The *smart* contractors I know universally drive vans, not pickup trucks. 

Based on the experience of literally everyone I know who owns a relatively late model pickup, sure, they will last a long time - as long as you keep pouring money into the damned things.

Truck sales reflect the perverse incentives of the US auto market where the “footprint rule” and the “chicken tax” militate against modest sized trucks and the rejection of the minivan, station wagon and sedan have pushed everyone into trucks or pseudo trucks. 

If we’re honest its safe to say at least 75% of the guys I see driving these huge things barely use them as trucks at all. And on top of that these aren’t the same trucks that granbpa drove. They are so big now they look ridiculous. As in the beds are now so far off the ground now you need a damned ladder just to get…

San Pedro used to be a cool spot, the fish market, friendship bell. Off Gaffey st was a rough area though.

If you’re a non-union employee and don’t have a contract that states otherwise, it’s entirely legal to fire you at any time for any reason(other than protected things like gender/race/disability etc. )

But Wes, the AWD on my forester let’s me pull out of that greasy parking lot more quickly so that I can cut off grandma rushing home to feed her cats that fancy new wet food she bought at the grocery store. Without that AWD I would just be spinning my tires!

know history. That was a sales pitch just like greenland is not very green.

Can we please stop perpetuating the myth that AWD (as used in economy crossovers) provides any actual function or benefit beyond adding drag, weight, and complication?

My MAGA effing brother in law tried to convince everyone at dinner that the Nazis were leftist and no different than antifa and BLM. Gods this country is F#(ked. 

Modern Mazdas do not have this issue. My wife’s 2018 CX-5 doesn’t have a spot of rust anywhere.

I live across the border in Ontario, and my 10-yo Mazda2 is still plenty clean, no noticeable bubbling. For that matter, as much as second gen 3's are all over the place here, almost all of them still look good too. 1st gen 3's and Proteges could look like they’d been hauled out of the North Atlantic by their fifth…

Mazda’s rust issues were solved years ago. I see more rusted out Dodge Rams than Mazdas in Ohio.

Honestly, “bored” isn’t a reason to sell a car. I know we are Jalops, but the fact is that 90% of driving is boring and you don’t need an interesting car for it. Use the Subby for the boring drives to and from work, the boring drives to the store, the boring long slongs to family. It’s reliable and capable and will do…

These stupid things. I could provide some decent reasons as to why, but whenever I see them, I get irrationally angry.

GO FUCK YOURSELF.

Not a car, but a bike. Bike brand. Harley-Davidson. Let 2024 be the year Harley finally brubbrubbrubs off to the great junkyard in the sky. They can just pull back and focus on their real growth area, branded merchandise.

Let’s take all the German SUV “sports coupes”, fill a ravine with them, and produce no more. Overpriced clown cars with cryptic marketing, causing eyeball damage across the world.

The ad is full of shit. This car was sold on BaT in October for $11,486.