being poor is expensive

So much misinformation to unpack here. Pulling out my soapbox...

Standing out in Alaska means 1) not getting a pickup of any sort and 2) not getting a GM SUV. And does anyone (as a single person) really want to DD a Flex?

When you’re a grownup and you love something, you look at it—and yourself—honestly.

I feel like this is an answer to a question no one is asking. The only people who buy manual cars, at least stateside, are people who are looking specifically for the entire experience. I equally don’t see someone who would otherwise buy an automatic car switching to this novelty. It seems like the worst of both…

The one where a manual transmission had far too few sensors to go wrong

Hey, if it lets one-legged people drive manuals I’m all for it.

Remember, all us old farts responding here lived through the “good old days.” I’ll wager there isn’t a single reply from anyone ejected into oncoming traffic/trees, impaled by the steering wheel/random sheet metal, or rolled over by the car your made a dozen rotations in.

i like that they didn’t make any stupid experiments design wise and just made a regular old box truck electric.

Look, kid - we can’t ALL grow up to be long-haul trash collectors, making those lonely pickups between Alliance and Grand Island on Nebraska’s desolate State Highway 2.  Some of us just have to haul refuse on The Intra-City Run...

Not at all. They were well known for their 6 Speed Javier in earlier years. 

Nah man, that’s a Matra-Simca Hyena.

A Honda Avengorghini?

To be fair, the people who had their vehicles dropped on them by HF jackstands are not available for comment.

Exactly. You don’t have a problem until you have a big one.

The amount of damage they cause in accidents might start deterring people, insurance companies charge based on that kind of thing and trucks cause A LOT of damage when they run into stuff.

I wish pickup trucks were just pickup trucks instead of 7,000lb luxo-barge container ships. I want my truck to be affordable, durable, simple, practical, utilitarian.

The red warning light would be only slightly less visible under a red dome than in its’ stock condition. The green one would all but disappear, depending on how saturated the red coloring of the dome is/originally was, since the red and green lenses between them would filter out almost all the bulb’s emitted light.

Oohhh, a forward control Landie, where the crumple zone is the other driver's FACE!