You say testicles, but I say.....MINI BATMOBILE!

Speed Jowls!

I’m leaning towards supporting your views on this.

It’s a vehicular hermaphrodite.

Not technically a “car”, but I still disagree....

Well, yeah. At least for the duration of your mulch-buying trip. I wasn’t applauding their design, just saying there are ways to deal with it.

Or you know, if you’re halfway intelligent, you take the spare out beforehand, and stow it in the cab.

The bed-trunk is why. If you fold down the tailgate, you have to bend/reach over it to get into the bed-trunk. Opening the gate sideways solves that.

Auto-playing video bad.

Here’s a thought.

I can’t imagine replacing *any* of that glass could be done without a massive, massive stack of cash.

Hilarious

“Flew when parked.”

I owned one of these, way back in the early 80s. Column shift, and all-around awesome....except for the bench seat. It was literally a piece of plywood with about 1/2” of foam padding, wrapped in vinyl. And I think that was stock. I still walk funny because of that truck.

The white-scarfs have always been a problem for the air force. They have habitually gone for the “high-dollar fighter planes first” mindset, and everything else gets the leftovers. Fingers crossed that they wake up to the fact that they need the complete package.

“Who wants to spend nearly six figures on a rustic primative vehicle. Oh they put leather seats in it? oh ok that makes it worth it.”

I can not give you enough stars.

It won’t be the *sole* future, and it won’t apply to say, the production of a huge run of Reasonably Priced Generic Sedans.

It certainly is, at the current moment. But this isn’t a production car, it’s more of a proof-of-concept. Just another baby step towards...

If we’re not back by dawn, call the president.