Yeah, and it’s just a convoluted process to begin with. Find the trailer you like, get the tow vehicle that can tow it (probably almost everyone first-timing will not have the right car / truck for it...), and then the extra amount of stuff you have to buy to make it livable, towable, usable, and so on.

But we’re still guessing. This could be like the Avalanche and just be more of chopped SUV rather than based on a pickup body.

It truly amazes me how many $60k - $80k trucks get sold in this country when median household income in 2020 was $67k. People must be taking out 8 year loans and literally using every single penny that the bank will finance them for.

This is just a Ridgeline that has been hitting the gym. 

I see what you mean, but trucks are equipment that businesses need to do a job.

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

I’ve pretty much accepted that my next truck will be $50-60k, and that’s just a Ram 1500 EcoDiesel with the options I want. I’m going to wait until prices begin to come back down, maybe I’ll see incentives, once more.

so this is more of a unibody design than the ford, which is more traditional body on frame....  would expect ford to come out with a single cab long bed work truck version within 2 years, but this is an SUV with a bed and you’ll never see a single cab version.

wow the front is fugly. at least Chevy is consistent with…

A buddy had the Cadillac version, and it was just really pleasant and useful.

Even among early adopters, there’s going to be a portion that wants something that at least pretends to be practical. 

$40k for a 400-mile range EV pickup is not expensive, Erik.

So the UK doesn’t have left on red? Does Japan? I thought everyone had some sort of turn on red rules by now.

as a brit, my first and only experience of driving in a America was borrowing a friend’s MX-5 while staying at his house in Rockfort, Illinois. My experience was pretty much ‘this is weird’ followed by ‘actually, this is really easy’, followed by ‘ok this is really boring’. The roads were all two or three lanes wide,…

You won’t find lane reflectors anywhere that regularly plows the roads for snow. Otherwise the plows would just rip them out every year. Once I moved somewhere with almost no snowfall, there were lane reflectors everywhere.

The only time I can remember feeling some sort of patriotism for the US was when driving around a friend from the UK and having them lose their shit when I turned right on a red light. “YOU GUYS CAN DO THAT?” Fuck yeah we can. 

Then there’s also the whole issue of turning right on a red light. That’s a weird rule. Why is it a thing?

Sure, it has a normal steering wheel, but this is Sony. It will have a proprietary “charging stick” that only works with Sony products, you’ll receive updates via physical MiniDiscs, and the infotainment system will be Sony-designed to emulate the PS3.  

I bet the sound system in that car will be incredibly slightly-above average, and have a CD player and tape deck to die for.

Kinda depends on what you’re doing.

Yeah, this basically becomes a hard-wall tent :-) We’ve been using our camper that way in the cold. Normally we would tent-camp only, and so around freezing the season would just end.