It’s just nice to know that the “managing editor” is human and could really use a managing editor.

Every BMW is overpriced, as is every pickup. There are people, in the year of our Lord 2021, spending a hair under $60,000 to get cloth seats in a F-150. You know how many people don’t even make $60k in an entire year? About half the country. 

Agreed. Can we please have crack pipe back for today?

Oh, weird the guy with the V10 pun in his burner acct’s name prefers the pickup with a Viper powertrain

Sorry Tacoma owner. Your nearly 16 year old vehicle has depreciated from new, no matter what your friends on the forum tell you.

This was actually one that should have had the 4.7 and had the 5.5. I’m one of those unwashed masses who buys old cars, closer to the bottom of their depreciation curve.

You ever been on a cruise, Erin? Don’t knock it ‘till you’ve tried it. I really enjoy cruises. They’re a great way to have fun for a few days, meet some interesting people, and visit two or three different countries. And there’s nothing quite like sipping a morning macchiato on a private balcony, watching the ocean as…

Interesting story about ordering a Ford pickup: My dad ordered a 2011 F-150 Lariat Ecoboost. He had never ordered a vehicle before but he was absolutely certain of the options he wanted and pulled the trigger on a special order. He got a 4x4 3.5ecoboost with the 3.15 rear end, a bench seat, and nav. You couldn’t get a…

IDK if this is still true, but at one point in time Mercedes would do some super crazy stuff if you ordered it. I remember shopping for a used S550 and found one that actually had the larger V8 from a previous model year. The VIN checked out as the year advertised and everything, and when I pulled the build sheet, the…

Can confirm. There are even regional restrictions on color combos and trim permutations. 

For sure, Rivian has a puncher’s chance of making it. But I’m willing to bet that someone buys their commercial vehicle business and the consumer pickups fall by the wayside after they deliver ~10k.

Now THAT is a well articulated reply by a reasonable person. Literally not being even a little bit sarcastic. It’s tough to type that without it coming across as sarcastic, too. But notice there is no <s> so you know that it’s not. You’re exactly right.

Oh I am! They’re the most likely of any of the current start-up crop to actually produce vehicles though, for sure. Rivian’s existence will look a lot like Fisker’s, but with a bigger back seat and fewer GM parts.

Most of the names of the six feet under companies escape me now. Solyndra was the most famous one that grabbed headlines because it was like half a billion dollars lost. Here in Nebraska there was one called Energy Pioneer Solutions and it was so clearly a corrupt dealing, nobody could believe they were getting away…

Not sure what is overly complicated about the government will throw money at things it wants to believe will happen.

A lot of car people (myself included) recognized that Lordstown is vaporware from the start. The Government though, the government is a case study of confirmation bias. They’ll believe anybody who says they’re going to make electric (what the gov’t wants) pickups (what consumers want) right here in America, with…

Honestly, we never stopped living as we had before. Had the inconvenience of masks at the grocery store and in airports but that’s about it. Didn’t have the choice with work, wife and I have been in the office. Been to Mexico, which was nice. It’s not a big deal, they just test the day before you get on the plane to…

It’s easy for people like you who hated our last president to dunk on Lordstown motors and make the low hanging joke, but you probably don’t want to talk about all of the terrible failures of companies that the Obama administration backed with shitloads of taxpayer dollars.

My gut tells me that it’s not a matter of SUV’s and big pickups being popular. Any vehicle strike to a pedestrian at speeds much faster than idle is likely going to be fatal. If I were a betting man, I’d say the problem lies not with the relative size of our automobiles but with all the driverless vehicles, which is…

I love the car but not for $15k. It’s still an 11 or 12 year old car with cloth seats and performance that’s just okay. It’s solid at like $9,000-$10,500