So this is pretty likely to be a unibody as well. It’s just a full size trucklet! 

Trust me. My Airbnb rental condo totally needs a $90k Denali to tow my boat to the... I mean get toilet paper to refill the bathroom. 

Sure - but why is an F250 deductible 100% in year 1? Show me an Iowa curve that supports that depreciation schedule... And why isn’t a Rav4 that a Uber driver uses for work deductible on the same schedule? That’s the rub for me. It’s nonsensical to deduct fully in the first year and it does incent buyers to buy…

I had a similar era 2001 GMC HD2500 with the 8.1 Allison combo. My god was that a horrible truck. It was actually the truck that finally split me away from being a GM fan and I’ve never owned another GM product. I ordered it new with every option they had. For... IIRC about $36k OTD. haha. amazing how much inflation…

Agreed. $40k Lightning - that’ll sell to actual tradespeople if it ever exists in real life in any volume.

Generally your intuition is right - on side hills, the solid axle will have more body roll if the COG is higher than the roll center which is normally is. The typical solution is to use anti-sway bars to help balance this. But those tend to then reduce the benefits of load distribution on uneven terrain.

It’s rare that too much flex is a problem off road. A limit strap is always an option if it is. But sometimes having an axle unload on a big downhill drop is an issue. I’ll still take more travel over less travel basically 100% of the time if given the choice. On-road, soft offroad suspension is inherently…

My example assumes equal flex front and rear. You could have both examples in my calculation on the same vehicle with the IFS front and solid axle rear. In any scenario up to the point of 100% weight on one side (roll over) the solid axle will distribute weight more evenly. That’s not always good. But in many cases it…

I had a little teardrop for many years. Loved it! The hard sided tent concept was great. Biggest benefits were having all the stuff for camping ready to do at a moments notice. So it’s really easy to hitch and go. Doesn’t take hours to get ready or unpack. And in places with a lot of grizzly bears it’s an extra layer…