I am by no means diminishing how difficult it is. I too work in an industry that is depend on several different companies all with their own several different vendors to produce a product (commercial construction). Nothing ever goes perfectly.

I’ve set a date of April 1st 2039 to eliminate steak from my diet. Seeking support from California to write this mandate into law. 

What quantity of children is “unneccesary”? Two? One? And who gets to be the arbiter of who gets to have a kid and who doesn’t? Some politician? Is there a minimum income or net worth you need to meet to have a kid?

A simple way to cut pollution from our current era of cheap and plentiful air travel would be to cut cheap and plentiful air travel itself, but that would be too simple.

Seriously, the Suburban of all things would probably run fine on goat piss. 

Bullshit. Premium also contains more detergents and other additives. You can run as much premium in any engine you want and it will not result in “deposits” in your engine. I have consistently run 93 octane in a motor designed for 87. I have had this engine apart and there was no sign of and coking or carbon build up…

Definitely do not put premium in the suburban. The vortec 7400 will make no use of it and it is throwing money away. Even with a 7 psi centrifugal supercharger on ours we would run 89 in the winter because it just didn’t need it. No pinging. In summer or under load it was 91 minimum for sure but again... Supercharger.…

European octane is measured differently and not directly comparable to US octane rating.

If your engine is naturally aspirated and not high compression, running anything other than the recommended 87 is throwing money away. It’s that simple.

Sorry Liz, but Chris is wrong. Engines are designed to run on the recommended octane rating, no more no less. Getting premium gas when the engine doesn’t call for it is simply a waste of money and yields little, if any, benefits.

Yes, I’m definitely absentminded (though I’ve never driven away with the gas pump handle) and my C-Max, Bolt, and Pacifica have all stopped me when I tried to put it in gear while plugged in.

Basically this. I’ve seen loads of F-250s towing horse trailers and boats, but most F150s I see are pulling uhauls, jet skies, and trailers, and are likely going 50 miles or less, round trip

I always just go straight to the “latest” section, never to the home page.

Every pound of battery you add to the trailer is one pound less of capacity for the trailer. My car hauler has two 3500 pound axles, so the gross capacity is 7000 pounds. That includes the ~2000 pounds the trailer itself weighs, so the actual capacity is ~5000.

I tow. (car on open trailer or a 7800# camper trailer...)

The real answer here is that if you tow larger trailers longer distances, this probably isn’t the truck for you (though the Hybrid F-150 probably is).

But the reality is that for the *three quarters of a million* F-150s sold last year, there’s an incredibly large number of owners that don’t tow anything, or tow very…

They need a way to pay someone to fix the site.

A lot of guesswork in this article. Mooching for clicks ...

I kind of just want to say “who thought it wouldn’t be?” The reality is that any electric vehicle that will also need to tow heavy things a long way should actually be a range extended hybrid like the Chevy volt. Except in the case of they F-150 it could have been some kind of small compound turbocharged diesel with…