Hopefully the perceived success of things like the Maverick and the Santa Cruz will remind people that trucks don’t need to blot out the sun to be useful. Read more

“While the Ottawa convoy seemed like a spontaneous grassroots movement, it was actually planned and propelled by people with years of experience in organizing in the far right arena of Canadian politics.” Read more

Stopped clocks are right twice per day. Read more

It’s good to see their terrible methods are at least being motivated by something meaningful instead of patently stupid.   Read more

Not to be conspiracy minded but I wonder if the, er, actual organizers of the ‘freedom convoy’ have a few other pressing problems right now. Read more

I feel like the “What Car should I get?” questions that come out could all be answered with MAVERICK. I just can’t find an Acronym for the Maverick that works. Read more

That’s why I still have my 26 year old Tacoma. Its the teeny tiny one. 2 doors, RWD, 5 speed, crank windows, 6 foot bed. Does all the shit I need to do. It’ll even haul a trailer full of stuff. Plus with a manual I can dog it down at lower speeds. As such, on a good day I can sometimes get close to 30MPG. If Toyota… Read more

Sweden sending 5000 anti-tank missiles to Ukraine seems like a good sign. Read more

The Maverick is one of the few new cars I could see myself buying anytime soon, because I’m a cheap bastard. Of course, because I’m a cheap bastard, it also means nothing new until the market settles down, but that should happen within the Maverick’s first generation (hopefully). Read more

I really hope this whole Ukraine thing completely blows up in Putin’s face. It’s definitely looking that way as Russia’s economy is in absolute shambles after less than a week.
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They are selling extremely well. From what I'm seeing people lucky enough to pay MSRP, or just a little over, are flipping their trucks and still making an extra couple of thousand. I'm waiting for this madness to end before I even try getting a Maverick hybrid at MSRP without any bullshit.  Read more

Maverick. Read more

besides a manual Supra, manual 400Z... or anything with a manual... manual, manual, manual....

In case you all haven’t noticed. We’ve been watching the death of this thing for quite some time. The shit company that bought this brand has choked almost all of its properties in the name of getting every last fucking penny they can out of them. Ultimately at the cost of killing the golden goose. Read more

I agree with both of you. As the article came together it was as if i was writing it myself and in fact I almost didn’t click to read it because i’m sort of underwhelmed with some car topics lately. But after almost 20 years, countless redesigns (some very horrible redesigns that i felt they wanted people to leave),… Read more

I don't usually put out on the first date but.... Read more

This how I feel about it too. I’m surprised no one put old Mercury’s in there.

Hot Take: all popup headlights are bad design. they LOOK COOL but they are worse compared to stationary headlights in every other category.
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Too far left? Only if you’ve never heard of The Overton Window. Read more