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*Check notes...* Umm, are you confusing the Santa Cruz with Mazda's new pickup. the BT-50? This is the one that is based on a Isuzu truck platform, and will not be sold in the U.S.

^ Should last as long as any other general turbo'd vehicle. Again I point to the random guy who promised me my turbo would "explode" at 75K miles; I just turned 199K yesterday.

No one studly Is that anything like THIS bar?

FWD with AWD optional and M-B DEFINITELY tries to pass this turd as something fancy. Bullshyte 4Matic trim making AWD standard making it seem this turd is fancy FWD with AWD optional and M-B DEFINITELY tries to pass this turd as something fancy. Bullshyte 4Matic trim making AWD standard making it seem this turd is fancy And bottom of the barrel turd. FWD with AWD optional and BOTH Mercedes and BMW are hiding the fact that they both wants to sell to former buyers of Chevrolet Cavaliers, Pontiac Vibes (Toyota Matrix) and Saturn Ions.

60-80% of just about everyone's sales are CUVs / SUVs. But since the vast majority of SUVs are 4WD, are german ones 'fun' and American ones 'not fun' even tho they have the same number of drive wheels? Does anyone who buys a mobile consumer appliance (CUV) drive them in any way aggressively? What percent of drivers? I watched a Porsche 911-esque car today, turn right onto the highway at a red light. Road ahead was empty... and it just leisurely oozed forward like a kia forte on a donut spare. I thought 'Idiot."

03-04 Mustang Cobra 04 Z06 Ducati 848 Streetfighter E63 AMG 2010-2013-ish Ram 1500

The 4x4 posts while having the 4x6 screwed into them are for tenting. This allows us to have from heavy clear plastic early in the year when frost is still possible over the starts planted to protect them to using the lite weight cloth coverings to keep insects out but allow rain to fall on the plants. At this stage except for the lettuce as this helps keep it very clean, the rest of the veggie plants are established enough to grow with out tenting needed. Here is how it looked earlier this year after we had already gone from clear heavy plastic to just tenting against the sun. The posts will also be used as I will secure some lattice work for the squash plants to grow up on and let the squash hang and grow big, but clean. Planning to secure lattice this weekend if it does not rain. It will look like this. Lattice also allows the plant while growing and keeping the veggies clean to spread out easier so it does not mildew here where we tend to get plenty of drizzle.

Non-SS aftermarket hood (similar to a '69 Z/28 hood) also and the 396 badging (SS 396s had different badging). Nice resto mod. My brother used to have a '68 Camaro SS 396 w/ 4spd in Le Mans blue w/ the white version 2 stripe (nose stripe like this, but extending down the sides into the door rather than ending at the bumper. He had the stock SS hood, stock engine, stock Rally wheels (but w/ a set of American Racing CP-200 'Daisy' mags w/ the pebble-coated gray spokes he ran sometimes..) He had it for 25 years...really nice car, loud, very fast...I drove it a few times..those '60s muscle cars have a raw feeling of power and acceleration, very different from the smooth fast cars of today. This pic I found on the internet is a car very, very similar to the one my brother had..same color and stripe. It's here in Ohio also, theoretically could be the same car.

Pandemic projects. So in my 12th week of working from home. Actually loving it saving 2hrs a day in NOT having to commute to the office. As such I have gotten back to my enjoyment of wood and projects. I figure @A Horse With No Name who is a kindred spirit would enjoy my wood projects. So during this time, I hit a mental road block on a project and remember my math teacher who always said there is a solution, just go do something different and come back and you will find the solution. So I did just that, went out to my shed, used scrap wood, screws and stain to create a small table for my BBW area. My other recent project was a bit bigger, the wife wanted an easier time gardening, so I figure why not build her a decent raised bed. The last raised bed was a 2ft high plastic bed, $400 from Costco. 3ft x 10ft x 2ft high. I thought I could do this better with natural wood. So off to searching the web and then Home Depot and here is my raised bed I built for the wife out of 4"x6"x10ft timbers. This ended up giving me a 5ft wide by 10ft long 30" tall raised bed for gardening. You can see the Costco plastic bed with Garlic growing, planted early winter to the left. Stacking it into the ground. 3/8th rebar, 3ft long. 2ft into the ground, 1ft of wood. Drilled hole and then pounded the bar in. Finished bed with liner installed. Bed filled with Black Gold compost / dirt. Great way to grow healthy veggies. So the wife is on an organic kick, all things nature, no chemicals and as such I was researching various ways to make this last even longer then the estimated 15 to 20 years or so. As such a coworker introduced me to a Japanese technic of making the wood water and fire resistant. The technic is called Shou Sugi Ban. This is taking a torch to the outside and charring it and then wire brushing it down to have a harder wood surface. This take the softer carbon parts of the wood and harden it. My coworkers veggi bed, in the future any more beds I build will have this done on the inside and outside first before liner and dirt is put in. My Shou Sugi Ban veggi bed now that I have done the technic on it. More info if your interested in the Shou Sugi Ban technic here on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=shou+sugi+ban+technique Cool table project done here on this same technic.

Definitely another "lifestyle truck" in the vein of the Ridgeline. Based on the FWD/AWD Santa Fe, it should come in cheaper than a Ridgeline, I would hope. It appears at this point to have no "rugged" affectations tacked on, like the Ridgeline. dfelt, it is Mazda, a Japanese brand that is bringing out an Isuzu-based body-on-frame pickup, it will not be sold here. This is Hyundai, which is a Korean brand, and the "pickup" which is the subject of this thread is a unibody vehicle, FWD/AWD transverse engine, based on their semi-compact Santa Fe CUV.

I meant the Buicks themselves.... ? . I know early turbos had to be cared for...easier to break if abused. Though those turbo SAABs did quite well....... have a neighbor down my street with a 98 with 220k on it with no engine/turbo work....

It's not been 'upkept' as much as it's been restored. Wheel & shifter definitely aren't factory, but they blend in perfectly well. Also looks like 18s on all 4 corners. Bet it has way more than 350 or 375 HP gross now.

Went in to get some coffee last night. Walked out a little later. WTH! Saw this: Mostly stock, I guess. Not sure about the steering wheel and the gear shift handle. Didn't want to poke my head inside the window too much, but it had manual windows and no A/C. Think of unleashing 396 cubes of a pre-1970 EPA regulated emissions controls engine. That's a lot of horsepower. Kudos to its owner for his (her) immaculate upkeep of this 52 year old (1968) Camaro.

Now everything is :

liberal

The emblem was indeed Renault. This thing is goofy. (At least its rear lights are very much at eye level.)

Seattle

Hen’s tooth @ the dealer : Silverado Crew Cab / Standard Bed. If it had the 3.0L TD I’d still be humping it. EDIT :: As of Jun 22- this truck was marked 'sold'. Sticker was $53K.

I used to work with a Chinese lady that was absolutely terrifying to ride with. Went to lunch w her and a few coworkers, and we thought about calling a taxi to get back to the office...never rode with her again. She didn’t pay attention to stop signs, sped, tailgated, changed lanes constantly. Under five feet tall, driving a 6500lb SUV around Chandler, Az.

Went to the junkyard this morning. Small yard, they used to keep a small section of really old (60s) stuff off to the side, but I was disheartened to see it all gone and a crusher in the rear of the yard. Oh well, almost nothing left of the oldies there anyway. Had a '60 Olds coupe, was going to scour it for some hardware for my B-59. This was the oldest thing I saw there; '76 Laguna by the writing on the C-Pillar :

Buick is barely alive. SAAB is dead. Porsche is creating CUVs to chase volume, and peddling those CUVs to the world's LEAST interested in any kind of enthusiast criteria and while their turbo 911 is one of the world's most capable and fun cars around, it means little when Porsche's image now is all about cup holder ergonomics and rich bitch, entitled whiny white female -Karens- (as opposed to their lesser priced VW and Audi counterparts that cater to entitled whiny white bitch female -Karens-) So...not too well as it may.

Will be interesting to see how it sells. A Isuzu based truck with Hyundai style at what price point will be the interesting part.