Maxidyne

IIRC the RM hood was shorter.

Being a geek, I read the specs first... This thing is as wide as an F150! The Jeeps have gotten porky, but this is really the return of the full size big Bronco. No weight given, but this thing has to be at least as heavy as the 2 (metric) ton F150 4x4. That said, with a base price under $30k the mall parking lots will soon be full of 'em. More tempting is the Bronco Sport, as it's based on the same platform as the AWD Escape which means independent suspension at both ends and more interior space that the bulky Bronco. Only slightly heavier than the AWD Escape which with the 2 liter Ecoboost's 250 horses should give a healthy power/weight ratio. Better yet, the price is about the same as an AWD Escape!

Take care of yourself Rowdy, see the doctor(s)!

So you're all trying to tell me that medical professionals have forged hundreds of thousands of death certificates?

No, it's science, which sure as hell beats ignorance!

One of the measures of the severity of a disaster is the undercount of deaths- For example we still don't have a certain count of the fatalities in the Galveston hurricane, the great Mississippi flood of the 1920s, and the recent hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico. This undercount has occurred again in hard hit areas of the NY metro area when the hospitals and ambulance services  were so overwhelmed that many COVID-19 sufferers never made it to the hospital and got tested and diagnosed with COVID-19. Fortunately the statisticians can pretty accurately give us a count by comparing the number of deaths from past years with the death count during the worst of the pandemic, and those stats show that if anything, COVID-10 deaths are being undercounted.

20 minutes ago, fjh said:

Yup remember everybody is saddled with the same rubbish to add on to meet  the emissions , Must be some other stigma! ? Maybe the VW People Are Evil !?🤪

Navistar tried to meet EPA 2010 standards without DEF, and it was a disaster. Most of the used truck buyers don't follow the markets and still think it's International, have never heard of Navistar or NAV, and know nothing of the Traxon/VW Group acquisition.

27 minutes ago, kscarbel2 said:

I don't know about that. Today's market doesn't look back very far.

I think the retail buyer still remembers all the problems with the Maxxforce engines, at the wholesale level they know everyone had emissions systems problems but they price it in anyways. But those trucks have clearly been tough to remarket- Why else would Navistar dump them in Vietnam?

2 hours ago, kscarbel2 said:

The MAN D26 (Navistar A26) is proven superb powerplant.

I agree, but the market seems to still associate them with the earlier engines emission system problems.

I suspect so.

True- I haven't seen prices that low on late model class 8 Internationals, but if it has the Navistar/MAN engine it tends to have the worst resale of any truck brand.

Just checked the local paper, make that 4 dead in the second county of not even 10,000 population.

2 of the 3 counties I mentioned have 2 each dead. I think you're pretty smart, at least as regards trucks, but I'll respect you're right to call yourself "dummy".

You're not seeing many cases because you live in a remote rural area. That is exactly what the models predicted back in march- Big cities would see peak cases first, and some rural areas wouldn't see many cases until mid summer. Rural county of 25,000 that I live in saw a big increase in cases last month, just as predicted. Smaller and even more isolated rural county southwest of mine had gone from 15 cases to over 60 in less than two weeks. Even smaller and more remote county to the west has cases taking off now, one of the workers in the country club restaurant where they weren't wearing masks just tested positive and they're having to shut the town down again. Dummies think that because the virus didn't hit their town yet that it's a false alarm, so they let their guard down and when the virus comes, they get hit hard!

Yup, they make Ford look like a bargain! No doubt the VW Group/Traxon merger is priced into Navistar's market value, if that deal falls through NAV will crash.

Finance running auto and truck manufacturing seems to be the trend-  the Japanese makers have long taken orders from the banks, FCA and GM owe their lives to Treasury, and Ford is now deeply indebted to the Fed for their continued existence. As for automakers making big trucks, they're too addicted to billion dollar investments in new models and vehicle a minute line rates to stomach the big truck biz. That leaves an opening for a billionaire investor, private capital, or China... 

1 hour ago, kscarbel2 said:

The experience of one individual, Richard Quest, with Covid19

The cough has come back, without warning and seemingly for no reason; so has the fatigue. True, neither are as debilitating as when I had the actual virus, but they are back.

Like many others, I am now coming to realize that I am living and suffering from the long tail of Covid-19.

I got infected back in mid-April. The onset of symptoms came quickly. I suddenly noticed I was feeling very tired and I had a new cough. I got tested and the morning after I received a phone call from the medical center, I had tested positive for coronavirus.

The virus is like a tornado. When it lands, it swirls through the body, causing chaos, confusion, coughs, wreaking damage to each organ it touches. Some won't survive its visit. For those that do, when it has gone, one surveys the damage to the human landscape and realizes it's much greater than first thought. My symptoms were on the milder side: I never had breathing difficulties, or loss of sense or smell. I was wiped-out tired and I always had "the cough," which has now returned.

 

The Covid cough is not like your usual cough-it-up deep cough (what doctors politely call a "productive cough.") It is very distinctive. It is a dry, raspy, wheezy, cough. In my case, lots of short, expelling gasps of air, followed by a long, deep, chest-wrenching expiration cough, that has standers by wondering if I am going to keel over.

I have tested negative for the virus and positive for the antibodies, and my doctor says it won't return. But there are days when I feel that it has.

I am also discovering new areas of damage: I have now become incredibly clumsy. I was never the most lissome person, no one ever called me graceful, but my clumsiness is off the chart. If I reach for a glass, or take something out of a cupboard, I will knock it, or drop it on the floor. I have tripped over the curb and gone flying. I fall over furniture. It is as if that part of my brain, which subconsciously adjusts hand and movement to obstacles it sees, isn't working.

At times there's a sense of mild confusion. The micro delay in a thought, the hesitation with a word. Nobody would notice but me.

My digestive system is peculiar, to say the least.

It doesn't matter whether I call them symptoms, traits, or wreckage -- my body doesn't feel quite right.

The doctors try to reassure me, saying, this will wear off, but they can't tell me when. Last week was bad. The cough has been with me for days, I have been tired and needed to take naps. I tripped over the camera tripod then fell over a chair! I am concerned but not panicked, yet. This week already feels much better.

For those who have not had Covid, or witnessed the mess it leaves behind, again, I urge you, do whatever you can to avoid this tornado.

It will roar through the body -- kill some on the way -- injure all in its path -- and then when you think "well, thank God that's gone," look around, the damage is strewn everywhere and will be with you long after the crisis has passed.

Covid is a tornado with a very long tail.

In war, the surviving wounded much more sap a nation's resources than the dead- While the dead can quickly be buried, the wounded will need to be cared for, sometimes for decades. The loss of the wounded's labors can be just as tragic as the loss of the dead's labors, and the wounded usually far outnumber the dead. We've only got six months experience with COVID-19, but from what we've seen so far the long term disability caused by the virus is a long term threat to our health care system's capacity and the health of our economy.

34 minutes ago, tjc transport said:

ONE LAST TIME.....DROP IT OR THIS THREAD WILL BE LOCKED. 

And respecting the mods, this will be my last post on this thread.

Sorry, never took that college course. You're getting entertaining- What other conspiracy theories ya got?

Charlottesville? Was there ever even a truck show there?

1 minute ago, Mack Technician said:

You also said “you don’t feel safe”.

When?

Sorry, never been there. Got any better conspiracy theories?

Actually, it works the opposite- The union jobs have the best combination of pay and benefits, so they attract the best workers. Almost every time I've applied for a union or government job there's been at least 10 times as many applicants as positions, applying for nonunion jobs often anyone who met the minimum requirements was hired. 

28 minutes ago, Mack Technician said:

Last time she accused the BMT antique truck members of plotting to kill or attack her at a truck show. Funny how history repeats itself. 

When and where was this?

41 minutes ago, hatcity said:

Maxidyne, does this ring a bell?

Yall didn’t worry about military weapons then

So am I supposed to be intimidated or something?