You can thank the government for that.

Body repair in general will never not be expensive to replace if you think about it. My neighbor misjudged their y-turn and left paint transfer all over my rear bumper. It’ll cost me $25 in the end for materials, but I have to spend all that time dismantling it and prepping it for primer and paint.

The big 3 know that their audience is far more likely to use their trucks on-road, where shock location doesn’t matter as long as they aren’t dragging on the pavement.

“You have to tie down your loads,” Lanham told WFAA. “It just takes a couple of seconds.”

That same country also watched a high school get shot up because local law enforcement stood outside twiddling their thumbs, literally...

I know which video you’re talking about. I think that case was a stand-alone issue, most of the early deployments have been from the trucks being at an angle GM engineers felt was unsafe but wasn’t extreme enough to actually roll.

As a member of the Colorado community, I do apologize for the CHEVROLET grille that has appeared on every GM truck.

Even if it’s a diesel?

They did. GM reprogrammed them to be less conservative in what angle they deploy at.

Probably the latter.

I was actually making fun of how people on here think. Don’t get me wrong, it would be awesome having a fleet of your own, but for a majority of people it’s unrealistic. Most families don’t have more than two cars.

About 90%.

I don’t know that many people who buy these and don’t use them on an almost daily basis. I would say that 98% of the people I have met over the years that have a 3/4 ton or larger use their trucks at least 4 months a year (snow plowing)

Doesn’t matter. You need at least one vehicle for every occasion, and those vehicles can only be doing exactly what they were designed for. If you have a truck, you must have it at maximum payload AND towing all the time. If you have a minivan, you must have every seat taken with a child carseat. If you have a…

My parent’s neighborhood still throws a fit regardless of the type of vehicle, with the exception of RVs.

Not to mention that if you live in the salt belt your “man step” becomes that much more unreliable.

I see a lot of lifted trucks with big tires still doing work. My neighbor across the street, for instance, drives a lifted F-350 (single wheels) with huge mud tires and bigass flares. He does contracting, so he hauls around his trailer with all of his equipment.

Sorry, I read it as if you were disgusted by the likelihood that this would be a Ridgeline with a Hyundai badge. My mistake.

And?

Oh I know, a majority of the bills that go through congress have immense bipartisan support, it’s just when you get to these much more publicly reported ones that SUDDENLY one side becomes evil and the other is on a mission from God.