I rolled around Austin downtown a few weeks ago and wasn’t really impressed. It seemed like every bar I walked past followed the urban hipster starter pack formula that was already codified and mass-produced to theme-park levels in Brooklyn, NY.

the correct answer is a Tacoma. there is no other more correct answer. all other answers shall henceforth be graded as #2 or lower.

Does it come with uncomfortable seats and extra head gaskets? I mean, if you’re going to go for a true ST inheritor, it’s gotta follow form.

it was a private sale, not from a dealer, and the truck was over a decade old.

No, it won’t. I’ve driven that car, in those conditions, on many occasions. The northeast is, in fact, the home to transient freezing conditions. It’s not a problem.

Ford, I would hope, realizes that the youngest group of people who could legally drive a brand-new Bronco are now in their 40's. They better get cracking before prospective buyers are more interested in an AARP discount than an FX4 off-road package.

I bought a Ford F250. Immaculate condition in and out. a little rust up under the rockers, but not too bad. Some nuisance issues like a hole in the muffler and interior dome light that didn’t work. it did have a plow mount on the frame. the exhaust manifold studs had been replaced, and that’s a big thing with these…

that’s a weak argument. If price were no object to you or your passenger’s safety, you’d have the best possible snow tires for winter and finest summer performance tires for summer. you should also consider having all-season tires on-deck for spring and fall driving.
But if we’re going for absolute best here and…

I’m blasting it because it’s just marketing gibberish. It doesn’t mean anything.

the 3.0 suffers from the same architecture as the 2.7. turbo failures and bottom end blow-outs are not uncommon.

I have snow tires. They aren’t necessary. at least not always.

I know enough about Ford and enough about diesel to know that when the two of them get together, bad things happen.

I think you could make the argument that modern gauge clusters are superfluous, anyway. I have no idea why you’d need a tach with an automatic transmission, and many cars don’t have them at all. The oil pressure and volt gauges are all set these days so that they’re more for entertainment value than actual…

it’s a nice sentiment, but the bigger threat (‘round these parts) is the salt accumulation. Getting the ‘active’ contaminants off the car as quickly as possible must take precedence over gently removing the ‘passive’ contaminants to protect the paint finish.

I came to see Gundanium. I did not see it.

I replaced the front half (just the front half) of the frame on my F-250.

your suffering will be remembered. I know of these contraptions well, and you have my pity.

I’ve got an honest old Tacoma from before the towers fell in NYC, and there’s few trucks like it anymore. I will say that if you do want an ‘honest old style truck’, then the last best hope you have is a Ford F250 XL. Vinyl seats, roll-up windows, and a big honking N/A V8. And it’s $10k less than the Toyota.

you’re forgetting the true value of autonomous vehicles is the ability to platoon them. Structural capacity of a highway lane is about 1800-2000 vehicles per hour, which assumes a 1.8-2 seconds per vehicle past a static point. More, er... ‘aggressive’ areas can hit 2600-2800 cars per hour (hi, New Jersey!). Autonomous…

it’s like they took all the cynicism and hubris that VAG used to give us the A3 and smashed it down to fit in a USPS flat rate box.