Always surprises ppl when i tell them my Outback has more clearance than their trucks. 

Yes, my work truck (F-250) has the 6.2. It sucks. This is an overhead cam engine with poor low end torque. Previous LS powered chevy was a substantially better truck engine.  

Fair enough. I’m in Chicago and my uncle has his own tow and repair business. He has always preferred a Cummins I6 in his trucks above all else but filters that need to be in modern diesel exhaust systems need to be replaced CONSTANTLY. He has a handful of the old triton V10's which he says get the job done fine. I…

You’d think a 1/2 ton is overkill until you load up a standard truck with a full pallet of 20lb pavers, 15 bags of sand, and miscellaneous other stuff.

The diesel engine is close to $10,000 more than the gas, the 7.3L will likely be more like a $1000 upcharge.

I see lots of Superduty style pickups being used to haul 3-4 vehicle car carriers nowadays.

Yeah it’ll probably heatsoak

Yes, although the deal was that Ford would lead the engineering on the 10 speed used on RWD/4WD vehicles. And GM is the one leading the engineering on the 9 speed transverse tranny they are jointly developing for passenger FWD/AWD cars.

This is the same 10-speed chiefly developed by Ford, yes? 

Nobody. NOBODY got 20 mpg from the 8.1, especially towing. I think he might hope for 12.

Or just make their luxury vehicles actually luxury.

China is slowing down...

Drifting hasn’t really been a sole import scene for a long long time. Lots of LS engines, Mustangs, whatever. It’s mostly about what you can piece together locally.

(Maybe?) Hot take: I think there’s such a thing as too much power. People put too much emphasis on straight line speed on cars that aren’t solely built for that. There’s a reason we love manuals even though their counterparts shift faster and move that speedo needle up faster. Driving experience counts for a lot, and…

The other part of me acknowledges that BMW’s engineers just don’t know how to build a chassis that can handle that kind of power.

And yet despite the deficit in power, the M3/M4 was always competitive performance-wise against its main competitors, the C63 and Giulia Quadrifoglio.

I see you fell into the media driven gullible lot. Just bought my first new car and first non -BMW in years, a Golf R.

GM has a seriously petrified boner for Ford.

I don’t understand how the eff GM thought they could get away with this.  In Consumer Reports brand reliability report, GM is near the bottom.  Yes, Consumer Reports reliability data is far from perfect, but it is pretty clear that if a brand is at the bottom of CRs rating that it isn’t the most reliable car. 

They haven’t been the “Standard of the World” for 40+ years.