Great retort. You must have been the captain of your debate team.

Did I say you weren’t? Personal attacks part of the job description, asshole?

So you’re proof that hard work pays off then. I was dumped into the workforce just before that same recession, bought my first house just before the crash. I was smart, though, only spent half of what the bank had approved me for. Had I extended myself as far as the bank would have let me, and bought the house I…

Quite the thoughtful response, Bradley. I grew up poor. Started working at 12, busted my ass, made mistakes along the way. I owned my mistakes and learned from them. Now, I’m pretty fucking comfortable.

Skip the booze, scratchers, and smokes for a bit. Back when I was 14 working the grocery store in my podunk town nearly every person paying with WIC checks seemed to have enough cash to buy a couple cartons of smokes, a couple 30 racks, and $20-50 in scratchers at least every week.

No matter what character he played, he was always still some of the sheriff from First Blood to me.

This same Governor decided that buying lotto tickets was still an essential service. She doesn’t fucking care about saving lives, or she’d have shut that down too. The state can profit off of that though, so it’s “essential”.

“Renault, of course, is in the middle of trying to merge with Peugeot, which they insist is still on despite the pandemic. I wish them both luck.”

Right. For all the praise these trucks get, its never mentioned how trash the interiors are.

I’m with you. Ford and GM appear to be in direct competition for cheapest interior materials. Ford goes for most hideous look, and GM for most playskool look. If i’m paying the big bucks (3 years down the road when the big bucks are $25K, that is), I am looking for something like FCA did for the Ram 1500 in 2019. 

My folks got a new F150 last fall. It’s amazing how poor the quality materials are despite it being a ~$55k truck.

Am I the only one that hates Ford interiors? I mean every single model is drab and usually even worse in person (the Mustang is ok, but even thats not saying much). I mean has anyone sat inside the new Explorer or Escape? Full of cheap plastic and just overall not good looking. This interior looks to continue the…

They are the same size though

I’m sure they could weld on control arm brackets and strut towers if they wanted to use the same frame. I imagine it would be less tooling than a new frame as long as the geometry works out.

Reminds me of the prostitute from Total Recall.

Who the hell has a mechanical issue at 165,000 (!) miles and expects the manufacturer to fix it for them?

I think they just passed some reform in MI that will help alleviate this.

This site is becoming so out of touch with it audience

You do realize Jalopnik is FILLED with writers who live and work near the center of NYC. I used to read almost every article on this site, now I visit about once a week to see if Andrew or David have any new content. You can’t have a perspective on America solely from the middle of its largest city...

You do realize that a lot of people actually work for a living and need trucks, right? That Kale salad you are eating was grown by a farmer that needed a truck. That structure you are living in was built by contractors that needed a truck. The internet you are using to post was installed by a person who was driving a…