This is great, now instead of seeing the Feds from a mile away, I can see them approaching from the moon.

What if they crossed this with the gladiator rubicon for undercover forestry service vehicles. 

My dad worked for a federal agency in Canada- he would sometimes have to watch people without them knowing. It was hard enough with a poverty spec car with hubcaps and then they insisted that there had to be lettering on the side of the car to let people know who they were. Due to some paperwork issues his department…

Wake me when it comes with a minigun.

Fun fact: modern full size pickups in their HD guise actually have worse forward visibility than many Class 8 commercial tractors.

You know the correct answer already.  

Because it’s damn near the size of the Palisade/Highlander/Pilot CUVs while starting at $34k. The Palisade SE technically starts at $37k, but very few of those loss leaders actually exist (of the 802 new 2024 Palisades for sale within 100 miles of Chicago, 0 are SE trim).

The most common trim of Santa Fe near here is…

Ford Flex, anybody?

Look at that flat upright back window. loads more space than a sloped back end. 

So, you look cool, but you can’t see shit out the front. That fits right in with the American pickup truck driver persona.

Unless you tow big things, big enough for pretty much anything you would want to use a pickup truck for.  But yet I am sure full sized will outsell these x times to one, because bigger is always better.

Any truck that has a longer cabin than a bed is always going to look dumb to me.

“As U.S. sales of gas-electric hybrid vehicles surge and electric-vehicle sales cool”

It was predicted 25 years ago.

1st: Well I am going deeper into EVs: I pick up my iX tomorrow.  And I can’t fucking wait.

I should be the ideal candidate for an electric car. I’m a delivery driver. Here’s the problem: I live 25 miles from where I work (I bought a house, it was the closest one that was affordable.) I can drive from 100-175 miles a night at work, and I have no idea what it’s going to be. I don’t have time to recharge at…

1st Gear: For a legacy automaker, hybrids can make sense because it enables squeezing a bit more life out of legacy ICE platforms until they can build up their BEV supply chain and reduce costs. And for a company like GM, they already have the tech (Voltec). It would be stupid not to use what they already have.

1st Gear: I sure hope VW is paying attention. The already have their new Tiguan PHEV that goes 60 miles on a charge (if you believe WLTP, so OK maybe 40 or 50 miles), they just have to start making it in Chattanooga.

GM spent like $6bn making the plug in hybrid Volt and then lost a couple of billion selling them at a loss. Mindful owners could go months without putting gas in it. Of course only 4.5% of the population understand what a plug in hybrid is. I suppose you could fault the automakers for failing to educate people but it…

Why do the side skirts extend so low? kinda negates the purpose of ground clearance when the body extends down half the tire height. Bad edit, but if they shortened the sides a bit more (the grey lines), it would look so much better.