balthazar

Here's the (hypothetical) thing. Standing there, palms upturned, and stating 'McDonalds is upping their price of cheeseburgers by 50% how am I going to eat, I'm going to STARVE!" is wondrously short-sighted. The word is 'options' and everyone has 'em.

I gots yer 'Satan' right here.

How much 'Satan' was put in the 101-HP/2.33 axled base car? :D

That's a front end I can get behind.

Definitely has 4 wheel drums, but I drove this same model car for 25,000 miles as a daily with the (manual) drums, and I hammered on that car hard- no problems with the brakes. Not Buick-level drums, but pretty good/never an issue. No one who hasn't driven such a car will agree with that, of course- only discs could possibly stop a car. Or so I'm told. I have a set of Pontiac aluminum drums that would fit this, too.

Oh shit; exactly what I would do whenever I may move back to a car AT (After Trucks) - a vintage ride in good shape, OD trans, completely gone trhu mechanically, A/C, 27K original miles, 389 CI, CO car, clean as a whistle for a daily driver. Someone #GoFundMe :

The High Country 2500 is a definite, and possibly palatable version of the design, but they are far below the 1500 in the looks department.

Technically, Blu is located in 'fly-over' territory. ;) - - - - - Porsche is a bulk SUV brand now, running at 60% trucklettes. Rivie74 is probably right on his call.

Saw a dark brown circa '78 Lincoln Mark IV cruising the highway this afternoon- in fine shape. Not to my taste but always were classy.

Well, at least having a unimog on the lots (among all the refrigerator sprinters & metris's), would make the 1 or 2 g-wagons look like they were designed in this century. Or... maybe not. Uhhh, I don't see how that's possible. Wipers, heat, lights, sensors, etc all use juice. I plowed for a number of winters in V8 trucks- they don't use a lot of gas because the engine hardly develops any RPMs pushing snow. I use to pull 10 hour shifts and fuel the truck at the end of that shift. I know the capability of a V8 IC plow truck, but what an EV truck does, IDK. But no one is going to push snow in a $70K truck.

Other than trucks, there hasn't really been cars I've lusted after that have been made since I've had a driver's license. We're talking a number of decades here.

Gov't couldn't even help the guy they made the face of the War on Poverty.

How do you figure?

Good or bad, there's one thing you can't take away from hyundai; they have zero design language.

^ Ironic. It's been mentioned more than once on these pages that one of the idealistic benefits of AD is drunks can get home, yet here it changed absolutely nothing. And of course; because it cannot drive on city or residential streets. It's a 'Hey- lookit this!' party trick to date. Other than possibly 'getting the public used to the idea', AD right now is like A/C that only lowers the vehicle's interior temp by 5 degrees.

Not so sure the 'anime frog' look is going to peel off many loyalists, but let's see if it even gets into production yet.

The flip side is that increased stock valuation gives that company more capital to develop excellent out front product. Where would Tesla's products be if the stock was valued all along like it should be, via the fundamentals; below that of Ford?

IF it's bolted in, sure, I can remove it. But I guarantee it'll be spot-welded in place. I need to go into the dealership and see if I can get inside one of these buggies.

Nah again- I removed the entire rear seat on my CC and built custom storage inside. On my generation, the seat bottom folded forward and the seatback folded down. A good all-flat area, but I was still carting around that 'seat volume' when I could instead make that space work for me. The next generation, only the seat bottom folded rearward, making the resulting space much narrower. I need to be able to yank the entire seat out. What the '19s do I don't know yet. EDIT:: Here it is; does the same thing : If that 'bulkhead' is fixed, that would completely suck for my purposes. What's the chances it's bolted in? (zero)

I probably can't even see over the bedrail on that HD; I already know I can barely touch the bedfloor on the 1500 4WD.

Those bed cages are a pain in the ass- it's like a removable hardtop- sometimes you're out & suddenly you need it, and other times you wish you left it home. I drive to the store to pick up 8 bags of Sakrete and it's in the fricking way. A buddy has one on his Ranger so I've handled them- no thanks. I don't really care about the occasional 'weekend yard warrior' and whatever polls they're answering, so while I've swallowed the compromise of going from an 8-ft to a 6.5' bed, 5.5 is probably a no go. I've loaded my 6.5'er to overcapacity (volume-wise) on many occasions, where an 8-ft bed would've helped immensely. But if I go to a n extended cab/6.5'... do I give up too much on interior space vs. the crew cab? BTW, I still have to investigate how easily the back seats come out of these- they haven't been putting air bags or other nonsense in the back seats of pickups yet, have they?

I've seen the vids on SuperCruise. Like you said- a handful offer the option, but it's extremely limited; 95% of the time it'll never/cannot be used, and it doesn't change the manufacturing aspect. It's a gimmick right now. Fully autonomous, level 5 cars may well require different/dedicated manufacturing (I actually don't think so), but that's much farther out than a mere 10 years to be 'mainstream'. It's still weird how the 2 are being so readily velcro'd together.

That (the HD) is NOT attractive. I don't even know WHAT it is. However, that side bed step is genius!

I also saw a new Sierra a week ago or so, a Denali but it was a kinda icky beige color. Looked great tho. Stopped at my Chevy dealer yesterday- saw they had 2 more '19 SIlverado LTs (still hiding them on the back lot) so I had to fog the windows a bit. Nice dark blue and the Canjun Red, both 5.3L/8-spds. 49K and 55K. Both had the $900 'Safety Package', which I wouldn't want, and the blue job was on 18s... I think these need the 20s to fill the wheelwells better. I occurred to me that it's possible I could move to a double cab/6.5' bed... just not sure yet. Don't know if I would regret a (crew)/5.5-bed- it's so small.

Its interesting, but perhaps premature, to see journalistic sources continue to zip tie electrics and autonomous vehicles together, when 1. they really don't have anything to do with each other technologically, and 2. at least EVs are real and finding a few buyers. The autonomous thing is still a pipe dream WRT building a whole different type of car from a manufacturing standpoint. True AD vehicles are going to trail EVs by decades. There's plenty of time.