My entire debate team used to watch this at the beginning of each year to indoctrinate the newbies to a team-held belief that utilitarianism is ALWAYS a terrible fucking ethical argument.

Having driven exactly 4 pickups in my life, an old, manual Hilux, a new diesel Hilux, an auto Navara (diesel) and my cousins swanky new (diesel again!) dsg Amarok, I can not understand why anyone would want a manual pickup, it's pointless, lord knows what a huge American one with a manual would be like to drive!

They didn’t do it to #savethemanual they did it to have a cheaper advertised price. They don’t actually care about the manual and your attachment to it at all.

Please explain how that’s a reasonable excuse. The interior of a comparable Tacoma looks way, way better and it’s verging on a decade old. How Chevy managed to make their interior look that shitty in 2015 is beyond my comprehension.

“Cheap” doesn’t have to mean “old looking”. See: Kia’s entire lineup.

I guess I’m one of those rare people who, when they buy new - keeps it at least a decade or more. For me, resale value is never even in the though process. By the time I sell a car, chances are people are going to show up with cash on hand. Cash that they already had lying around. In the dryer. or perhaps on the…

Difference being those S10s are legitimately simple and lightweight and more fuel-efficient than their slushboxed brethren.

Thanks for stopping by John. As a classic car enthusiast and one who tends to own cars for 7-10 years, future functionality is an interesting topic to me. What is the direction of the industry with regard to making these systems viable for at least 10-12 years? That seems like a reasonable life span for today's…

There is no such thing anymore. Automatics are too good, and vehicles are too heavy. The economy argument for the manual transmission truck is dead, even before you figure the overhead cost of developing it spread over the small number of units to be sold. And the illusion of economy will not fool anybody.

It’s quite simple:

I think your right but i dont understand why GM would purposely do this. Myself as an example. 24 years old male, new job and looking to buy a new truck. Currently own a Tacoma but would like something newer and along the same lines but I have to have 4x4 and a manual. So far my only option is the new tacoma and if I…

I’m not trying to be snarky, but I absolutely must call it when I see it: this is not professional grade writing. This wouldn’t even receive a B in a high school English class. Where are the editors around here? Time to up the game, Jalopnik, because I’m not really buying what you’re selling anymore. There are amateur…

Because GM.

Just throw the Corvette’s 7-speed in there. That’s all truck running gear anyway, right?

But the Colorado is trying so hard to be modern in every other area that something just feels off.

Read the article ya haters. If it doesn’t come in 4WD, can’t tow more than a wood chipper, and doesn’t let you shift at your desired rate, then what’s the point?

That interior looks like it’s from 20 years ago... That’s abysmal.

GM finds a way. I sat in a new CTS and a new ATS recently and I the stitching on the leather was inconsistent. Little details that add up to a lot of disappointment.

It’s kinda like when I would intentionally do a bad job washing dishes so my mom wouldn’t ask me to do it anymore.

I know this is nit-picky, but how the hell does the fabric on the seat on a new car already look this loose? Even the low end Hyundai Accent’s seat wouldn’t look this bad after a couple of years.

As somebody who has owned/ridden a stock Harley, a modified Harley, and a custom bike I can attest that the difference between a “custom” Harley motorcycle and a fully custom bike is night and day. My custom bike is like a leather glove, comforting my backside on rides of anywhere from fifty to five hundred miles…