It’s not turbo lag, that doesn’t even really exist anymore. Ford programs its truck transmissions very, very far in the direction of fuel economy, which makes them very excited about shifting up, and very reluctant to shift down. You can correct this simply by putting the transmission in sport, pushing the tow button,…

The 7.3L powerstroke absolutely does not have an EGR system. It was not required on Diesel engines in class 2+ trucks until around 2003.  The only emissions controls on a 7.3l Diesel is the intake air pre-heater (cuts down on white smoke at idle in the cold).  The 6.0l powerstroke definitely has an EGR system along…

Don’t laugh-I saw that in New Zealand! On dirt-you didn’t know the direction until you pulled on the track! 

I have a nice idea how to fix this “problem”. Exactly 5 minutes before the qualifying/race starts a coin is flipped. The coin decides if the oval is going to be driven clockwise or counterclockwise. The cars cannot be modified in any way after the direction has been decided.

It looks like there’s a front differential, so either the system failed or he’s too poor to do the lift all the way and there’s a Bluetooth driveshaft in play.

That was true years ago… modern trucks have enough weight in the rear to handle snow fine.

This is one of those car-guy-isms that gets repeated over and over again but I’ve never seen any real actual data. People will go on and on about rally-car-this and my-grandpa-always-said that but no one has ever actually thrown down.

I think it actually depends. If there’s little enough snow that you can cut through and get to the pavement with narrow tires, then that’s better. However, if it’s super deep, or the pavement below is just pure ice anyway, then I think you’re better off with wide tires that can distribute your weight across the snow.…

Good A/T tires with the mountain/snowflake symbol are acceptable in snow. I’ve done multiple winter rallies up here in Canada on them and never been stuck. They aren’t as good as dedicated winters, especially on ice, but they are far, far better than all seasons and about on par with ‘all weather’ tires.

As stupid as it is to have low profile tires on a big truck, the tread on those tires looks decent enough to be able to navigate that snow. My question is why would you lift a 2WD truck? What obstacle can you clear with just a rear open diff that needs that much ground clearance? Alas I think the neon camo pattern…

I find his mannerisms to be exceptionally annoying and borderline obnoxious; you’re not alone.

Yep. Or another one like “Our Man In Japan” only somewhere else.

I’ve often argued that the best Top Gear episodes eliminated the studio entirely and did a long form film, and The Grand Tour proved to be exactly the same. Especially since the studio bits of the latter seasons of TG were almost always the worst parts of any episode, and were absolutely the worst parts of GT.

I loved CF waaaay more than I expected. I think part of it was it really allowed Jeremy to be an incompetent oaf without seeming so scripted. Plus it was really eye-opening how difficult and financially ruinous small scale farming can be.

I’d love to see another series of James May’s cooking show.

I have to admit that these three still have a lot to give, and I love the fact that Amazon has gone away from the Top Gear 2 format they had early on in The Grand Tour.

celebrating a half-remembered, half-imagined era when the owners of publications actually gave two shits about their writers and the subjects they wrote about.

I feel like both the article and all the commenters are doing an excellent of job of completely missing why the Titan never sold well. They were not good trucks. I continually laugh at how between the writers for Jalopnik and the commenters you all cannot understand the truck market to save your lives.

How do unhelpful and untrue comments like this get posted and I am almost always in the grays? I’m going to keep complaining until I’m not in the grays anymore.

As much as I like to root for an underdog, I don’t think it deserves better.