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So you’re saying the $70k luxury EV truck won’t be a good fit for my landcaping company? 

The party line here is that a Ridgeline is what most truck owners actually need, so here it is. Except the trunk is in front rather than under the bed, which is more practical Read more

Nobody looking for a work truck is buying a hummer, just like they aren’t buying a Gladiator.

LotR also winds up getting boring as shit in places. Battle of Helm’s Deep? That’s a page. Let’s get back to the slow world building!

If you were hoping for an EV version of a single-cab, 8-foot bed Sierra, this is not that truck, and was never going be.

Not if it has some of that sweet sweet midgate action. 

There hasn’t been a free market in the USA since well before the bridge was built. Why didn’t you vote out the government that prevented others from building bridges?

Without the benefit of tax and toll revenue shuffles that government does that doesn’t sound much more than enough funds to maintain the structure and pay off the purchase price. It’s a single bridge. there’s no way to do what the Illinois toll road authority does which is to raise tolls in some places to build new or… Read more

Falling pieces? Sounds like Chicago’s ‘L’ in the early 1990s when it was 100 years old. But unlike the ‘L’ what was falling wasn’t steel bits but concrete according to what you wrote. Concrete in that bridge design is more load that structure, the road deck isn’t the structure of the bridge. If the bridge was so bad… Read more

We need to talk about “we need to talk about” headlines. They’re the most Jezebel thing about Jalopnik. Just stop. Read more

“Does it seem to you like this span is too important a crossing to be in private ownership? Because it always has to me!” Read more

Counterpoint... maybe we need to talk less about Elon Musk. Read more

Damn that’s good looking 

Here’s a Ranger upgrade Ford should offer: The Ford Everest. With this they could kill the rental-only Edge and instead offer something way more in line with buyer tastes (rugged, spacious, durable, 3 row SUV).

These are really great options, and I wish Toyota would do something similar, instead of trying to push you into a TRD Pro (with no added power). 

Jesus Christ. 

That documentary is actually about family, I suggest you take another look. Drink every time someone says family in those docs and you'll be dead toot sweet

I saw that documentary. It really blew my welds off.

Ah, yes. Plenty of room under the trailer for so I can hide from the cops in my black Honda Civic. Saw it in this documentary once. It was about these furious people going really fast.