All this would prove is what truck ships with grippier tires from factory.

And your car doesn't have horse-shoes anymore. I fail to see how one change in the truck will cause it to fail. The negatives are rather minor to all the positives of aluminum. Simply because body-shops can't do "X" any more (just like how Farrier can't take care of your horseless carriage) is a sudden reason that…

Google's market cap is ~$393 billion. Amazon's market cap ~$155 billion. I'm not sure Google could just turn around a buy Amazon.

I thought they were all jet-skis.

Somewhere between this:

A soccer mom with a new Tahoe? Yes. The damn thing starts, STARTS, at $45,000.

How do you estimate the value of a care in 5 years?

If you can afford a 50k car, I'm going to venture a guess that you are on the very upper end of middle-class. Sure, some people are great with money, or are willing to forgo some other luxuries to get that car they really want, but I have yet to see a person with a new E350 that I would call "middle-class".

Is that two sets of fog lamps... and an LED strip? Lights are getting out of control.

Does improving handling typically not improve how fast a car is? Fast to me is usually more than just a straight line measurement.

You can't use average car sale price. That is a skewed metric. Just because the average new car is selling for $32k doesn't mean there aren't tons of new cars starting less than $20k. Also, when the lowest a new car could sell for is $0 and the highest has no bounds, of course the average car price is going to be…

Good thing it still has a steel frame, and good thing aluminum is more dent resistant and rust resistant.

Wait... aluminum airplanes don't live as long as a steel one? First of all, show me a popular steel framed airplane that is still around. Second, do some research on aluminum ones. The B52 is aluminum and was entered into service in 1955. It is expected to be in active service (as in dropping bombs on shit) until…

Guess you haven't seen that if they made the bed out of aluminum that was as thick as the steel in the old steel bed, it would be stronger than that old steel bed. Then they went ahead and made it even thicker. So the bed is still lighter than the old one, but far stronger.

Ooops, 56 mph top speed indicated.

75 on a good day with a tailwind. This was a guy loaded down with a bunch of gear. Also, I'm not sure ridding pegged against the rev-limiter is good for a 3000 mile trip (he included that in the piece). And it probably took so long because of the combo of the bike, and that its exactly a nice LA highway the entire…

I... I don't like the front.

It's going on body panels. This is not that new. Aluminum hoods, tailgates and roofs have been used on plethora of vehicles for years and years (yes, trucks too).

These are body panels... I'm not sure why metal fatigue would be a huge issue here.