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[J Alynn]

Not to be confused with the Canyonero.

Can you name the truck with four wheel drive,
smells like a steak and seats thirty-five..

Canyonero! Canyonero!

Well, it goes real slow with the hammer down,

It's the country-fried truck endorsed by a clown!

Canyonero! (Yah!) Canyonero!

[Krusty:] Hey Hey

The Federal Highway commission has ruled the
Canyonero unsafe for highway or city driving.

Canyonero!

12 yards long, 2 lanes wide,
65 tons of American Pride!

Canyonero! Canyonero!

Top of the line in utility sports,
Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts!

Canyonero! Canyonero! (Yah!)

She blinds everybody with her super high beams,
She's a squirrel crushing, deer smacking, driving machine!

Canyonero!-oh woah, Canyonero! (Yah!)

Drive Canyonero!

Woah Canyonero!

Woah!

Now I want to hear you sing that at a karaoke bar

 

[cyure]

Well I know some people on this forum who would disagree..

Ford Says Towing Is 'Significantly Less Important' For Its $30,000 EV Pickup

Ford is betting that affordability will win out with its $30,000 EV pickup and is skipping all of that fancy truck stuff that most buyers won't use anyway.

insideevs.com

 

[cyure]

Now I want to hear you sing that at a karaoke bar

That’s the first thing I thought of when I head Ranchero.

 

[J Alynn]

Not exactly news related but I came across a crazy video of what appears to be a Ford Mustang Mach E that lost steering and throttle control grinding itself into a barrier while the driver is praying. Has a pretty rough ending.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/s/iXRgUqJJth

OUCH!

 

[J Alynn]

Well I know some people on this forum who would disagree..

Ford Says Towing Is 'Significantly Less Important' For Its $30,000 EV Pickup

Ford is betting that affordability will win out with its $30,000 EV pickup and is skipping all of that fancy truck stuff that most buyers won't use anyway.

insideevs.com

I agree with your statement as far as people on this forum but their logic is also sound in its own right. You’d be amazed at how many people will spend $25,000 to put a large front porch on a house, furnish it, hang plants, etc… then sit on the porch twice a year. So I get their mindset but people won’t change overnight.

 

[SpaceEVDriver]

Well I know some people on this forum who would disagree..

Ford Says Towing Is 'Significantly Less Important' For Its $30,000 EV Pickup

Ford is betting that affordability will win out with its $30,000 EV pickup and is skipping all of that fancy truck stuff that most buyers won't use anyway.

insideevs.com

From the article:

It turns out that Ford's ideal buyer isn't someone who actually wants a truck primarily for truck things at all. In fact, that buyer may very well never even hook up a trailer or fill the bed with mulch ever.

This describes 90% of truck owners in the US. Most truck drivers do not use the truck for “truck things.” It’s really quite frustrating that truck-thing trucks cost so much because they’ve become lifestyle vehicles instead of utility vehicles.

 

[SpaceEVDriver]

Not exactly news related but I came across a crazy video of what appears to be a Ford Mustang Mach E that lost steering and throttle control grinding itself into a barrier while the driver is praying. Has a pretty rough ending.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/s/iXRgUqJJth

Turns out this was a DUI.

 

[Chavannigans]

Turns out this was a DUI.

Bro was so tanked, he thought he was already at confessional

 

[SpaceEVDriver]

Bro was so tanked, he thought he was already at confessional

I should say, alleged DUI.

But, yeah, whatever was going on was very odd, both from a technological and from a human point of view.

 

[SpaceEVDriver]

Love this JerryRigEverything video of the new Lucid Gravity being driven by Zack's partner, Cambry, who is permanently in a wheelchair. The practical aspects of being a wheelchair-bound driver (and parent of two small kids) are explored. Includes some light offroading.

 

[Chavannigans]

Love this JerryRigEverything video of the new Lucid Gravity being driven by Zack's partner, Cambry, who is permanently in a wheelchair. The practical aspects of being a wheelchair-bound driver (and parent of two small kids) are explored. Includes some light offroading.

That crunch

 

[SpaceEVDriver]

Love this JerryRigEverything video of the new Lucid Gravity being driven by Zack's partner, Cambry, who is permanently in a wheelchair. The practical aspects of being a wheelchair-bound driver (and parent of two small kids) are explored. Includes some light offroading.

One of the things I’d never considered is that Cambry is fully in the EV camp for at least one very specific reason: Because they own a home with chargers, Cambry doesn’t have to go to a public refueling station, so the transfer in and out of the vehicle at the gas station is totally unnecessary. That saves her a LOT of time and energy.

 

[SpaceEVDriver]

That crunch

Yeah. I couldn’t tell if they had it on the highest setting. They just announced their Gravity X concept, which is supposed to have better approach and departure angles.

But who knows if this will ever see a production line.

This Is What The Lucid Gravity Looks Like As An Off-Roader

Lucid unveiled a rugged SUV concept based on the Gravity, complete with knobby tires, a roof rack and a cool topographical design.

insideevs.com

 

[Chavannigans]

Forget Netflix, Volkswagen locks horsepower behind paid subscription | Auto Express

Owners can now subscribe to boost the power of their car… for a fee

www.autoexpress.co.uk

“You're used to paying for access to Netflix, Amazon Prime or Disney+ every month but now Volkswagen is getting in on the act. It's asking owners of the ID.3 hatch to pay extra if they wish their car to deliver the full performance it’s capable of.

Yes, you read that correctly: while the Volkswagen ID.3 Pro and Pro S are listed on the configurator as producing 201bhp, buyers must pay a subscription fee to reach the car's full potential of 228bhp.”



God this is worse than the heated seat subscription.

 

[bwdavis7]

Forget Netflix, Volkswagen locks horsepower behind paid subscription | Auto Express

Owners can now subscribe to boost the power of their car… for a fee

www.autoexpress.co.uk

“You're used to paying for access to Netflix, Amazon Prime or Disney+ every month but now Volkswagen is getting in on the act. It's asking owners of the ID.3 hatch to pay extra if they wish their car to deliver the full performance it’s capable of.

Yes, you read that correctly: while the Volkswagen ID.3 Pro and Pro S are listed on the configurator as producing 201bhp, buyers must pay a subscription fee to reach the car's full potential of 228bhp.”



God this is worse than the heated seat subscription.

This is a dreadful trend. I despise this as much as I despise having to buy a car from a dealership. If it is a MUST to pay for performance then give me a lifetime option as you would pay for a larger engine on an ICE vehicle. Subscriptions tend to cost the owner more and more over time. Why do this to encourage buyers to seek jailbreaking options which in turn cost the manufacturer to continuously develop methods to defeat them?
SM has shown a friendly relationship with potential customers. This could be a deal breaker for me if SM adopts this strategy.

 

[dreamweaver]

Acura unveils new RSX: reborn as a sleek electric SUV​

Acura unveils new RSX: reborn as a sleek electric SUV

Acura is bringing back the RSX, but you wouldn’t recognize it. It’s now a sporty electric SUV, and a fairly...

electrek.co

 

[cyure]

They just need to make these affordable ones faster. The lead up time is too long.

Rivian Floats New, More Affordable EVs—But They Could Be a Long, Long Way Off

It seems that the time is ripe to try and announce or get affordable EVs in the marketplace and Rivian just teased out theirs with R4, R5, and R6 nameplates.

bit.ly

 

[SpaceEVDriver]

They just need to make these affordable ones faster. The lead up time is too long.

Rivian Floats New, More Affordable EVs—But They Could Be a Long, Long Way Off

It seems that the time is ripe to try and announce or get affordable EVs in the marketplace and Rivian just teased out theirs with R4, R5, and R6 nameplates.

bit.ly

I’m getting bored with companies joining the foolishness that’s been coming from brand-T for so long: making promises they have no intention of keeping just trying to boost investor interest.

The argument that wagons, subcompacts, etc., don’t sell is disingenuous. They don’t sell because there’s only ever at most one option on the market at a time. They don’t sell because manufacturers don’t make them. They don’t make them because the tax and emissions laws, rules, and regulations—which were written by the automotive and fossil fuel industries—make it most profitable to build very large, very expensive trucks and SUVs, and not to offer the smaller vehicles.

A couple of years ago, Ford’s Farley was adamant that they weren’t going to make what he called “commodity cars.” And now he’s changed his tune. That’s a good thing. I hope others see the value in that.

 

[cyure]

I’m getting bored with companies joining the foolishness that’s been coming from brand-T for so long: making promises they have no intention of keeping just trying to boost investor interest.

The argument that wagons, subcompacts, etc., don’t sell is disingenuous. They don’t sell because there’s only ever at most one option on the market at a time. They don’t sell because manufacturers don’t make them. They don’t make them because the tax and emissions laws, rules, and regulations—which were written by the automotive and fossil fuel industries—make it most profitable to build very large, very expensive trucks and SUVs, and not to offer the smaller vehicles.

A couple of years ago, Ford’s Farley was adamant that they weren’t going to make what he called “commodity cars.” And now he’s changed his tune. That’s a good thing. I hope others see the value in that.

My son is very annoyed all the fun hot hatches are overseas.

And I love that Audi Wagon, but not for $150,000. It’s just nuts.

People need affordable.

And the other thing no one seems to mention is that if we are paying even the average cost of a car, so $50,000, people aren’t going to replace their vehicle every 4 years. The average age is 12. So yes they may get more upfront selling those big cars but now people are keeping them longer because they flat out can’t afford another one.

 

[SpaceEVDriver]

My son is very annoyed all the fun hot hatches are overseas.

And I love that Audi Wagon, but not for $150,000. It’s just nuts.

People need affordable.

And the other thing no one seems to mention is that if we are paying even the average cost of a car, so $50,000, people aren’t going to replace their vehicle every 4 years. The average age is 12. So yes they may get more upfront selling those big cars but now people are keeping them longer because they flat out can’t afford another one.

Exactly.

In 2000, the average age of cars and light trucks was 8 years. That average age has grown by 50% to about 12 years for both and by 75% to 14 years for cars alone. And yes, cars are more reliable now than they’ve ever been in the past, but they're also significantly more expensive relative to wages now than they ever were before. In relative-to-wages terms, their cost is creeping up to the cost of a house compared with the 1980s and earlier.