I think honestly the best choice for a great deal of ppl is a basic f150 or Ranger or Maverick and then buy a SxS and tow it to the back country and use it that way.

hear hear - well said. I wonder if we live in the same neighborhood. :) 

This snippet is citing facts not in evidence “..but heavy-duty trucks are towing and hauling rigs first and foremost,”

Yes..this makes no sense. 15 minutes of pre planning would have gone a long way towards avoiding this hassle. 

I obviously didnt expect perfect fealty to the books but they are so, so, so far afield here that it has very little to do w/the books. I dont think i can continue w/it. 

eh.. i have a subie and i have a true 4x4. The subie is much better in the wet/snow/mud than the 4x4. KO2s on the 4x4 and blizzaks (as winter is coming) are on the subie.

I still surprisingly see Subies in 4wd trailheads and i see almost nothing else that is AWD anywhere near most of the rougher places i go in the mountains.

Recon looks cool! The Cherokee or whatever wagoneer seems like yet another too fast and too fat and too expensive SUV but whatever.

interesting.. i had actually never thought about how the tests are run/set up. 

The vast, vast majority of my miles driven has been with a manual so i just dont have much to compare to i guess.

Yeah.i think it offers a nice range of boy racer or cool 2 seat sports coupe. Can go either way depending upon preferences. 

Good question(s). Id be curious about this as well. 

ah, thats a good point. That many gears just didnt exist decades ago when i first started driving. 

This looks cool as hell. I havent driven one of these but i find that in the flesh they are very striking. To me at least.

With the Imani tech this is one of my favorite cars in GTA Online. I saw one of these in the flesh in Telluride a few weeks ago and it looked pretty damn sweet in person. As it should i guess. 

Fair! I really enjoyed the previous gen R, mind you, i just didnt love the styling. My young realtor had the last gen R and she let me drive it a few times and it was a blast.

probably because i am a boring middle-aged man i didnt love the previous version’s styling even though it was a lot of fun to drive. Youre right about the more subtle styling here. 

This looks amazing. Like a throwback to the Honda of hte 90s. 

Yes, this is it exactly. Executive sedan is the way to put it. If i needed one car to just cruise and drive it would probably be the Lucid. Just makes a Tesla look like a Kia Rio. 

i was excessively excited just by the front blinkers and how theyre incorporated into the happy headlights. Just a really well thought out vehicle, it seems.