Maybe they just WANT them. Is that possible? I wear a North Face jacket because I wanted it. I had no intention of climbing Everest. I also bought a rugged pair of shoes because I wanted them and not because I planned to hike miles.
Likewise, should people only buy sports cars if they intend to head to the track?…

Couldn’t you apply most of that logic to people driving Accords or Camrys? They’re not enjoyable on the commute to work and mostly have 2 or less people on board. Are you suggesting everyone should only drive 1 seaters to work each day? Maybe they should just walk\run\cycle to work.

Great article, and provides a lot of good examples of why the AV dreams are so overblown. There are so many edge-use cases that would completely bewilder an AV that my mind boggles to imagine a world where they would even be remotely feasible outside of a controlled-access highway. How do you program an AV to approach…

but the trucks get a particularly bad rep because they make everyone’s life worse. A giant truck that takes up 2 parking spots and drives 30 over on the freeway is a legitimate hazard to everyone else

Oh, look, everyone. Always-Brings-Up-Penis-Extenders-Guy is here.

No, people who drive things we don’t specifically like are all idiots who are compensating for something. 

Can’t we just all drive along? 

4th Gear: I know we got you all pumped for decades that the Dems were in it for the American worker but we’ve decided that’s a bad optic now as its too conflicting with our love of illegal immigration. So sit back and take it in the shorts because “that’s a good thing” and not really worth our time.

Hey if you say so, it must be true right?

Your criticism is an indictment of luxury vehicles in general, not just trucks. One could just as easily say that an S class is no better than a Camry at “car things” but people buy them anyways.

The Clarkson act is getting old, isn’t it? As if a “journalist” can’t figure out why these are attractive and aspirational to people who actually do things outside of congested cities.

For me, almost everything a pick up can do, a van can do better.

same reason they dont sell many coupes anymore. 

“It makes 755 HP from the LT5 engine, whose supercharger consumes about 100 HP at full boost. “So,” Lee said, “our engine is really making 855 HP at the crank, since 100 HP is used to drive the supercharger.”

Oh hell no. I love that my F31 has a wheel I can operate without having to take my eyes off the road and not some garbage touchscreen like every other car. IIRC the new ones also have touchscreens anyways -- tactical controls are infinitely safer and they will lose my business permanently if they go to a system where…

I may be a minority, but I’m totally ok with a control dial. I hate fingerprints on my screens, and I like tactile feedback and buttons. I could also reference Mazda’s studies that found that people unconsciously move their steering wheel every time they go to touch the screens, so to prevent that, they made a control…

Connected, perhaps, but to say the entire country is turning into some type of theocracy or dictatorship is just rubbish. 

And will actually sell

The X Class wouldn't have done well here. It would've fought for sales with the other bottom feeders like the Honda Ridgeline and Nissan Titan. 

Indeed. A buddy of mine in Corpus Christi started dating a young woman from Long Island, NY. When they drove up to D/FW to see me one weekend she nearly kissed the ground when she got out of his truck, lol.