A lot of people spend too much time online and then turn everyone else into caricatures.

“(It’s also possible that the “no more foreign oil” types”

There is a portion of truck owners for whom EVs will not make sense until range isn’t cut in half by towing, and there is a portion of truck owners who live in places where chargers haven’t penetrated. It may be awhile before pickups make sense for their uses cases.

I can think of four classic pickup owners:

100% this. The pickup market is arguably one of the first places to adopt fuel saving innovations. If you read the comments on Tacoma’s, the biggest complaint is fuel economy. The hybrid trucks and SUVs of yesteryear failed because they were expensive with effectively no fuel savings, not because of some specific bias…

Ford’s already got a commercial showing the bed in use, carrying such decadent materials as “wood,” which recently seems to be something you might want to carry in an armored truck, based on the cost:

So will Orkin be signing up for the first few hundred in white? :)

Also, kudos to Ford. This is gonna be huge....Hyundai and Honda lack one big thing when it comes to the Pilot & Santa Cruz: truck street cred. While it doesn’t mean so much to mean, I can see lots of buyers willing to give this a chance since it’s a…

we arent allowed to have UTEs in the land of freedom 

Maverick ST Maverick ST Maverick ST.

and they should

This thing got like 1/100th of the buildup and fanfare the Bronco got, but imo, is 100x more important.

This thing is gonna be an absolute fucking game changer. The Santa Cruz has the better truck specs, but the hybrid Maverick is HUGE between the price and mileage. I’m very, very impressed. When I was looking at Rangers before I got my Ram, this might have gotten me to downsize rather than upsize.

If it’s going to rupture ear drums, and possibly tear anything that gets too close to the nozzles to shreds with 1500 mph blasts of air, this is clearly something that has no chance in hell of being allowed to be used on the road. In that case, why bother being limited to the shitty impulse of compressed air instead…

Hell, I can’t even empty the air tank on my 6-gallon air compressor without ear protection.

I don’t think he’s obsessed with acceleration as much as he is with novel solutions. Plus, it’s relatively easy to try. What other car company has rocket thrusters in their extended parts bin?

Oh to be clear, I don’t endorse this type of leadership, in either politicians or CEOs.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia_Coaster

On the Volkswagen front, I’ve written about the crazy high-mileage Jetta Sportwagen TDI in the fleet. It continues to inch its way to 400,000 miles without any problems or even a check engine light.

I have owned an E46 for fourteen years and had a B5 Audi A4 for five.

Why the hell do you call Ed Bolian “the new buyer”?