A Horse With No Name

In my case used truck market, prices so clsoe to new made sense to buy new. Love this modified Jeep...

Speaking of the electric F150.... I love that Ford is doing this. And a bit of ICE love, adore this old Chevy!

I would have to check on the actual year. I think it is about 4 years old.

I do the same thing kind of. Especially if I am just looking, I do not intend to waste their time or their gasolene with a test drive. Sadly, didn't buy a Gladiator. My salesperson at Jeep was just stellar. Was not interested enough in the Ridgeline to darken the door of the Honda showroom. In a truck frame of mind...love this just fine as ICE...worth every moment to watch.

Actually this discussion is helpful to me as I am learning something about myself as a car buyer and will do it smarter the next time. When I have a bad experience at a dealership, even a dealership I trust, time to try another dealership. Byers has always been good to me, but they kind of let me down this car buying cycle. Had a less than stellar experience with Byers Toyota when I looked at the Tacoma and a dismal experience with Byers Chevrolet when I looked at the Colorado. Both dealers really pushed hard to sell me a crew cab 4wd instead of an extended cab 2wd, and were just not that productive to deal with in terms of checking out the vehicle. Not sure some of the subjective in my mind here is not just my particular experience and not the powerplant. That being said, we have a Traverse as a company vehicle at work that I drive on a fairly regualr basis and an not terribly impressed with it. I really need to get a rental with a 3600 in a RWD configuration and spend some quality time with it when I am not looking at a vehicle to come up with an intelligent opinion I think.

It just didn't feel very responsive. To be fair, I only drove one truck, could have been an issue with that particular truck. But after driving it, Colorado was behind Ranger, Gladiator, and Tacoma in terms of how the power train felt. Just my subjective experience. I will have to try it in a Camaro then. ...and I really don't "want" to dislike the 3600. Would love to own a Blazer V6, given my desire for a mid size SUV as an eventual vehicle as a driveway mate for the Ranger. If the 3600 in the blazer drove well, I definitely would move it up on my list.

Yes I do. I have no problem with the DOHC, just was less impressed with the 3600 when I drove it. For most of the country, not just Tesla. Would love to see Ford build an electric Super Duty for heavyduty use....these people could use a good EV.

I am getting old, that is just my back. Luckjily, they should have the bugs worked out before I buy one, unless I buy a Bronco instead. All the more reason to ahve onboard welding capacity on your rig.

Can you imagine the crawl ratio with one properly set up? Kind of the ultimate Blazer....Rock crawling saturday morning, smooth and quiet to the country club or dinner Saturday night. I agree with you. I think Vw will botch the electric car launch and damage what breand equity they have left.

An EV Blazer would be wildly cool.

Interesting motorsports take on electrics. Makes so much torque it is literally tearing up the driveline in the car.

It is. My other car is a 2004 aveo that I inherited from a relative withy very low miles. Deciding on what to replace it with in a few years. Leaning hard into the Bronco/Wrangler idea, but the number of appealing midsizers like this could cause me to reconsider this. Love the interior.

Should be futon, it will lay down on you. I love the Renegade. Esp in this color.

Good, I am going there next month to walk some civil war battlefields. It will be easier for me to get a room and get into palces to eat. Lovely! Will agree with you on interior quality, but both sedans would rate rather low for me for a number of factors if I were buying a new car. One being depreciation, Hyundai Kia products seem to depreciate like a rock. I do like the Hyundai better than the Chevy, but better options exist than either IMHO.

Nice looking truck though.

My son just bought a 2004 Impala on the west coast with a 3.4, whichever one would have come in that car, presume plain 3400. New 60,000 mile high end radials, synthetic oil changes every 5000 miles since new, very careful and meticulous service records, and he paid a little over a grand for his first car. It's a nice clean ride. 200,000 on the odometer though.

I would like to know more about this and the 3.4 Liter series of motors in early 2000's GM cars. Have heard of lots of trouble with the 3600....this clears things up a bit. My fathers oldmobile was the same way.

Of course, for our ICE fans... That is sad... Would love to build a clone of the GMC with a clapped out S-10 and an eelctric drivetrain....!

Except for the vintage ones you keep at the farm... Love this with the Raptor, want to see the Rivian put to the same test. Seriously. I think with a lower center of gravity and all that torque, it would put down a better time.

Good gentle music for Tuesday. A good college can be over rated. You chose your own path, and it has worked well for you apparently. Bravo and Kudos from me. If I hadn't bought the Ranger or another Truck...something like this might have been good. want a wrangler or Bronco Badly. https://www.cars.com/vehicledetail/detail/819870776/overview/?aff=pkmedia&bac=pkmedia&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIw9jvjt3r6wIVaBP5AB1OSww7EAEYASADEgJee_D_BwE

Meanwhile, in the ICE world....this looks good. Midsized trucks to me are the one real bright spot in the current barren automotive atmosphere.

The bowl most millinelas would understand is called a bong, not a bowl...let's get our terminology right.

Everything analog has become a black art though when it shouldn't be. I am learning how to effectively sharpen chain saw chains...I can get a dozen or so good sharpenings until I mess up the blade geometry and have to take them back to the hardware store to be re sharpened. I even have the fancy tool Stihl sells. Guy who sharpens chains is like 90 years old...does an excellent job...but they cannot find anyone else to sharpen them well. The simplest tasks are starting to elude us as a society, sadly.

Yes, but modern folks can deal with that. Try finding anyone that udnerstands a carburetor... That's why I carry full coverage insurance on everything I own.

Hell yes on the ev Hummer. Hummer H3 SUT type vehicle in Electric would so do it for me. The one vehicle I really want to own before I die...one left on the bukcet list...would be a Wrangler or New Bronco. H3 Type electric hummer would fill that quite nicely. Except that things like the excellent VW Jetta GLI will become less and less common. For me, been with cars so long, finding them boring. Right now, emotionally, trucks scratch that itch. Long term yes but I would give them another eight or ten years. Different tasks. I can have a lot of fun off road with even a 5 thousand dollar cheap 4wd...to take advantadge of a modern shelby or vette, I am at illegal speeds quickly.