Nobody is currently selling new, small pickups. Maybe if the Slate materializes, that'll prove the market and we'll see them again.
In the meantime, 200x Ford Ranger or 200x Chevy S-10 are the last of the small pickups where you can get a 6 foot bed and a single row of seats. (Afaik)
I sold my small white pickup once, and ended up with a different small white pickup a few years later. I do enough (small) truck things that having a truck on hand just in case is worth it for me; but even with minimal miles per year there's certainly added expense from maintenance some of which ends up being time based, registration fees, and incremental costs for liability insurance on another vehicle. For quite a while, my family vehicles were a 4-door car/wagon and a small pickup, but that doesn't work for everyone; I feel better served with a minivan, a 4-door phev, and a pickup (and a silly old rear engined vw van with only the front seats, mostly for midlife crisis, but also handy for picking up large items that don't want to be inside for transport)
There's no market for new small work trucks because nobody is willing to sell them. Not because nobody is willing to buy them.
People who need work trucks end up getting f-150 or similar, work vans, or buying used. There was a used car lot in my old neighborhood that specialized in work trucks. It would be 75% white single cab trucks, 20% white panel vans, and then 5% work trucks and vans in colors.
Well CAFE standards say don't bother making small vehicles. And manufacturers say oh darn, we have to make the vehicles with lots of profits? Well sorry small truck buyers, we're out.
The screenshots don't show spoofed SMS. Who is going to spoof a +212 or a +27 phone number when sending to the US. It's not that easy to get spoofed SMS to the US anymore. But it doesn't matter if sending from an international number works just fine. Same thing with email, but often worse ... DMARC makes it hard to spoof email, but most email clients only show sender name and not sender address, so it doesn't matter.
Phone call caller ID is getting harder to spoof, with stir/shaken, but I'm not sure that's fully rolled out either... and calls from a 'random' number still get answered, so spoofing isn't needed for normal scams.
The article goes on to say that they had $5B net wealth around the time of the incident. It's not that unreasonable to get a loan of 20% of your wealth in a hurry, especially if said loan immediately benefits the lenders.
It's a lot harder to source ram with known errors than it is to get clean stuff, cause most of the stuff with known errors will be tossed. Makes sense to save it.
> However, big caveat - it's self-reported. If you look at how many people get disability benefit it's around 10%.
I don't know about the UK, but in the US, in order to get social security disability, you need to have a documented disability and there's also income limits. If you have a disability, but you manage to find a career despite the disability, you'll lose eligibility for social security disability or at least you'll lose the social security payments. Depending on the disabilities in question, I think it's reasonable that 60% of people with a disability can find work that pays enough that they are no longer eligible for a disability payment and/or they've reached the age where they get a retirement/old age insurance benefit rather than disability.
> Not minding viewed ads, so viewers are punished with duplicate ads plays if they close or skip by accident (Netflix is mindful of this)
The Roku Channel used to be really bad at this; I had a bad experience over a year ago and avoided it until recently as they carry a show I was watching that left another platform in the past couple months and it's good at this now.
Of course, it still has the basic issues that make me skip back after ad breaks frequently. a) they consistently insert ads slightly offset of the intended insertion points; b) the ad has different audio/video/hdcp properties than the content its inserted into, so my receiver (and sometimes my tv) blanks audio to resync when the content resumes.
I'm not thrilled that Amazon added ads into their streaming product, but at least the insertions are well timed and I don't recall audio dropouts when content is resumed (but maybe I missed it).
> But they're illegal in F1 - because they make the car sound boring.
I can confirm, my CMAX has an eCVT, and the engine noises are boring. Either it's off, or it's running in a pretty limited range, you can get a bit of fun rev increasing noises if you drive it just right... but mostly boring. My 81 VW Vanagon is much more fun to drive even if it's objectively worse at everything in terms of acceleration, top speed, wheel slip, etc; although the turning circle on the cmax is garbage, so the vanagon wins there. The VW makes fun sounds as you go from low rpm to redline several times as you work through the gears, and the cmax is just droning along.
At least around me, there's a good number for sale. Lots more if you don't mind water cooling and/or subaru engine swaps.
Mostly parts are available; although some things need creativity: federal EGR filters are unobtainable so people might EGR delete instead, rear side markers aren't available, so you have to use Mercedes G-Wagon parts (but they used to use Vanagon parts and scratch off the logos!), I had to adapt a crankcase ventilation valve from a different car because they don't make the ones for mine anymore. Also, headlight switches are available new, but the molds are wrong, so they break when installing (I found a used one, and added headlight relays to reduce the current going through the switch). Oh, and I'm in the second year of ownership, so I started getting fun problems where it runs ok at home but not on the road.
When it is running though, you almost have to drive the snot out of it... Otherwise it'll take an hour to get up to speed.
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