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Originally Posted by lookout123
Wagoner is an asshat, but no reason for you to be.
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Everything I have posted is what your best friend and an honest person would say. Nothing posted here by me is typical of an asshat. If you don't think so, well, thank you for your honesty and sorry you don't know what honesty looks like.
Half ton pickup is a perfect example of why GM products consume so much energy wastefully. A pickup properly designed would be front wheel drive (drive wheels should be located where most of the vehicle's weight is located), would weight less than a passenger car (pickups don't have therefore don't need more weight than a same size car), would be much lower, and would have higher ground clearance like a Humvee.
But that means a pickup must be designed. Pickups are a hodgepodge thrown together without integrating the design. Why are pickups so high but have so little ground clearance? Consuming all that more space and adding additional steel (that adds weight but does not increase strength) are easier to design and build.
Why is that pickup truck bed so high? If should be only half as high while the pickup has more ground clearance. But again, that would require an integrated design, using front wheel drive, and stop using simpler parts from other older vehicles.
Of course, an integrated design would mean more engineering. Better is to cut costs, keep the truck heavy, make it higher (to appease egos), and still use those 1968 technology drive trains and engines. Then a pickup that could easily sell at a profit for maybe $12,000 can be hyped into a $25,000 truck.
Pickups are a perfect example of obsolete technology vehicles, grossly overweight, with poor ground clearance for a vehicle so high - but hyped like another poor technology product - Harley Davidson motorcycles. GM makes a $5000 profit on pickups. Why make them better, fuel efficient, with the bed at a respectable height, and so much less weight including front wheel drive? Profits on the poor technology vehicle can be hyped even using fancy interiors for a $5000 and $10000 profit. GM profit on cars is estimated to be as high as $300. Better to keep hyping that obsolete technology pickup as 'cool'.
No reason for a pickup to be rear wheel drive - except that it maximizes profits using same 1968 technology engines. No innovation and a hyped image resulting in higher profits. Why is that pickup bed so ridiculously high? Why does a truck with so little weight so much? A properly design pickup should have better fuel economy than a mid sized car. The whole back end is empty space. But that means engineering the truck.