What’s depressing is that in a sane world, he spends the *entire* call talking about how they’ve got manufacturing BEV’s leaned out better than any of the established companies, and can undercut all of them.
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The Maverick is definitely the tool for that job, and a different class of vehicle in general. Even though a lot of people will use a Tacoma for purposes a Maverick could accomplish, they really aren’t worth comparing.
Eh, I think there was something on here awhile ago about them regularly being out of service. Pretty sure there was a rash of photos of them getting hauled by tow trucks.
Kind of random, but this why I think arguments against capitalism should be nuanced and measured... because its so goddam easy. You don’t need to look that hard to find cases of a “free market” creating problems for itself that its either unable or unwilling to solve.
It’s kinda the same here in construction. The tradesmen who ride aren’t in Son’s of Anarchy, but they aren’t the guys from Wild Hogs either. It’s this big in-between area the rest of the world doesn’t realize exists.
Yeah, that’s kind of the point I’m making. I’m from a family and now work in an industry that’s contains many examples of the “traditional” customer base of riders. The problem is that even if that base stays strong, losing the crowd that was in it for the style might not save the company anyway.
I wonder what conversations were had about giving the LC the 3.4 V6 from the Lexus GX. That seems like the most obvious way to separate the 4R and LC, but something tells me if you actually gave people that option... nobody would buy the 4Runner.
Even though the roll-down rear windshield is awesome, I’d take the LC just for sake of the styling. The 4Runner has the most “GRRRRRRR I AM AN IMPORTANT PERSON AND YOU SHOULD TAKE ME SERIOUSLY!” face that has been set on anything smaller than a half-ton truck.
Kind of epitomizes the redundancy of this thing. The 4R was already supposed to be a LC Prado specifically made for the NA market, so there is no way they sell both at the same time here without cannibalizing each other.
The Lighting probably would worked better if they actually made the 40 grand version. The only way to rationalize your EV pickup just being a normal one with batteries shoved into all the open space in a BOF ladder chassis is that it should have been stinkin’ cheap.
There’s no precision, it isn’t scheduled, and it’s barely railroading!
The “jellybean” is just a*total* commitment aero, and I honestly kinda appreciate that. It’s the unironic, literal version of the meme: “you may not like it, but this is what peak [aerodynamic] performance looks like.”
Two separate thoughts here, two of which that sort of conflict with each other:
Everyone has confidence in the product except the guy who actually built it.
Good lord, do I feel for this. I’ve had a lot of interesting stops in a relatively brief (10 years) in construction, but the worst field to work in, bar none, was hospitals. Because the “line goes up” dumbasses have identified healthcare as the biggest racket on earth since fossil fuels, what is traditionally the…
1000%: The point is that it’s deliberately trying to impersonate some kind of DOD vehicle without any practical purpose. There’s no reason why the front fascia should have like seven different shapes all at different depths, other than “grrrrrrr look at how manly i am!”
Screenplay Idea: They don’t catch up to this scheme until after the machinery is delivered, but the original “customer” has mysteriously disappeared. Now some recently promoted facilities manager who had always found his boss kinda “off” suddenly finds himself in the middle of gold smuggling operation.
the scene from Gone in 60 Seconds where Donny beats up the carjacker, but the latter is Andrew Tate calling this a cyber-attack:
2nd: Regretfully, I now have a conspiracy re: the Francis Scott Key Bridge I can actually get on board with...