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In the oilfield service business we made an open box with a plywood floor and 2x12 sides to prevent wellheads from rolling around and smashing the walls of the pickup bed. Helped keep the bed clean, too.

My 95-gallon wheeled garbage can with my Garbage Commander.

They say when you age you cage. That's true for me. Rode about 100,000 miles on two wheels, 67,000 of them on a Yamaha V-Max, and owned a number of motorcycles. Put my kickstand down for good when I turned 67 and switched to Jeeps. Figured I had stretched my luck far enough. Read about my...

Upon further reflection the Fiat 500e was discontinued for 2026 and replaced with the hybrid Abbrida. The unit above is two years old and used, but still very attractively priced.

I just checked and it is still available for that price.

You are correct, Sir. In fact that is how I bought my 21 Nacho Gladiator in 2023. It was in Manheim PA and I am in East Texas. Guess I'm not that motivated after all.

If that deal was near me I would jump on it. I did a quick Google search and the only thing close was a used 2024 Fiat 500e for $24,000.

The Fiat is at a Ram dealer because Fiat bought Chrysler, Dodge, Ram and Jeep and renamed themselves Stellantis. In 1970, I was stationed in West Germany and bought a used Fiat 850. If someone had told me then that Fiat would one day own Chrysler/Jeep I would have told them that they had...

The lowering kit will help a lot. Too bad it will not be all wheel drive.

What class would it be in? What would it be running against?

No stranger to small pickups. I had a 1995 Nissan compact pickup. Put 120,000 miles on it. Traded in 2009 in the Obama Cash for Clunkers for a midsize Toyota Tacoma Access Cab kept until 2023 when I purchased yet another midsize truck, albeit a four door Jeep Gladiator Rubicon. Looking forward...

A butt-o-meter ! Evidently I was not issued one of those. My purchase decisions have mostly been based on emotion. I have to be smitten, infatuated. The Nacho Jeep Gladiator Rubicon Truck in my avatar is a good example. Purchased used, sight unseen and shipped 1800 miles. I had never driven...

The Subaru Brat bed mounted seats was a workaround to classify it as an SUV instead of a truck. The Johnson 25% "Chicken Tax" tariff also applied to Japanese trucks. Subsequently modified by Reagan to close the chassis cab loophole, it ultimately prompted the Japanese to move production into...

Yes. Houston has some HOV lanes that require 3 or more riders during peak hours.

It's just that it reminds me of the reporter who asked a little old lady what she thought of her first visit to a nude beach. "Somehow, I feel cheated."

And on the HOV 3+ lanes a Slate truck will need the optional SUV package. No $7,500 tax credit, no HOV lane. Remind me, why I should buy one. For three years on my commute to work my Yamaha V-Max got 40 mpg and passed 1,000 bumper to bumper vehicles as I cruised 11 miles of HOV lane. I was...

The tax credit is cruel. It favors the wealthy who have no need for it and is of no help to lower income people who need it the most. It amounts to a regressive tax. Obama's Cash for Clunkers credit was even more cruel as it also removed perfectly good affordable used cars from the market.

Dealers do not lease cars themselves but instead sell them to leasing companies. The leasing company, or lessor, is the actual owner of the vehicle during the lease term, while the dealership acts as an intermediary. There should be no impediment to leasing a Slate.

$7,500 is a huge incentive. It needs to happen.

That I do not understand. Why wouldn't they?