Here’s a short video monologue about the ’25 Chevy Silverado – which is remarkable because it still can be had with three things that are becoming not only hard-to-find in other trucks but unavailable in many new half-ton trucks: A V8 engine. A regular cab. An eight foot bed.
It make you feel a lot like the Soviet-era immigrant who visited an American supermarket and saw the shelves had food on them!
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How many 8 foot bed, V8, single cab are there on dealer lots? Good luck. Guessing if you want one you will have to order it.
California adds more crazy climate change rules that will increase gas prices. Morons.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/california-tightens-climate-fuel-rules-could-add-050gallon-gas-prices
Even Katie Hobbs, the leftist Democrat governor of Arizona, complained to Gavin Newsom about these new regs. Arizona gets about half its gasoline from the west coast. It will end up paying dearly for Commiefornia’s climate-change whims.
But Gavin folded Katie’s letter into a paper airplane and sailed it out the window with a carefree laugh, while admiring his own striking good looks in a hand mirror. He’s got bigger fish to fry, like fighting fascism [/sarc] and resisting Trump’s War on CARB.
Indeed, Jim –
But the wheel is turning, I think. Newsom is a very rich man, like Pritzker and Biden and so many of these fraudulent “Democrats.” The people are done with being impoverished and talked down-to by these arrogant, super-rich bastards.
Yeah: That’s a good truck. There is a decent amt of room behind the back seat in the regular cab. I was very close to buying one, but the “active fuel management system” shooed me off. That system is very bad, and you should disable it. Got an F150 2.7L ecoboost instead. Eh, the turbos are somewhat complicated, but they are *external* to the engine. The active fuel management cuts off cylinders by purposely collapsing lifters, and that system causes the lifters to go bad, which is internal engine work.
That happened to the hemi in my ram.
I will never buy another “fuel management” engine again.
My 2017 GMC has active fuel management. Bought an OBD plug-in from Range Technologies, now it is a a full-time V8.
Notice how the hood is elevated, so that the bottom of the windshield is about four inches higher than the bottom of the side window.
Functionally necessary? I doubt it. Tall grille and hood is a trend started by Ram about twenty years ago, to give piddling pickups a big-boy, semi-truck look. Now any 130-lb weakling can pose as a drug-store, truck-drivin’ man.
Any off-road functionality this honking giant possesses is diminished by the fact that you can’t see anything closer than thirty feet in front of you. And it’s no use for impressing the distaff side: they too drive these outsized contraptions, despite having to scramble up like a monkey to the drivers seat.
Contemporary pickups are 3-ton comic book fantasies brought to life in sheet metal, with $80K price tags. Whereas you can buy a quite stylish pink silk codpiece for mere two hundred Biden bucks. And if that don’t fetch the ladies, then I don’t know Arkansaw.
He’s a drug store truck drivin’ man
He’s the head of the Ku Klux Klan
When summer rolls around
He’ll be lucky if he’s not in town
— The Byrds, Drug Store Truck Drivin’ Man
I have a 1991 Silverado, two door eight foot bed, two wheel drive. The design mod early ‘90s was a somewhat streamlined front end compared to the mid ‘80s squared off GM trucks. My hood slopes down towards the front, sight lines all around are decent. Biggest benefit to aging boomers is it’s about as easy to hop in and out as a ‘56 Chevy car. Really comfortable bench seat and no console to restrict man spreading. A new Silverado rolled up next to me in town. I swear his door handle was about even with the midpoint of my side window, sheesh, no thanks!
Happened to take my 2500hd up a muddy mountain road today going hunting. Had to pull myself toward the steering wheel to see the road.
I prefer regular cab trucks, I have a 2006 Nissan Frontier XE king cab 4×2, but only because it was $1000 because it needed a new transmission because of SMOD.
I searched for quite a while to find a regular cab long bed pickup. Finally found a used one in St. Louis. Afterwards, I discovered it has “active fuel management” which translated to English is cylinder deactivation (i.e. making it a 4 cylinder when under less load). Couldn’t have that, so bought an IBD plug-in from Range Technologies that disables it, and now I have a full time V8.
Trucks need power to do truck stuff. I ain’t pulling an 18′ trailer with thousands of pounds of hit n miss engines with a 4-cylinder turbo. While I have no use for a crew cab, the extended cab is nice to lean the seat back.
Dollar General, the 2 liter crossover of retail.