The article also includes an interesting tidbit about margins. It’s interesting because automakers are always blaming low margins for discontinuing smaller vehicles. Toyota says its margins on the Tacoma are just fine

You can whine all you want, but the simple fact is that you have a 24 year old Tacoma and its still going strong makes other people want a Tacoma. How many 1996 Chevy S10s or Dodge Dakotas have you seen lately? Probably none, because they don’t last.

This is why you need good styling. This car is just ugly. Just like the Fiat 500L which is also a complete failure in design. The Jeep Renegade is the EXACT SAME VEHICLE as the 500L and they sell like gangbusters.

You know that’s like saying its the most fun tax forms you have ever been forced to fill out!

Is it just me, or does this commercial make the new gladiator look even more ungainly and simply fugly in its design?

...omitted a mandate that employers provide paid sick leave workers who become ill with covid-19...the latest covid relief package extends a tax credit available to businesses who do offer paid sick leave.

Yeah, if they were complaining about mechanicals they would be Ford owners.

Those people were not in office when the ford ranger, the topic of this tangential thread, was being manufactured.  I was being sarcastic.  Lets not get away from the central theme.

This isn’t gawker, I was being a little sarcastic. 20k in 1995 is 35k today. Technically, the trucks haven’t gotten a lot more expensive.

I’m blaming Obama, Bush, and Clinton for it. All bad, for sure. I don’t blame the orangutan because he couldn’t spell quantitative easing much less understand what it means.

Yeah, its terrible isn’t it? The government wants us to spend our money, not save it.

The irony is that chebby van is mechanically a Silverado in every way. The only difference is the body on top.

Sure he can, there are everywhere like cockroaches.  Its called the 1995-2012 FORD RANGER.

See, what you are missing is that with Obama Administration’s quantitative easing that 20k truck now costs 30k. Seriously, money is worth a lot less now.

She is pretty damned charming.  I can’t read her stuff without hearing her voice in my head.

Someone explain this to my GF, who can’t fall asleep unless her 2000 degree leg is touching me in some way.

I said one that ran, reliably.  I doubt that one qualifies.

This guy knows nothing about how cars work or about building relationships with his tire guy. I have never paid for a tire repair or rebalancing etc. I just use the same guy to buy tires from for the last 2 decades. He knows I give him good business and lots of friend referrals and he always treats me right. I have…

Take your upvote.

This car would literally melt in Florida or Arizona.  Can you imagine coming back to your car in the starbucks parking lot and finding your headlights melting away from the super black paint?