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It is happening more or less DAILY: Whether I am right behind the car waiting at the signal, or three cars behind it, that first car seems to have a "problem" pulling away from the signal. It takes me and/or the others to tap our horn(s) and that driver then starts to move. If behind them, you might see a cell phone being put down. If not, and you end up alongside them further ahead, you may see a phone in the picture. I'm not trying to be sexist, but most of the time it's women/girls. Statistical studies support this. Some guys do it, too. I'm not talking about polished professional women. I'm talking about teenagers who haven't been driving that long, ones who might have been in a sorority, ones who may be into Oprah or similar, and Karens. Every f***ing day? Every f***ing day?

And uhhhh... how many hybrid/plug-in electric SUVs does GM have? They're trying to completely skip over the hybrid/plug-in thing while rocking decades old 3.6L V6s in everything they can until everything is a full EV.

Which that sucks because I think A LOT of people like what the 4Runner is and if they could only update the dang thing! Is it still running the 4.0 V6 with a 5spd auto?!?

Oh yeah, isn't the Taco getting new boosted/hybrid engines, as well? Last I knew, Ford and GM do not have hybrid mid-size trucks.

Agreed on the 3.4L sales prospects but shhhh, he is not supposed to acknowledge that. Only old $h! from Toyota matters here. Didn't you know?

Oh yeah, I just wasn't about to look that stuff up. I knew it's been 20+ years and that was good enough for me, Hahaha. Chevy's been running the old-@ss 5.3 for decades while Toyota has a brand new boosted 3.4 AND a boosted hybrid in their full-size truck. Obviously, it won't sell worth a sht, for whatever reasons, but it's about as technologically advanced of a truck powertrain as there gets right now.

Yeaaaah, no. GM is absolutely still heavily profit driven by their full size trucks, just as much as Ford. Where else is the profit coming from? -EVs? Not yet. -Sedans? Non-existent outside of low volume Cadillac sedan sales Other than the Vette (which really doesn’t account for that much since it’s produced in far fewer numbers) GM still lives and dies by their full size truck profits and its fanboy logic to say that they don’t. A more diverse lineup does not equal more profit.

Not mighty GM though lol.

Considering you're using the word "truck" here. Those 2022 totals and percentages are as follows; Total Ford sales: 1,780,978 Total F Series sales: 638,340 F Series percent of total sales: 35.8% Total Chevy sales: 1,518,048 Total Silverado sales: 523,249 F Series percent of total sales: 34.4% Yeah, FORD is the only one reliant on truck sales.. Also, I'm not sure why you're using 2021 data as opposed to the most recent 2022 data that is within your screen shots. It's such a silly argument because if you take away the best selling product from ANY company and they'll be struggling.

Everyone has until 2030 according to David yet GM is banking on their profit driven full size trucks to keep them rolling until 2035, but yeah it's nothing like Ford lol. https://gmauthority.com/blog/2023/06/heres-how-much-profit-gm-makes-on-full-size-trucks-and-suvs/ Now go ahead remove those trucks and see how long GM would last with that "diverse product line". It would be the same result as Ford if they did that.

Based on their sec filing Ford is heavy dependent on the truck with a far behind second place of SUVs and the mustang where GM is far more diverse on their product line based on sales of their trucks, suvs, the few cars and corvette. To me from a mgmt. standpoint GM is better spread out than Ford. So yes I see it as a concern for Ford.

I agree it does seem to have gotten worse. I see equally men and woman who come to a light and then sit there and you have to honk your horn to get them going as their phone is more important than their real single focus of driving. Course this has had a pushing affect from the Musk Lies of self-driving autos for the last decade as I hear so many coworkers and people around here who say they wish they could just get in their auto, tell it where to take them and then ignore doing anything till they have to get out. Those kind of people are a real danger to the rest of us on the road. WOW, what a narrow minded story as they ignore all the rest of the portfolio and you truly need to break out the SUVs from the trucks. Merging hides things and is not transparent. Meh to that writeup since it is NOT a complete review of the whole portfolio. So Canyon, Colorado, Maverick, Ranger are not trucks? Now your the one just like the terrible GM Authority story cherry picking the facts. GM does rely on their trucks, just not as much as ford and clearly has larger sales of SUVs & Cars than Ford. At least GM does not rely on old tech, ignore the future and sits running on old tech with serious quality issues like Toyota.