would that have been a Lithia dealer?

yeah, that’s definitely a good sign. i’ve been on and off looking for a new truck, and even stepping up to full size, it’s not exactly easy to find a crew cab and enough bed length to put the bike entirely on the bed unless you step up to the 250/2500 class...6' is the minimum. The 150/1500's EXIST with a 6.5/6.75 ft…

but is the tailgate going to taco like the tacomas?

lot of sheet metal changes, similar to the last iteration of the mazda b series and the ranger. the interior is where it gets a little more telling.

there’s a CA DMV commercial testing facility near the intersection of E North Ave and S East Ave...

my city says they’ll pick up batteries in a ziplock separate from the trash, placed on top of the bin... but the collection people don’t actually pick them up, they just move the bag off the garbage can and leave the batteries in the street.

i picked up that bit of trivia somewhere previously...the V6 mustang bumper doesn’t have the exhaust cutouts the GT has, which the R didn’t need with its (both) side exit exhausts.

*rimshot*

around 245k on a late 90's accord here, and there’s an early aughts model around 260k in the extended family too.

I’d like to know why suv is off the table.

i was pricing a ‘just for the hell of it’ trip to portland (from central CA) a few years ago. JUST the round trip on amtrak with the smallest sleeper rang in more expensive than booking flight+hotel+rental car for 3 nights via the usual travel sites (hotwire, etc)

there was a friend of a friend some years back...had a salvage yard in the family. was running around with a ls1+rear mounted turbo stuffed into a late 90's single cab S10.

did some googling on some of the central California stuff, based on the linked 1957 Edition.

well, i have to give GM credit for actually managing to make it a bit less ugly than the last design. then again, there wasn’t a lot of room to make it worse, sooo....

my mid-2000's b-series does, and it’s semi effective.

Slug Bug!

i was thinking the same thing. that’s the only rational explanation why that monstrosity isn’t on the list.

I can’t imagine that there aren’t a bunch of contributing factors to this besides “people are inconsiderate assholes”. Lack of availability of most things that aren’t trucks and SUVs (Ford discontinuing most of their cars, honda discontinuing the fit...), which is also partly down to the fact that trucks are the big…

JB weld got my VW through its last smog without having to buy a $500+ one year only, CA only, EGR filter because the case on mine was split most of the way around...probably wasn’t a fan of the fireballs it would spit with the 5 degrees ATDC the dual vacuum distributor threw in when i wound it up and lifted off the…