Well I mean its a truck, so its front heavy when unloaded, and something like the ridge line is only going to have a rated bed capacity of something like 1000 pounds (I couldn't find it on the website), so front wheel drive should be just fine most of the time. It also has optional AWD if your serious about hauling shit around and using it as a truck.
I still think they should have kept it as a multifunction vehicle like the 1st gen, just with refreshed tech. Seats 5 like a civic and I can haul shit around occasionally? Yes please.
Well I mean its a truck, so its front heavy when unloaded, and something like the ridge line is only going to have a rated bed capacity of something like 1000 pounds (I couldn't find it on the website), so front wheel drive should be just fine most of the time. It also has optional AWD if your serious about hauling shit around and using it as a truck.
I still think they should have kept it as a multifunction vehicle like the 1st gen, just with refreshed tech. Seats 5 like a civic and I can haul shit around occasionally? Yes please.
That's called a Ranger, Amarok, or Hilux.
If I could get ANY of those in the US I would be all over them. My current Fav is the Chevy Colorado Diesel. So damned expensive though. You're looking at $40000 US for a decently kitted out version.
Well I mean its a truck, so its front heavy when unloaded, and something like the ridge line is only going to have a rated bed capacity of something like 1000 pounds (I couldn't find it on the website), so front wheel drive should be just fine most of the time. It also has optional AWD if your serious about hauling shit around and using it as a truck.
I still think they should have kept it as a multifunction vehicle like the 1st gen, just with refreshed tech. Seats 5 like a civic and I can haul shit around occasionally? Yes please.
The U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) has placed an order for militarized Toyota Land Cruisers, Hiluxes and Ford Rangers to use as low-profile but battle-survivable field vehicles. That’s provided the prototypes pass muster in military evaluations, of course.
Defense contractor Battelle of Columbus, Ohio has been awarded up to $170 million to build “as many as 556 vehicles—396 armored and 160 unarmored—with most of them consisting of the Toyota Land Cruiser models 76 and 79,” Military Aerospace reports.
That would be the beloved and boxy “70 Series” in SUV and pickup-truck form.
Battelle’s press release says they’ll also be preparing Toyota Hilux and Ford Ranger pickups for military use, all of which will be designed to look like regular trucks.
Underneath the stock-apperance exterior, the 4x4s will have various configurations of armoring, upgraded suspension, brakes, reinforcements to the body and frame, infrared lighting, night vision, military communications and recon equipment (C4ISR), a “blackout mode” that presumably kills all lights, and “tires designed to survive enemy small-arms fire.”
I rather like the new Ford Ranger, as per the MCM "review" they filmed. It makes me sad that it isn't available in North America.
I never finish anyth
+1
Options
webguy20I spend too much time on the InternetRegistered Userregular
Yea there are a ton of light trucks available to the rest of the world that we're never going to see, or it'll be 25 years till people start importing them.
As an unintended consequence several importers of light trucks have circumvented the tariff via loopholes—including Ford (ostensibly a company that the tax was designed to protect), which imports the Transit Connect light trucks as "passenger vehicles" to the U.S. from Turkey and immediately strips and shreds portions of their interiors, such as installed rear seats, in a warehouse outside Baltimore.
Edit: I found this while trying to establish if the Mitsubishi L200 is sold in the states (it isn't)
And we don't have such a tax in Canada. We're just too damn close to the Americans and too small a market to bother with catering to specifically.
So yeah thanks America.
The Canadian car market is smaller than the Australian car market?
Probably more to do with the US being RIGHT THERE than actual market size.
Actually, probably has more to do with Australia being RIGHT THERE next to Japan, and both being right hand drive. A lot of money would go into making a vehicle left hand drive for Canada, and when you can't also sell in the US too, is it really worth it?
So we get stiff once in a while. So we have a little fun. What’s wrong with that? This is a free country, isn’t it? I can take my panda any place I want to. And if I wanna buy it a drink, that’s my business.
And we don't have such a tax in Canada. We're just too damn close to the Americans and too small a market to bother with catering to specifically.
So yeah thanks America.
The Canadian car market is smaller than the Australian car market?
Probably more to do with the US being RIGHT THERE than actual market size.
Actually, probably has more to do with Australia being RIGHT THERE next to Japan, and both being right hand drive. A lot of money would go into making a vehicle left hand drive for Canada, and when you can't also sell in the US too, is it really worth it?
As an unintended consequence several importers of light trucks have circumvented the tariff via loopholes—including Ford (ostensibly a company that the tax was designed to protect), which imports the Transit Connect light trucks as "passenger vehicles" to the U.S. from Turkey and immediately strips and shreds portions of their interiors, such as installed rear seats, in a warehouse outside Baltimore.
Edit: I found this while trying to establish if the Mitsubishi L200 is sold in the states (it isn't)
Is the growth on the back of that a removable bed cover, or... like, is the elephantiasisish styling intended?
Pretty sure Ford has been carefully watching Colorado/Canyon sales to see if they should jump in with the Ranger, and all indications are that those trucks are doing well.
You can't really carry stuff in a pickup in the UK without one
0
Options
Donovan PuppyfuckerA dagger in the dark isworth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered Userregular
The Mitsubishi Triton is NOT an attractive vehicle. The Ranger, Amarok, Colorado, BT-50, DMAX, Navara, hell basically every other ute on the market looks way better.
0
Options
Donovan PuppyfuckerA dagger in the dark isworth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered Userregular
And we don't have such a tax in Canada. We're just too damn close to the Americans and too small a market to bother with catering to specifically.
So yeah thanks America.
The Canadian car market is smaller than the Australian car market?
Probably more to do with the US being RIGHT THERE than actual market size.
Actually, probably has more to do with Australia being RIGHT THERE next to Japan, and both being right hand drive. A lot of money would go into making a vehicle left hand drive for Canada, and when you can't also sell in the US too, is it really worth it?
Well, mainland Europe is left hand drive, too
And there are plenty of other places where these utes are sold that are left hand drive, the Middle East, many African nations, various countries across Asia...
Just sort of... Ok... I kinda did just eat a bunch... A lot... of mushrooms.
And I grew up in PA, which the PT cruiser thing kinda rips on a little too accurately.
And spent a while in shitty cars.
But, that's... Like... If I could make everyone watch that so they got the joke, would consider owning a pt cruiser instead of my current fucking Fiat 500
I need to think about my life choices.
Edit: holy fuck he's doing the voice over with the owner standing next to him.
Yeah Regular Cars does some rather specific PA humour. Not being from there I don't get some of it, but I laugh sympathetically. It's a Canadian thing.
If you send your fucked-up Rolls Royce to them, they will restore it to concourse condition.
It'd cost a LOT more than USD$200k, though...
+1
Options
Nova_CI have the needThe need for speedRegistered Userregular
I contacted my old mechanic to do some work for me when I next travel south. I live in Yellowknife and a basic servicing is, like, $200 up here, so if I'm going to be in Calgary I usually get the mechanic I used while I lived there to do the work. I have driving down south in a week. I e-mailed my mechanic two months ago to schedule to work.
What I want done is more than just an oil change, though. New wheels, tires, brakes and exhaust. I picked a Borla stainless exhaust (Finally they have after market parts for the non-turbo 2009 Impreza) to put on. I want the stainless more than I want the performance upgrade, but I figured it would be nice to get both.
Because I'm driving down for a trip I have zero flexibility to my schedule. The car can be unavailable to me for a total of two days. The work has to be done on one or both of those two days. If it can't, then the work can't be done at all. I contacted them that long ago to make sure that everything would be lined up.
Just got word - they tried ordering all the parts TODAY and the exhaust won't be there in time.
So no exhaust upgrade.
I'm super disappointed in that shop. It's a reliable, trustworthy shop, but this is just amateur.
Any chance you could call Borla direct and get them to drop-ship it to the mechanic? Explain your dilemma, see if overnight or two day is possible. Then tell the mechanic to deduct the shipping from your total bill because of their fuckup.
Posts
That's called a Ranger, Amarok, or Hilux.
Holden HSV Ute
You can't give someone a pirate ship in one game, and then take it back in the next game. It's rude.
If I could get ANY of those in the US I would be all over them. My current Fav is the Chevy Colorado Diesel. So damned expensive though. You're looking at $40000 US for a decently kitted out version.
Origin ID: Discgolfer27
Untappd ID: Discgolfer1981
That reminds me of an interesting story - the US military is looking into technicals:
I never finish anyth
Origin ID: Discgolfer27
Untappd ID: Discgolfer1981
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax
Edit: I found this while trying to establish if the Mitsubishi L200 is sold in the states (it isn't)
So yeah thanks America.
I never finish anyth
The Canadian car market is smaller than the Australian car market?
Probably more to do with the US being RIGHT THERE than actual market size.
Actually, probably has more to do with Australia being RIGHT THERE next to Japan, and both being right hand drive. A lot of money would go into making a vehicle left hand drive for Canada, and when you can't also sell in the US too, is it really worth it?
Well, mainland Europe is left hand drive, too
Is the growth on the back of that a removable bed cover, or... like, is the elephantiasisish styling intended?
http://www.chron.com/cars/news/article/Report-The-Ford-Ranger-is-coming-back-in-2019-7631400.php#photo-1368023
The 2019 Ranger is supposed to be returning to the US. Nothing confirmed yet, but lots of smoke.
You can't give someone a pirate ship in one game, and then take it back in the next game. It's rude.
Somebody drew that, put it down on a piece of paper, looked at it and said "Mmm... yeah."
You can't really carry stuff in a pickup in the UK without one
And there are plenty of other places where these utes are sold that are left hand drive, the Middle East, many African nations, various countries across Asia...
Filed under "things that make you go (sob)".
And I'm not coming up with much.
I'm guessing she was actually trying to pull out and just had 1st and reverse messed up.
She tried to drive forward off of it, apparently. Something to do with that maybe.
The end of that gave me flashbacks. Because the car I learned to drive in was an 87 Plymouth Horizon.
...I didn't say they were good flashbacks.
It's an amusement park where... Ughhh...
Fuck...
Like Hairspray was filmed there.
Edit: fuck, I can't awesome and agree with the other cruiser review.
Edit 2: wow, i say fuck a lot when reminded of my roots.
Edit 3: fuck.
Edit 4: edit 3 was a fake edit.
And I grew up in PA, which the PT cruiser thing kinda rips on a little too accurately.
And spent a while in shitty cars.
But, that's... Like... If I could make everyone watch that so they got the joke, would consider owning a pt cruiser instead of my current fucking Fiat 500
I need to think about my life choices.
Edit: holy fuck he's doing the voice over with the owner standing next to him.
Edit 2: wow i say fuck a lot.
I never finish anyth
Now they just need to make a production model.
Tow it with a Range Rover not rated for the combined car + trailer weight.
Or equipped with an anti-sway hitch.
http://www.heeze24.nl/home/artikel/7106/Rolls-Royce-uit-1937-total-loss-na-ongeval-Leende-video#1
Oh God, that's painful to look at. :eek:
Steam | XBL
If you send your fucked-up Rolls Royce to them, they will restore it to concourse condition.
It'd cost a LOT more than USD$200k, though...
What I want done is more than just an oil change, though. New wheels, tires, brakes and exhaust. I picked a Borla stainless exhaust (Finally they have after market parts for the non-turbo 2009 Impreza) to put on. I want the stainless more than I want the performance upgrade, but I figured it would be nice to get both.
Because I'm driving down for a trip I have zero flexibility to my schedule. The car can be unavailable to me for a total of two days. The work has to be done on one or both of those two days. If it can't, then the work can't be done at all. I contacted them that long ago to make sure that everything would be lined up.
Just got word - they tried ordering all the parts TODAY and the exhaust won't be there in time.
So no exhaust upgrade.
I'm super disappointed in that shop. It's a reliable, trustworthy shop, but this is just amateur.