Depends on the bag.

Even when you look at the USA’s involvement in WW2, if you asked a Nazi about it, they would say the USA was part of the ‘baddie’ group... because from their perspective, they were the ‘good guys’.

I dig you’re view and have considered a wagon or SUV many times over a comparable truck, but I personally see some utility with a bed you just can’t get with an enclosed area.

Yeah cause antifa and BLM are notorious for storming state legislatures.

Tough to feel sympathy for such a transparent effort to skirt a law when building them in the US would have not run afoul of this problem.

Don’t forget:

Transit Connects have always been built/imported from Turkey for the NA market. Full size Transit vans are built in Kansas City MO.

Not sure why Ford didn’t just leave the seats in and let the end user decide where to dispose of those bench seats. Personally, I’d have wanted a cargo van w/a seat and sliding door…

I think they started building some in the US a few years back. But large companies always find ways to avoid cost and “technically” get around laws, importing and stripping them likely much more economical then setting up a production plant, and someone signed off on the risk management of the government going after…

So... what you’re saying is that a lot of the truths we cling to, depend greatly on our own point of view?

the onion should just do actual news for a few weeks and see if anyone notices the difference.

I like it... but then again, my mentor once referred to Avatar as, “The story of a heroic project manager facing setbacks by blue hippies.”

You mean if five or six years ago one were to have seen something like;

What? That’s not the way the books describe the rebels post-death star ii at all. Are you mad that the movies didn’t take the time to describe the rebels’ government plans?

Seriously the Onion really just needs to shut down now because satire is impossible with the way the actual news cycle looks.

“Are we the bad guy?”

Gone in 60 Minutes, starring a geriatric Nic Cage.

The often zip-tie the proximity fobs right to the brake lever/mirror stem, or have them in the saddlebags.  You can walk up and start just about any bike on the floor if it has fuel in it.

After the first news story broke and showed just how easy it could be, I’m not surprised that copycats would try their hand at it.

How I’m picturing the thieves:

This is just HD’s latest attempt to keep the “outlaw” image alive for younger riders.