First Gear: The strong truck segment demand brings to light a fascinating mash up of demograpics, rural vs. urban infection rates, and the political divide.

I have a truck. I don’t absolutely need it, but it’s nice to have for when we haul yard stuff, or go to our friends place up the mountain. Chevy 4x4, basic model, nothing fancy, but it will go all day and except for a starter, hasn’t let me down yet.

4th gear:

Even better, BMW doesn’t even have a factory in AL, Justin was just desperate to take a shit on it for no reason.  2nd time in 2 weeks he’s claimed Spartanburg was in the wrong state.

I live and grew up in the Northeast, but I still found it really obnoxious how you took an unwarranted dump all over Alabama right at the beginning of the article. In fact, I skipped the entire rest of the article and came down here to tell you that lazy plays on tired stereotypes about dumb hicks from the South is a…

Neutral:  None.  I don’t want to see any car company get nationalized.  The most I want to see is emergency financing that might involve the government takes a temporary stake until the crisis is past... like what was done with GM and Chrysler in 2008

The amount of socialists in this comment section is too damn high.

which company would you want to see nationalized?

BMW says the dividends are for past results, not its current standing. And I truly, sincerely applaud the FT for including this quote, which invites you to feel bad for, of all people, the shareholders

As much as I despise Musk (but not Tesla), I am really glad that I’m not a business owner right now. Every crevice of the economy is affected. People’s entire businesses decimated. It’s crushing. Musk has a huge platform to sound off his loud mouth, but I am willing to bet (because I also read news and have it on good…

I don’t get the “enthusiast” hate for trucks. They should love these things! They’re RWD/4WD, can haul/tow a ton of weight (good for project cars), usually have fairly powerful engines, and are very roomy and practical. Everyone always gushes about how great the Panther bodies were because they were V8, RWD, BOF, and…

I mean, how exactly is it really effecting you? I’ve seen people in hatchbacks take up two parking spaces. I can’t see around 18 wheelers, yet I don’t have a wreck. These issues existed before trucks became common place, why is it an issue now? 

So your telling me that if I had $40k to spend, its great to buy this Mustang that seats 2 humans and 2 mini humans and gets 15c/25h mpg but its TERRIBLE that I buy a F150 that is $40k, seats 5 to 6 adult humans, and gets 21c/28h mpg?

“I care about sporty handling.”-Also something most car buyers never say.

So much this. I’ve hauled spare engines, transmissions, tall potted plants, and all kinds of stuff in my old Sport Trac. I would never have done any of that in a minivan. Just the risk of oil or wet soil dripping onto the interior would have made it untenable.

I’ve noticed the same thing, unless it’s a 10 year old hatchback or compact single cab pick-up, they seem to hate the auto industry.  

This. I really wish David or Andrew were writing all the content here. They seem to be the only balanced automotive viewpoints of the writing staff. Its like everyone else hates cars or car culture. I have always loved Jalopnik for its irreverence and counter culture attitude, but it seems like most of the writers…

Do trucks and SUV skirt CAFE? I thought only HD vehicles did. The trucks in this article are surely primarily half ton full size light duty, i.e the 1500 and F150 class. 

Trucks aren’t the penalty boxes that they used to be. Even as late as the 00s, trucks were a decent compromise: they had less interior space, they were slow, they had terrible, bouncy rides, they drank gasoline, and they were pretty loud. Just overall, they were terrible.

This is a Truck Yeah article right?