Neither are trucks for doing truck things. Small beds, huge liftover heights, crappy towing. You want offroad? Polaris, Yamaha, Honda and others have dedicated vehicles faster and more fun. This TRX and the Raptors are BroDozers daddy can just write a check for.

Actually, double fuck Europe. Here are the least efficient vehicles sold in every size class. Notice any patterns?

And we didn’t come out with the utterly complicated and thoroughly unnecessary W16:

Any time Europe wants to make fun of America for being a rude, selfish nation, all they need to do is point to the TRX.

Still, one of my favorite videos. Found it before jalopnik thought it was cool

Vote Democrat.

Driving in hilly terrain, this definitely works. And the effect is even more pronounced if you’re towing something. Your speed will vary a lot when doing this and it can be annoying in heavy traffic. Cruise control only wants to make sure you are going the same speed all the time with no thought about minimizing use…

Even using your close to ideal case, including buying used vs new, you are saving $0.13/mile and paid $22,000, meaning you need to drive ~170,000 miles to break even. That calculation is also assuming gas never goes down and electricity never goes up.

Buy a $60,000 EV to save $100/month in gas.

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Constipated Cars, Trucks, and SUVs

You’re not finding me disagreeing about those Charger drivers.

As a Wrangler owner, I agree.

Full Sized pick-up trucks with trailer hitches that can’t stay in their own lane or be contained to one parking spot. 

I expect hydrogen to remain a part of trucking into the future. I don’t expect it to remain hydrogen combustion — that’s woefully inefficient. I would expect them to migrate towards something like the Mirai where there is a hydrogen fuel cell onboard that generates electric energy, which is then dumped into a small,…

I was hoping that the sarcasm in my post made it clear all of the “alternative” saviors we hear about have massive issues, hydrogen included.

Right now they’re expensive and it takes more energy to make them than you get out of them. These are complaints you can level at BEVs though.

Oh good spot, thanks for pointing that out! Should all be fixed and readable now. 

Wouldn’t biodiesel/synthetic fuels be both less disruptive and likely less expensive in the long run?

Out here in the desert at the CO/UT border where i live ppl buy Rubicons and then tow their SxSs to the trails w/their 60k Jeep or Raptor or ZR2 or TRX. Never stops cracking me up.