I don’t know about the rest of you, but I personally do a lot of driving in the face down, feet backward position. By “driving”, I mean massages and by “a lot” I mean I’ve paid for at least 14 Thai work visas over the last year.

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This is the Lexus...er..”Toyota” Alphard. It comes as a hybrid, so...screw you FCA and your saucy Pacifica. They made a sport version, called it the Vellfire....VELLFIRE for christsakes....

I don’t necessarily agree but I like your style...

* for “I am the spawn of Gundams”

Seriously, Toyota, take your fat ass Siennas back and BRING THIS SHIT OVER!

You know what a vehicle like this says to me? It says, “I have no time for purposeless crossover. I have no time for your generic minivans. I am the spawn of Gundams, the herald of an edgy and practical future in which street sheikhs ferry their harem of hoochie-mamas around in technopulence. My front grill is…

If it was about practically we’d all still be driving Dodge Darts with slant 6s. The first hotrods and muscle cars weren’t practical either much as we venerate them. Who >needs< 300+ hp in their daily driver? It’s about the ability to access excess. With our roads crumbling, the more rubber we lay on them, the better…

Sport truck loses the handling of a sport coupe . But you gain a bed.

I fit about 60% of my 2 bedroom apartment in my 04 Mach 1 and drove solo across to US after college. It’s all about figuring your loadout and leaving the big replaceable stuff behind.

I remember a first-generation Lightning just FLYING past me on a twisty road when I was still driving my Integra and I couldn’t believe how it cornered.

Gran Turismo 5 had a great explanation for why Americans love and buy performance trucks like the Lightning. They said that most teenage boy’s first vehicles are trucks, so finding a medium between having a sports/muscle car and having something with utilitarian capabilites was smart and practical move for both…

“have limited function outside of their desire to go fast”

While I agree with the majority of your post (mostly on the “Pros” side of the pros and cons), some of the attraction to this thing is SPECIFICALLY the fact that it’s a gussied up truck outfitted to do something it was never meant to do. For a lot of people, including a hell of a lot more of the jalops than will…

This 100%.

Trucks arent tools, the same way a track car isnt just a “tool” for getting around a circle as fast as possible. Its a big blown v8 rwd sledgehammer, with attitude.

Sometimes you can only own one automobile. You can check a lot of boxes with sports trucks.

I go back and forth on the “performance street truck” argument more often than a tennis ball at Wimbledon. On the one hand you’ve got a basic tool gussied up to do something it was never intended to do. On the other hand most performance cars aren’t really that practical in the first place. I’d say a performance…

I wonder if this scales? If so, would the applications for a SPCCI engine work in the light truck sector? Mazda has made no hints that it’s interested in getting back into the truck game, after the B-Series. That being said, an efficient, powerful, non-diesel engine in a small bodied truck would be a wonderful…

Finally, the only logical choice to go with the following automotive abortion: