Exactly what I thought. I used to dismiss that pushrod relic. Until time has shown that simplicity can lead to reliability and lower cost, and that without all the overhead this and that, it results in a more compact design with a lower center of gravity. Especially with a dry sump. No way it should be left off such a…

The concept front end is beautiful, graceful in its proportions. The second picture is an ugly distortion.

I don’t know, but the drug dealers in any action movie will be driving one. In a movie you only have a few seconds to establish a character.

It is called “marketing”. “Here is the best seller. Don’t give me a unique, or creative, or innovative design, give me one that looks more like the best seller or where the best seller is going. “ This way in our wonderful competitive economy all trucks basically look the same - designed to terrorize pedestrians and…

Oh come on. GM motors and transmissions have an excellent reputation. So do some of tis suspension designs. I will buy, but their trucks are either ugly or follow some trend I don’t like, and the interiors are weak.

Great idea about restricting who can buy luxury things - have a means test. Then have the government get into the basic car manufacturing business, you know, like a social safety net. Just think how much cheaper it could be to have just one model produced that looked okay, ran okay, stayed on the road okay, didn’t…

I have a 2008 Quattroporte. Yes, depreciates rapidly. I didn’t have a mark on it until at 76,000 miles in October I nudged a deer. Nudged is the word, it ran off and I almost was stopped. Minor damage - needs headlight assembly and has a small fender dent. I do not have collision or comprehensive insurance. If I had,…

Supposedly the development costs to produce updated cars with low markets are too high. Okay, I can accept that. So why not just keep producing a small car to an old design, and drop the price a bit each year? Nissan has done that with its Frontier pickup, and it is no barn burner of a sales item, but it is cheaper…

Click bait. Exactly. How do I get the time I spent reading it back?

Do I have to get bucket seats and console in one of the required packages if I order the six cylinder diesel? It wasn’t clear to me from the wording in the table. That to me would be a deal breaker. I buy trucks because of the room, not because I am made to feel like a pilot or in a sports car.

I am happy that Saab is out of business. The first car I bought with my own money was a Saab and the product and company support were both terrible. It wasn’t just a lemon, it had serious design flaws.

Make sure there is a lot of glass, a lot of visibility. Don’t make it so hard to see out the front over the hood.  A bench seat option up front. Big knobs and switches that you can work with gloves on.

My thoughts too. I would buy a new small pickup, a basic one without a TV , console, bucket seats, nanny driver aids, in a flash. But we don’t have that choice, partly because the chicken tax keeps out competition. So we are stuck with buying these old units and making do with them.

I like the visibility up front, this truck does not have to rely on cameras for the driver to see. I see it is a four door truck. Did they make a six door version? I think I have seen Ford based 6 door trucks that I would prefer to this one. Which is better for the environment, building and using one truck such as…

These big trucks are land yachts. I have driven many times from Western Canada to Florida, California to New York, in all types of weather, usually with dogs. I don’t like the aggressive looks, the poor visibility, lack of room up front with the gigantic file cabinet needed with the higher trims, but otherwise they…

I don’t like a lot of the new “technology” the automakers seem to be focusing on. I don’t want a big TV screen in my car or truck, and I prefer larger windows to the idea of more cameras to see where I am going. Having said that, I am waiting. I am happy with the supposedly out-dated Tundra, but a new model is on the…

There are some applications for this golf cart or parking enforcement vehicle. I do wish it has success, a lot of it. That way maybe some domestic manufacturer may be able to take the chance that one can make money with a small pickup truck just a little bit larger. Maybe consumers will get irritated enough to…

The design mentality is that you don’t need to see out when you have a lot of cameras. It will feel like you are in a dark prison cell.  They have to make it big outside to terrorize everyone else.

That “clean and handsome” old design you favor doesn’t have the “high hood line” that means you can’t see where you are going so well without cameras. Inside too it did not feel like you were in a dungeon, There is also no opportunity to charge you more to hide chrome with body color. The worst part of the old design…

Somebody pointed out here that the depreciation on Maserati is huge. I know, I have a 2008 Quattroporte I purchased new. It is true that maintenance is expensive, but no more so than other luxury brands that you don’t wheel into your local Jiffy Lube. For me at least the car has been very reliable, it is my daily…