I really wanted one of these hybrid Tacomas and had planned on buying a TRD pro when they announced them a year ago. Then the pricing came out for the gas ones. I had talked to my sales guy about a guess on pricing and we both figured that that hybrid was going to a similar cost up to what it was in the Tundra and…

What I can’t wrap my head around is how bad does your credit score have to be in order to get a loan with an interest rate over 10%? Did they buy those vehicles at Rent-a-Center or something? Seriously that’s crazy when normal auto loan rates are 6%-7% around here. 

There’s already a bunch of these “lifestyle” cruises for nudists and swingers so why is this particular one newsworthy? If a bunch of grown ass adults want to go be naked together let them have at it. Now the poor staff on the other hand that’s got to be hell for them because it’s not like this thing is going to be…

This is a really dumb article, it could have just as easily been called vehicles with the biggest fuel tanks. Now if you talk about cost per mile then maybe it’s a little more interesting but not a lot since that’s just vehicles with the worst fuel economy. 

There are 3 things I won’t do without anymore after having them. The first two are because I live in the Upper Midwest.

I’ve driven the non hybrid Tacoma with that new turbo 4 and it’s fun to drive, didn’t really notice much in the way of turbo lag. I would imagine the hybrid would make it considerably better. 

Have you cross shopped a full size vs mid size truck? I just bought a new one a month ago and looked really hard at the mid size. I’ve owned several of both and really like the mid size trucks. If you compare msrp for similar spec trucks a full size is about $10k more but when you factor in incentives for them (and…

If you want to compare XLT to XLT that’s fine, it’s less than $1000 difference between the two. 

I don’t think you can get a lighting without the crew cab, maybe I’m wrong and they’re all dual motors so I think a 4x4 is a comparable comp. On the Ford website the XLT is $55k vs $54k when you compare the lightning starting price to the gas XLT (supercrew with 4x4). I think those are a comparable truck as far as…

I mean before discounts you can get a F150 Lightning Pro with the standard range battery for just a little less than a Gas XLT (Crew Cab 4x4) so I’d say it’s already happening. 

While you’re not wrong on this being plenty of truck for most people it’s going to come down to pricing. If you’re comparing sticker price these things look really appealing. The problem is nobody buys a full size for sicker but getting a discount on a midsize is harder. When these things with similar options are…

You just have to keep in mind before buying one of these things that even if you’ve got one that isn’t beat to hell it’s going to cost you about $1/mile in maintenance costs to actually drive it and properly take care of it.

If environmental impact and lower emissions is the only goal then absolutely a PHEV is better than an BEV but not on the individual level. If you look at the lifetime carbon footprint on a BEV then it’s going to be better compared to a PHEV but I can build 3-5 PHEV batteries for every BEV battery. If that PHEV has an…

The EV problem is and has been for a while the lack of public chargers in rural areas. I could charge in several places here I live but where my parents live the closest publicly available charger is 30 miles away. If you’ve got a garage with sufficient power that’s not an insurmountable problem but there are a whole…

I’d really hate to see AM gone, mostly because I still listen to sports on it when I’m driving.

I more or less agree with Toyota on BEV market share. I say that as I’m sitting in a lessons learned workshop on BEV test vehicles. I’m eyeball deep in the development of them. There are a lot of places where a BEV is the best solution for all of the available powertrains but there are also a whole bunch of…

I spent most of the time in the bathroom of a flight between Beijing and Chicago once because I got salmonella at a hot pot place in China. There was more leg room in there than in coach. 

Either a 3rd Gen Tacoma or a 5th Gen 4Runner.

I was on a cruise with my wife last spring, had a stop in Ensenada. I think 7 or 8 people forgot about the weed they had on them and ended up in Mexican jail. Whoops.

If you look at a bone stock Fox body and compare it to a modern car, sure it sucks but there’s isn’t a single car from the 90's that is good compared to a modern one. That being said if you want a cool old car with a bunch of parts available that is only as much of a money pit as you want it to be I don’t think you…