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The 2025 F150 still offers a bench, the promo photos of the configurator try to downplay it by only showing it folded down. But you can clearly see the headrest in front of the cupholders. That's really all Ford is required to do for safety. Make sure you don't hit the back glass in a...

I've been looking at the audio configurator so far in the Slate builder and I don't like the idea of the speakers in that little cubby pointed straight at the passengers face, AND that they're inside the cubbies: In my Geo the two 4'' speakers for the front of the truck are dash-mounted, but...

Funnily enough my town still has its AM music station that was founded in '47 running, and I find myself listening to it more often than I would expect given how the reception works out. It makes for good background noise when the rock stations get too grating after the tenth consecutive ad run...

I had a chance to count them up tonight, currently 24 chargers with more marked spots for what looks like another 8. Although a few were in handicap spots. I was playing around with that "A Better Route Planner" website and it actually shows my work's chargers as available... despite them being...

My only worry is that if they are required to put a AM/FM radio in the Slate, they'll have to pick some overly-chrome and LED BestBuy special and slap that in there. Shame the modern radios that match the 'bare bones' ethos of the Slate are either way expensive or... well are old car radios...

I remember seeing ads for the big Saturn homecoming parties they'd throw at the factory. Looks like it was a blast. There's just something about a Hootie and the Blowfish for just one brand's factory that you wouldn't get from a modern automaker. The EV range might affect a Warsaw homecoming...

My mother went out of her way many years ago to buy a fleet-optioned F150 from the local Ford dealer as she wanted nothing that would break. This would have been a 2013 model with crank windows, manual doors, ect. Base V6, simple as you could get it. Blew two heater blower resistors, the right...

Depending on how simple the Slate setup is it may just be looking for that 'on' signal from the reverse lights or however a lot of aftermarket backup cameras are set up... you know, if you wanted to disable it :lipssealed:

I'm a big believer in keeping vehicles fairly factory, but taking advantage of whatever OEM addons they offer for personalization if offered. I can safely say I'd be one of those people who would go all-in on those Subaru lifestyle badges if I owned a Subaru: I just don't get the slatelets...

This is what I'm thinking. The factory looks pretty big. I bet they roll just one model slate off the line for speed's sake and pull completed inventory to the side to make changes to the wheels/lifts/bumpers, etc. No reason why new parts can't go back into the pool. Either that or Slate's...

My apartment-living friend had a second 'sofa' in the living room that was the rear bench seat to his Toyota Previa. Needed the seats out for the rear cargo space and didn't have a garage to store them in! If the hard top roof panels are all separate it wouldn't be too difficult to have a...

This one confused me a bit when I was reading about it as all the way through the 50s, to the 90s you could still option radios out of base and fleet cars. I am assuming this means if your vehicle comes with a radio it has to support AM. If I recall this started with Tesla and a few other OEMs...

I am sure the slate's will be thicker, and we've had 20 years of progress in plastics, but I remember a few Saturns having panels that 'shattered' or had huge cracks develop when I lived in Chicago. Usually this happened in the very cold months. I know two Fiero owners that haven't had this...

Hey, it has the same horn my truck has! I kept its very high pitched eeeeeeep horn since it's part of the trucks charm, but my Fit had a similar horn and I swapped it with a much deeper, normal, Accord horn immediately.

I've heard many horror stories of Subarus in particular having their transmission pans drained by accident by quicklube / DIYers as they're one of the last OEMs that have proper plugs. Certainly could have fooled me looking at pictures of their transmission pans: My dad raves about how great...

Same on the speakers. I'll also hardware a dashcam and a power dimming rear view mirror (depending on how the OEM one is mounted). As long as I have way-too-loud music I'll be happy in whatever! I'll DIY as much as I can. I'm hoping that cable isn't hard-installed into whatever is on the other...

That's pretty amazing, I'll take count tonight how many chargers they put in. I'm in a factory that's still being built-out and is expecting to hire in the thousands by full build-out so I'm expecting a LOT of shuffling of chargers. I know our sister sites have group emails/chats about who's...

LOL, back in 2019-or-so, I sold my '87 LTD to a teenager and his mechanic grandfather. Stood on the hood to show him how thick it was. Ford had advertised in the brochure it was made rolling five layers of steel together. It is amazing the leaps and bounds even in the last 30 years car safety...

I'll probably do it. My 70s garage has the fuse panel right by the garage door. When I first bought the house it still had the original 1970s stab-lok breakers and when I had the panel replaced with Square Ds, I had them put a taller box in so I'd have room for more breakers, expecting at some...

I agree with this, I'm on team paint. A friend has a paint booth for redoing hoods and pickup beds and I hope, if all the panels are removable, to have him give these parts a good paint-over. I just hope the parts are truly 100% removable and none of them are bonded to the car's structure...