Whole lotta dumb statements being made today..

That may be one of the dumbest things I've seen written.

You realize the Raptor is pretty much the antithesis of a "stripped down" truck, right? It's basically a 50k half ton truck.

Seriously. I wonder how many writers and comment-jockeys on here have actually driven a diesel. They're not "fun" cars. Their behavior is tantamount to the opposite of what an enthusiast car is. Lots of torque in a very small powerband down low, and then PBBBBBBttt.. nothing as the revs build. Long gearing designed to…

Gap coverage. Pretty much any insurance carrier that doesn't have their name spelled out in their phone number offers it for very little extra.

Once you move beyond driving 3-4k shitboxes, you start to see that financing makes perfect sense. With practically every bank offering 0-1.9% rates for pretty much anything, it doesn't make any sense to drop 15-20k liquid.

You can get a balloon loan from practically every manufacturer's financing wing, heck, most CUs offer them as well. Not really a new thing. It's how they rope in the "Ooooh, leasing is bad!" crowd that can't realistically make a 6-700/month payment.

They had a flatbed.

MAAATH IS HAAAARD.

Ah. Still sounds brutal. CC in a uhaul is about the worst thing in the world.

You did it pretty wrong then. Good lord that sounds like an awful drive.

Because people buy a lot of these.

Looking at Sebring and Austin from last season, Muscle Milk was 3 seconds off the pace of the privateer LMP1 cars, they had nothing for Rebellion at Petit Le Mans. They were nearly 6 seconds off the pace of the Audi and Toyota efforts. Pickett and crew were good at being a big fish in a very, very small pond that was…

They don't exactly give them away in a box of crackerjack in Europe.

Dude, do you read this site? Jalopnik loves boring FWD cars, diesels and station wagons. Automotive Vanilla.

AWD and enough ground clearance to deal with Northeast Snowstorms, and a top to drop when the weather gets nice. Seems to make sense to me.

An off color joke about his taste in wives and girlfriends. Hint, his was about 17-18 years younger than him.

Eh, used to be offered with a manual box in the US. I've driven one at a dealer a year or two ago. Probably a case of the "enthusiast" trimmed cars rotting on dealer lots like usual.

Dude, that's his wife, I know he liked 'em young and all..

No level 5, Oak isn't running a full season, and Speedsource is about 6 seconds off the pace. Also no "LMP2" class as they're all lumped together with the DPs as "P".