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Happy 20th CheersandGears!

Why? Asking because I do not know about truck strength and dynamics. An integral body/bed will have an adverse impact with hauling and towing capacity? Or is it more of a manufacturing thing and the lack of flexibility of switching easily to market demand regarding bed sizes on the production line?

Shiver me timbers matey! I thought it was a 5 foot bed or something. Maybe I was picturing it shorter back there because of its Typhoon (Blazer) cousin.

No it didnt. But the Syclone wasnt about Home Depot runs either. It was a muscle truck. But that was the thing. They whined about how it wasnt a functional truck, but they was missin' the point that it out accelerated Ferraris and Porsches. Kinda like with Rivian and its short bed. Its more of an expensive lifestyle machine. We could slam it on how relevant it is as a lifestyle machine rather than it having a short bed of 4.5 feet. In that pic, the surfboards hang outside of the truck, but they do seem to be hauled alright though. Skis could also fit nicely in the bed or on top of the roof so we could actually nix that argument too... We could have an argument on why bother we such an expensive toy just to go skiing and camping when a cheaper VW Golf could do the same thing. And I welcome anybody to do so but as far as Im concerned today, with short beds on expensive lifestyle trucks, there is nothing to see here, other than more money than brains would fit in here perfectly. But to make a switch to EVs, we got to start somewhere... Id say no thanx to this, but I dont have a problem with it. I would prefer the HUMMER EV over this though 1000 and 1 percent!!!

Isnt Rivian the start-up that sold us off on their SUVs as lifestyle? This is off their website on the truck side. The SUV has its own lifestyle motto... https://rivian.com/r1t Remember when the GMC Syclone came out? The then automotive journalist's DID slam it by saying it was not a workable truck. Bed too small. Too low to the ground with absolutely no hauling capabilities. Well...I remember those arguments quite well too and this is why I will defend my rant on top... But lets be fair about it...the photo ops are all about lifestyle...nothing about Home Depot runs... And a couple of others with the R1T going offroad. Which reminds me of another SUV truck thing that also has a bed. No bitichin' about this one's bed though.

My parody videos were making fun of such a statement. I understand lumber may not fit in the back of a 4 and half foot bed...but how many Home Depot runs to extend their backyard decks do Average Joe pick-up drivers do anyway? How many Americans are constructing their own decks? DIYers still exist in America? If you tell me yes...I will be in shock! Yes they exist. But I have a sneaky suspicion that Rivians are not on these peoples radar even if Rivian offered a Ferd F Teenthousand version to haul bales of horses... What is it that AVERAGE Americans 'may need' to haul that is longer than 4 and a half feet on a regular basis? Even for just ONE time???!!! This reminds me of my Greek from Greece upbringing (and I know Italians do this too) that my mom had two sets of dishes. The everyday shyt dishes we ate in...everyday... and the fine china Daulton Old Country Roses ones we had. That we NEVER brought out but we had JUST for that ONE special occasion...that NEVER came. I guess the Queen of England never had a REAL interest of visiting our home. *SIGH* That the Queen never knew of my existence... In the end, my mom got fed up of waiting for royalty to come and we started eating from them. Yeah...I guess its nice to have JUST for that one BLOODY time one may need it... But it seems to be a very silly way of purchasing shyt if you ask me. Ive ONLY owned cars in my life. And being of age where cars were downsized, so far in my life, I havent really had the necessity for a 4 and a half foot bed pick up truck let alone a 12 foot one... OK...THAT would be a lie. TWO lies. Ive owned a 2007 Ford Edge that made moving from one house to another flawlessly. And when my mom passed away and I had to sell her house and move her shyt I had a need for a larger vehicle. I RENTED A FULLSIZED VAN for the day... No biggie! No problem either as LIVING IN NORTH AMERICA...CONSUMERISM not ONLY makes it possible to OWN ANYTHING we want...including 12 foot bed pick-up trucks just in case we need it for that once in a lifetime event, but in a FREE MARKET SYSTEM...BUSINESS OPPORTUNITES for PROFIT makes it possible for business savvy folk to offer products and services to me and an REASONABLE price just with a phone call or phone app so I wont be saddled with too much vehicle for everyday daily driving duties...and I coould just rent a truck for 50-100 bucks plus gas...for the day. Obviously if Rivian wants to break into the U-HAUL it for yourself business in offering bigger beds to those folk who actually need big beds for their trucks, then they need to do that. But I also would imagine that aint really targeting those folk either. They are targeting the posers. I would worry more about brand loyalty in those truck posers rather than how big the beds really are if I was Rivian. THAT would be more of a challenge. The ones that are die hard Chebby guys and die hard Ferd guys and douche bad rolling coal Dodge guys... Which brings me to the other thing. These guys are probably V8 guys thriough and through with the occasional Turbo Diesel Cummins V6 guys... A battery electric pick up truck is NOT on their radar. Therefore it dont matter... A 4 and half foot bed is just more reasons for them to laugh at a Rivian truck. A truck they'd NEVER buy anyway...

I never liked the image she was trying sooooooo hard to portray and sell...and unfortunately led America down a very shyte path, sexually. Instead of celebrating sex that is something great, intimate, natural, sexy, fun, loving AND yes....LUSTFUL... She turned that natural and beautiful sex and lust into something dirty. And disrespectful to your sex partner. Although I think that was not what she wanted to do, she helped it become that way. With that being said, I do like most of her music.

Somehow...that very same song in the Joke's thread seems very appropriate here too!

You mean to tell me a casting couch is not culture? Appropriate somehow . Im listening to this song right now! Maybe Weinstein used this song a couple of times in his hotel room while he showered and had the aspiring actresses waiting for him... Very Tarantino-ish type of scenario and song choice Id like to think...

Well...THAT is THE joke. Bleep out the word 'count' on purpose to make it sound like The Count is well... for the shytes and giggles. I took that to a darker place than what it was intended originally. Today's world is messin' with my mind!

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The Count... Count (Dracula). Well...he counts stuff. Anything and everything. To help kids learn their numbers. The original song. But I bet you thought of another word, right? Funny AF (as fuc BLEEP) But with what is going on in today's political fake news world and ultra sensitive offended culture we are cultivating... Scary AF!

Another bad ass pick up truck parody

@trinacriabob Smoooooth operator. I LOVE that song! The one you posted is slick, yes. I also like No Ordinary Love. Very sensual voice she has.

Speaking of Sesame Street. THIS is why censorship is NOT a good idea. And the way we politicize and weaponize words nowadays for our own hidden agendas, the truth just gets eroded away until there is no more truth... This video was done with humour when the dude done it a decade plus ago. But in 2021, its scary... I laughed hard, but then I thought about it...and Im legit worried about what our future holds if we dont smarten up...

Its kinda sad...for his family. He the phoquer, if he drank and drove his car and killed his family...he deserved a life of hell a lot WORSE than just living in a garbage can, in a street called Sesame. Sesame is not a place for such a monster. A place full of innocent, adorable children learning ABCs and 123s.

Experimental trials on its way? A possible solution? Many issues NEED to be addressed but its a start...

Canadian humour on big 'ole pick up trucks.

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Sorry David. ZETA is hogwash! This 'protest' is a 100% pure 'millennials' type of tantrum. Rivian, Uber, Tesla, Lordstown, Lucid, Faraday Future... yes...yes...the US military...ALL branches...use phoquing petrol to power ALL war machines. News phoquing flash...ALL militaries of the WORLD use phoquing petrol to power all of their war machines. I have a feeling ZETA's protest is more of a sinister one rather than what they say is for the "best interest of the country". Its because its hypocritical in nature... Its because none of the so called electric car makers got THE contract so they are sulking no fair... Faraday Future has conned the public with a phantom vehicle...that was supposed to have been on sale 3 phoquing years ago. How the phoque will THEY provide a vehicle for the US government? Lucid has just announced yet another "go on sale" extension for their EV... How the phoque will THEY provide a vehicle for the US government? Lordstown and Rivian. These guys are just getting started and are on the cusp of selling their first models to the people. No recent delays...just yet. Lordstown's pickup truck is unproven in the real world with their new tech... As is Rivian's. Considering that GM/Ford and Dodge sell close to 3 million units of pick-up trucks/year...AND FoMoco and GM have annnounced their very OWN EV pick-ups, are we sure Lordstown and Rivian will make it to year 2 or 3? Id like to see investor's pour billions into these two companies as they did with Tesla to keep them alive JUST like they do with Tesla... Problem is...where will all this phoquing money come from to keep these two alive IF the public wont buy into Rivian and Lordstown trucks? Its bad enough that investor's KEEP on giving Tesla billions... Like Balthy said...its a GOVERNMENT project that NEEDS to be VIABLE LONG TERM... Want proof? WW2 and the Willys JEEP. The government gave FoMoCo the rights to build it as it had the know-how, and capacity to mass produce the JEEP reliably, cheaply and would NOT go under during a war... Tesla? They got sooooooo many projects going on now, with different delays on EACH and EVERY one of them...how COULD the government trust Tesla to deliver these on time? Reliably? Every single product launch Tesla has made...Tesla has botched. With the possible exemption of the Model Y. The Roadster 2.0 is delayed. The Cybertruck is said to be different than the concept we saw. Tesla just announced a so called 'real' sub 30 000 dollar EV, which the Model 3 was ORIGINALLY... Like Balthy said... Its a government project. Cost effective it MUST be...and we ALL know that government projects are NEVER BELOW or even AT the initial estimates....is the US government going to KNOWINGLY award a contract like this to a company that KNOWINGLY goes OVER the initial estimates? And lastly... Oshkosh SAID that THEIR postal truck WILL be a BATTERY ELECTRIC vehicle. It will also be ICE only. It will also be a hybrid. BUT...it will also be BATTERY ELECTRIC only too... Its VERY disingenuous of ZETA to cry like this... NOT the other way around. And you know what? Oshkosh vehicles are KNOWN to be very reliable and durable in extreme situations. They have a LOOOOONG history of producing vehicles... There is nothing wrong with Oshkosh winning this contract. PS: I forgot to mention UBER. Uber is a most rotten, corrupt company that I have ever known in my 48 years of life... Uber skirts all kinds of different country's tax laws and taxi regulations. They do NOT pay their driver's a decent wage... ANY organization that has THEM as a partner...and I distrust THAT organization IMMEDIATELY!!!

(joy/pain) Sunshine and Rain

Its not unusual... (wink wink) But Ill tell you one thing, the first sign of a dead dove and Im playing this song 24/7 turned up to 11...