Lol there is also the fact that people complaining about gas prices A. often dont believe in climate change, and B. are too stupid to understand how gas prices are set (hint:nothing to do with Biden) 

I think that is a solid idea but should somehow take into account actual usage. If you have a large GVW vehicle that only drives 1,000 miles a year, but a lower GVW vehicle that drives 50k miles a year the smaller one should be paying more on a yearly basis.

“Also EPA is a load of crap for the most part, I constantly get over what the epa gets. As long as you don’t floor it every chance you get, you can at least increase the hwy mpg by 5 points. ”

If taxes really are for roads and infrastructure support, then I would think GVW would be a reasonable metric. Also might well be the one manufacturers fight against, because range has become the most important metric in sales and that means battery weight. Should it be the most important? I don’t think so, but it’s a…

Good god. Buy a 12-15mpg combined vehicle and complain about $4/gallon gas.

“Everyone is “used” to paying these prices by now,”

The “new car every 3 years” is really the wrong thing to be saying, when we’re at the thin end of the climate-crisis wedge. Leasing encourages more new cars, and the auto-makers understandably love that, but it’s not a very green option, is it? Buying a car (preferably EV or PHEV) and keeping it as long as you can is…

Is it because Fiat knows it will lose money but it helps Stellantis meet emissions requirements?

That isn’t what we do, at all. We are implementation engineers, and very highly trained and competent ones. We don’t do support at all (with very rare exceptions). When you don’t have the internal resources for your storage, networking, or virtualization refresh or deployment, you hire us to come in and do it for…

I think the era of crapcans is over. I drive a 18 year old Camry with 210k miles on it. It cost half as much as a new Mirage and it drives better. My Camry isn’t really that unique (well, actually given the 3rd pedal it is, but still). It could be a Mazda6, an Accord, or about a dozen other cars that would also be…

I’m pretty sure Fox’s producers get the joke. It’s simply that this is easy content to twist around into the Outrage of the Day to keep their septuagenarian audience from changing the channel to Newsmax.

Yeah, I’ve probably watched dozens of YouTube videos over the past two years predicting the imminent collapse of the used car price bubble. At this stage I’ll believe it when I see it.

Jokes aside, Jay has one of the most watchable car shows and is a true enthusiast and great ambassador for cars, I hope he is OK and heals up quickly.

Yeah, I remember reading an article from FM long ago saying “Don’t V8 swap a Miata,” Their reasoning was that you can have a hell of a lot of fun with something like a FM2 today with about 1/10th the budget, but if you keep saving up to get a V8 in it, you will miss out on the fun of having a much better Miata with…

So the dude blows $10K on the Benz and now he bails?

Has anybody here ever done something stoopid when they shoulda known better, even at work?

In the late 1980s a good friend had an Olds 98 sedan with the 350 Diesel V8. He put the car in the paper for sale, listed the engine as a 350 Diesel, and a guy came out to buy the car. They did the obligatory test drive, and the guy bought the car. A few days later he was calling my friend all sorts of bad names…

PS. if anyone cares, the story that got my dad a life time ban from the PTA back in the early 60s.

Yeah, it’s been I think 40 years since I got that F.

I happily drive a Chevy Sonic hatchback. It’s perfect for my needs. The day I brought it home, I packed away the package shelf and folded the rear seats down, and I don’t think I’ve had to raise them up since.  I’ve hauled a surprising amount of stuff back there with my recent move, and son’t think I’ve missed any…