Midgates really need to be more of a thing.

For most things I was doing with the R1T bed, I was totally happy with 4.5 ft and would've been fine with even less. But often enough, I would've liked to be able to poke into the cabin for that extra few feet.

Imo the Subaru Baja was headed in the right direction: 3.5 ft long bed and a passthrough. Just wasn't the right time for it, I guess.

Brb ford finally made a 5.0 with an AWD transfer case
On my way to slap a supercharger and launch this to the MOON

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a6...lobo-revealed/

Lebanon ford was already doing warranties 810HP GTs for 50k …. can’t wait for their dirt cheap lobo build.

So I’ve zeroed in on the lightning. I think it makes sense for us 99 percent of the time for what we need it for.

We have to get rid of the wife’s car first(2015 crv touring). Over the last few years the paint on the back of the spoiler has started to peel( apparently common on this age crv w pearl white paint). I was quoted 2-3 k to repaint etc and tbh I don’t have the time to dick around w finding a shop , setting it up , losing a car for a week , then selling it then buying a lightning.

So plan is to sell it as is. If it didn’t have the paint issue I would aim for 15-17 k for a sale(193km ) . But as it does what do y’all think I should ask /sell it for ? Interior is good . No accidents ( I think tbh I can’t recall if it had a claim when we bought it ). It was originally from Winnipeg ( we bought it 1 year old ) .

Dealership offered 10k in a “trade” ( ran it theough the auction) . But as we are leasing it’s the same as cash

how much is a the lease on the lightning? seems like the perfect mix of economy + utility .. other than when you have to tow stuff

900-1300ish depending on trim.

We lease XLT Short Ranges and tow with them a lot - 200-250km city towing range.
$900/mo is cheaper than the gas bill on our 5.0s

It seems like the depreciation curve on used lightnings tapers off. I was hoping to pick a used one for cheap.

Honestly that’s pretty damn good deal for 900 bucks a month. I guess wait for employee pricing and sometimes Costco even has discounts…. Or is that only for GM cars ?

In Canada yeah - generally takes another year or two for prices to really drop because used supply is low.

The additional 25% tariff for upcoming Lightning/price increase doesn’t help either.

This was when we had both rebates from government.
Even without it, truck pays for itself in ~90-100k kms and 4 years.

The gas bills doing 30-35L/100km towing on the gasser 5.0s is insane.

This sentence here is what pushed me and many of my friends over to get EV and never looked back.

Will I ever tow anything? Probably.

Will I ever RV with it? Probably.

Will I ever cannonball down to LA? Probably.

But for 99.9% of all my drivings, an EV would do a better job.

My CT drives easier than the last ICE pickup I had constant access on (F150 Lariat). CT is so much faster and more powerful.
I never need to drop it off for oil change, and I never need to look at gas station signs and complain about the gas price.
I stay warm and cozy when waiting my kids for their hockey at 5:30AM and no need to worry about carbon monoxide poisoning.

A lot of ppl say they aren't going to go EV because "oh, what if I want to tow fully loaded for 5000km non-stop down to Mexico?" when they have never even towed anything out of lower mainland.

They are paying all that extra so that they can stick with the status quo, when there are something better for 99.9% of the time.
Is EV perfect? No. But it is the ultimate city driving machine. There really isn't a single scenario that I can think of in city driving where EV isn't superior.
And really, for 99.99% of RSers, we are all city-babies. Except maybe 68style who had exiled himself. But Calgary is still a city last time I checked. :fuckthatshit:

I pulled the trigger on the lightning. Should be picking it up later this week.
Sub 900 tax in on a 4 year lease. Could have been less but added in stuff like spray in liner etc .

Congrats !! That’s great!!. 500 bucks for a stupid hitlerbox or less than 900 for a huge ass truck that can do it all.

One thing I need to do now is pick up a tonneau cover. Anyone got any thoughts on that? I’m thinking trifold?
I didn’t get from the dealer as I assumed it was a little over priced but that may have been an error on my part.

Depends how you're going to use it.

I have a tri-fold on my truck, my dad has the single piece hard-top tonneau that pops up with gas struts.

His is better in terms of security, and weather protection of stuff in the back. But it's useless if you want to use the truck bed for tall bulky items (IE appliances) or things you need to load from the top, IE A load of dirt/gravel. The downside is that tri-folds can be easily broken into by jamming a screwdriver in at the back and pushing down on the release cable

My dad's truck is a pavement princess that has never had dirt in the back, (the plastic bed liner is literally shiny as new. Mine has had many loads of dirt & mulch in the back, along with big items that I've folded the tonneau up many, many times. I'd say we have the appropriate tonneau's for each of our purposes:

https://i.imgur.com/n0EcQrU.jpeg

We always went trifold on trucks at my work, the regular tonneau as Great68 mentioned creates a massive pinch point closer to the cab the height keeps reducing more and more and pretty much you can't put anything in the truck that's higher than the bed height unless you totally remove the cover.

At least with the tri-fold you can stack it up and sky's the limit... or a bridge in the lower mainland is the limit I guess.

get a raptor or trx

There's roller covers too, they're really convenient but you lose a couple more inches when it's fully open vs a tri fold.

Also depending on your budget
There's diamondback https://youtu.be/517Fc3ZBd2o?si=EKmheDv8eEsDhUwj

Or there's some Chinese ones on FB 'galaxy' brand
It's pretty cheap I picked one up for my tundra for like 300, it's a hard trifold. Downside though, it seems very easy to break into if someone wanted to.
Also not a 100% seal from water and dust but it did keep most of the dust out when we went on a dusty fsr recently.
But 300 for a hard tonneau cover, hard to complain

I personally ran a Bison tri-fold tonneau on my taco. Basically a copy of the popular bakflip. Pretty cheap if I recall($5-600ish?) and its free shipping across canada.

i went with a oem aka bakflip trifold because i got it for cost, no complaints other than its not fully weatherproof.