corpus christi is an oil town. they let those fuckers poison their water and give them tons of tax breaks to let them do it. as big as it is the city is a dump. the best thing about corpus is that its got the highest per capita number of taco joints in the world. and most of them are really good.

amazing isn’t it? The government sacrificing the jobs of the public to get control of inflation, Why anyone thinks the government wants to help us is beyond me.

1st Gear: Ford F-150 Lightning Pro Prices Go BRRRRRR

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Don’t have to go back 100 years. Just drive about a 50 miles north of me and find Ezekiel and Hezekiah.

they kinda sucked at first, and electric cars were a thing back then too.

As a whole, the current BEV/ICE market is a very healthy variety & competition. We have Tesla already all in and essentially established now. VW/Ford/GM are well underway to go mostly in with either tangible production changes or factories in construction to meet that production. Hyundai/Kia/Toyota are slow players…

I really feel like people are missing the key point with respect to electric vehicles -- we’ve already reached a peak in terms of gasoline powered vehicles sold, and that’s only going to go down from here. Which means, petroleum companies have reached the peak in terms of how much gasoline they’re going to refine, and…

Exactly. That's why I eat tay-cos at Mexi-can restaurants. If you can't do something perfectly, it's not worth the attempt. 

Where I am the primary purpose of these (other than the cab-chassis rigs) seems to be to haul around one redneck and two Trump flags.

Right on, agreed. It’s a small world, we were just in Silverton CO last summer. We ran up to that ghost town, and then onto cross Engineer Pass, and head down into Ouray CO. I did all that in my ‘16 Titan XD (the one with the Cummins). Not being the first time wheelin’ in my Titan, but was one of my last. That’s…

Well, that tax loophole from the ‘00s (which I think was part of one of Bush’s tax cuts for the wealthy) that let people basically write off company vehicles is what led to hundreds of thousands driving around Excursions and Hummer H2s. So that didn’t help. After that, assembly-line country music took over and it…

at least i learned turo is an option :)

I don’t understand the issue with renting a car that’s not brand new. You’re not buying it. You’re not maintaining it. It’s transportation. 

That 2 liter 4 cylinder isn’t putting down 375 hp. That is the ICE + electric combined number. At first I was thinking Stellantis was going to give AMG a run for its money in a 2 liter turbo 4.

I’m sure the margins aren’t huge, but the higher trim levels are probably good and you’re getting young people into the brand.

Yea, it’s so dumb.

I did see a CRV trundling through some back trail in Death Valley driven by some elderly couple and was thinking this is going to end badly. I did stop them to see if they needed any help but they waved me on.

As silly as this might sound, no physical buttons for climate control is a major no for me.

I’m no Mustang guy, but I think it looks great. Smoothed out the shape from the last one, it now looks like a proper GT. That interior though, woof. Looks like a Bronco reject with its blocky shapes and tall screen.