Those old magnetic speedometers aren’t linear at all near 0. So the graduations are adjusted to make the readings more accurate.

yeah but how are you supposed to put a foam ball on a shark fin? or a little flag? and go ahead and tell me how im supposed to replace a sharksfin with a 50 cal bullet antenna to let people know my fondness for bullets and crappy reception?

Basically this. I’ve seen loads of F-250s towing horse trailers and boats, but most F150s I see are pulling uhauls, jet skies, and trailers, and are likely going 50 miles or less, round trip

The real answer here is that if you tow larger trailers longer distances, this probably isn’t the truck for you (though the Hybrid F-150 probably is).

But the reality is that for the *three quarters of a million* F-150s sold last year, there’s an incredibly large number of owners that don’t tow anything, or tow very…

I kind of just want to say “who thought it wouldn’t be?” The reality is that any electric vehicle that will also need to tow heavy things a long way should actually be a range extended hybrid like the Chevy volt. Except in the case of they F-150 it could have been some kind of small compound turbocharged diesel with…

Yes yes on the Subaru brat. Give it a brush bar and long ass whip antennas. Though I don't think the rearward seats in the bed would be allowed these days 

Imagine creating an organization that celebrates conspicuous consumption and unearned wealth and then having either the extreme self-awareness, or the extreme lack thereof, to call your organization One Percent.

Gneiss.

It could have been avoided by initially cleaning out the threads to the point where the bolt would thread in smoothly, cutting the plastic trim that was in my way and causing me to miss the fact that I was cross-threading, and then ensuring that I’d finger-tightened the bolt before cranking on it with a ratchet.

Do they want to run this down the same assembly line where they build S-X or 3-Y? Or do they want to set up a line just to do trucks? I own a wonderful set of shop tools at home, but I don’t bring them to work.

This is a good take. For years we’ve been halfheartedly rooting for Tesla, knowing all the while that a new car company in post-consolidation, hyperregulated America would be nearly impossible. Tesla finds a way to shave down production costs and everyone jumps down their throats. I’m no fan of this hideous…

Why should we sit around and argue about how we are going to die

I feel like these articles are Tracy’s subconscious crying out for an intervention. Please, I can’t stop myself, would you look at the rust, and how rare it is, how could I NOT take it home? 

We know you already trailered this back to your parking lot house. Why even try to tease us?

Yep, a better question is ‘What happened to Nissan?’.  Seriously, other than the GT-R (and maybe the 370Z) there isn’t a Nissan that I even think about any more.  This is the same company that made a sports sedan that actually competed with the BMW 3-series (Maxima) and made a souped-up version of a basic economy car…

He kind of did if you read the last paragraph in full, the parts were only $675. He did it in 5 hours so he factored $215/hr of shop time (reasonable number). Even if it was only the parts cost, they are rarely only 10% of the repair cost unless it's a huge engine and transmission removal job.

Huge loss... what a badass woman. Rest in peace, Jessi.

This is still a tow vehicle, a super duty one at that, it’s plays on a different plane than a 1500 sized pickup.

At first I wanted to change the photo on this blog but then I realized it’s a guy with a no-face helmet absolutely wringing the hell out of an old Civic and I saw that it was Good