It looks like there’s at least air going in to the supercharger. You can see the modified intake made with parts from the automotive department at Home Depot (fittingly the same aisle as the plungers, IIRC). One would assume there must be some means of air getting back out of the supercharger with some kind of…

“Something, something, someone else’s half-baked project...”

All I want out of an EV is normalcy.  That’s all I want out of any daily driver.

I’d be down with that.  Bring a little passion to the place and if it all tanks just float off into the sunset under my golden parachute.

Yes. An Escalade pickup, but a real pickup and not that Avalanche-based thing they used to do.

I proposed aiming higher than German luxury cars because I don’t think you can beat them at their game and to position lower crowds space with Buick and, sometimes it even seems, Hyundai/Kia.  In the past 40 years every single auto maker has moved up-market relative to what they made before... except Cadillac.

Look me in the eye and tell me that truck with a quad cab wouldn’t sell like crazy.

In the short term I see the market wanting to go that way anyways.  For Cadillac to pass it up is to leave money on the table.  I wonder what certification of a basically badge-engineered truck takes?

Basically an Escalade with a box. A real box. For the folks who want to point out they’re better (or worse with money) than the Denali owners, and a fantastic way to flex when towing your horse trailer.  Sell them in colours and with options unique to Cadillac to make them special.  Sell so damn many of them.

Yep, screw volume and go on markup alone. Make ‘em opulent, daring and expensive so the plebs can’t have them. Use Cadillac as a halo brand to ultimately sell more Buicks.

Called it.  I knew there was no way Ford could just drop all their cars without having tiny trucklets to fill the void.

My take: cars got too good. Nearly every car nowadays is better than most roads and better than most drivers. The ragged edge is now out of reach, and since that’s where most driving enjoyment lives it’s become almost irrelevant. IMO cars now sell on the specs in their brochures, including performance you’ll never use…

What blows is that nearly everyone who really wants this will wait for a used one, which won’t exist because nobody bought a new one.

Body-on-frame is clearly for the weird FWD diesel kit cars that will be based on this.  Is that a thing in India?  Can it be?

Right? There’s a door jamb inside the door jamb. It almost looks like you could take that rear quarter off and find a Z4 fender underneath. But you can’t, right? Right?

Story checks out.  I live in the land of full size pickups in every driveway.  Except mine, I have a hatchback because I spend all my money on things that aren’t my daily driver.

But if you’re going to build a small pickup, wouldn’t it make sense to make it small enough that it’s not stealing market share from your big pickup?  I’m not talking Chevy Tracker territory but something that would appeal to the people who won’t be able to get a Focus in a year or two.

Yeah but small pickups these days are still pretty damn big.  May as well go the whole hog, no?

Spoiler alert, the new Supra (Newpra?) is not for you and me.

Why does anyone want a Ranger Raptor? Or a Ranger for that matter? Aren’t they like 90% the size of a F150 and around thirty eight bucks cheaper?