The one thing Toyota did right was settling with the owners of those trucks. My buddy bought one used in Ohio, drove it as a work truck for 4 years, then took it in for a service at a dealership in SoCal(where he now lives). He ended up getting it bought back from Toyota for a couple grand more than he had paid…

Style is subjective, and I thought it looked better than the Ram I ended up getting. The fact that it was less capable and more expensive than a half ton is ultimately what did it in.

Even if you could get a full sized truck for 6-7k cheaper? I really wanted a Dakota in '06. When the dealership told me it was gonna cost like $100/month over a quad cab 4x4 hemi Ram I rethought my stance. This was a big reason the Dakota just couldn't hold on.

One of the things that killed the Dakota was that you could pretty much buy a decently equipped Ram with the same coin. Incentives and all. Seeing that GM is already incentivizing the new trucks, will this be an issue for the Canyon too?

My buddy has a v-wagon manual.

"(GM) is urging owners not to leave trucks unattended while idling."

I was just texting my buddy who works for a GM contractor flashing vehicles....he just got sent out of town to work on this issue this weekend. But he said it's no big deal, it's so cold out the trucks are just doing what they can to keep warm.

It's more important than the Mustang.

YES. YES. YES.

If you're looking for a pre-race lunch, hit up Tivoli's...it's up the road a couple miles on the west side of Van Dyke just north of M-59. Cheesy breadsticks FTW, wood brick oven pizzas too.

He's "retiring." Holiefield encompasses all that's wrong with the UAW. Years of corruption finally caught up to him and even as such they're allowing him to go out "on his own terms" relatively unscathed. Nepotism(including creating nonsense jobs for family), selling jobs, intimidation, and all around thuggery. …

They don't make 3klb trucks anymore. It's all relative.

First Miggy's groin, now Megatron's knee. Can't play in Detroit without being tough enough to play through tears. Or tears.

Exactly. The work Detroit actually OWNS is worth basically a drop in the bucket in the grand scheme of things.

even the current V6 200s do the 1/4 mile in mid-low14s, a fact which blew my mind.

One doesn't preclude the other. She never left the seen of the accident. You don't know that she wasn't profusely apologetic the entire time.

Better yet, (purely playing devil's advocate) why was the dying lady's family going to twitter at her bedside???

If I'm a 19 year old kid that just hit an old lady and put her into the hospital, I'm probably having a difficult time not thinking about that myself. Maybe her family was trying to help her think about something else for the day and she bought into it, because lord knows she's gonna be thinking about this a lot for…

DETROIT DOESN'T OWN THE ART. At least most of it. They own a portion of it. Which is why all the estimates were so "low." Because people don't pay attention do the fine print. From the Washington Post:

Nor did he build the car, Randy Grubb(Blastolene) did. Obviously Jay's name is why it got in, but still....