Making a car almost unusable just seems objectively dumb.

“Stance Nation” doesn’t get a lot of sympathy from me when they literally do this to themselves

I’m really glad I’m not the only one who noticed this

I’m not if things are the same where you are, but when I think of an E-series van, I always think of a vehicle at least 10-15 years old, if not older.

I see it a lot on pickup trucks.

Same. Almost always a van.

TRUTH! About 20 years ago, I borrowed a then-14-year-old Econoline van to move about 50 miles. The back end was broken and somewhat loose.

I called it the Ouija Van since it kind of moved on its own and told me my immediate fortune was not a good one.

I moved safely and got it back in one piece, so all good. The next…

And a lot of them are pretty extreme on mileage.

A few years ago, Honda was trying to find million-mile Hondas for a “club” (publicity & advertising stunt).  When they failed to find any, Ford trolled them by finding a small army’s worth of E-series vans near or past a million miles.  There was even one hospital in…

Not even kidding, I see this a lot on school busses. 

Yes, I agree. I see loads of those vans do this. To be fair, most them have worked real hard their whole life with minimal or subststandard maintenance. I have certainly never been nice to an E-Series van.

I was told it was so the F & R tracks of the tires are different. This is to eliminate “retracking” of a rut. Basically the rear tires are narrower so that they will be in a “fresh” section of a rut/mud/etc and not going into the void from the front tires.

Probably because the vans are getting used for work and the suspension is getting worked harder. My time in Texas saw a small portion of work trucks and a ton of pristine garage queens

The E-series has a 3" narrower rear track than the front, so from the perspective of a following driver, it can look like it’s dog-tracking even when it’s not. One of the major aftermarket builders was told by engineering that it was done to reduce warranty claims from curb strikes bending wheels. They finally went…

my thoughts exactly and I have even had experience driving my uncle’s Ford econoline 350 van that did just that.... you sort of learn to steer it more like a boat, never too much at once and more or less just hanging on and hoping. It also shook at some speeds while other speeds smoothed out, for example 55-65 mph was…

For some reason, most of the time when I notice a vehicle doing that, it’s a Ford E-series van.

I would say that upwards of 90% of the vehicles I see with solid live axles are either E-Series vans or pre-2015 Mustangs. GM cargo vans don’t seem to have much market penetration, and pickups aren’t a thing in NYC.

Russia would have apparently designed an indirect power system. That was Pluto’s problem, the nuclear reactor *directly* powered the thermodyamic system and not only activated everything that went through it, but could spit out little bits of nuclear fuel too as the engine wore down over time.

The Russians aren’t…

Kyle, thanks for the Project Pluto detail — that’s all I could think about when I was reading this. Something that the world collectively deemed too dangerous in the 1950s (when smoking and ribeye steaks were healthy!) is suddenly ok for Russia. This could get interesting.

I feel like this sentence might make more sense if it was the other way around.