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J Kaufman	Post subject: From the self-love ... okay, this one works Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 8:26 am
Joined: Mon Nov 14, 2005 3:47 pm Posts: 4655 Location: New York City	Some car reviewer went for a spin in a vehicle that Elon Musk had set aside for John Broder. Terry Box: Freak pickup fire on test drive taught me vehicles don’t burn like they used to Quote: For a few hours last week, my copper-colored Ram pickup cruised the plains of North Texas like some overdressed Duke of Dallas. Tall, broad and powerful, the Ram Longhorn Edition offered every option a truck-loving Texan would want: a Hemi V-8, crew cab, etched leather seats, 20-inch wheels, and eight-speed automatic and four-wheel-drive. Need a hill? The proud, polished Ram could drag one in. And at about 7 p.m. last Wednesday, it all disappeared in a thick column of acrid brown smoke on the side of the Dallas North Tollway — $54,335 worth of truck gone in about three minutes. I was the old hillbilly-looking guy who hopped out of the Ram just south of the Trinity Mills exit and limped away from the truck. [Dallas News]
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