I mean, it is a bit shocking to me in that a Highlander and Grand Highlander get almost the same MPGs as the much smaller Rav and UX.

Yea, and we didn’t really have readily available internet to find out what else there was. We didn’t really care, but were just surprised because I don’t think we looked at the prices and then when they rang us up, we were like, “wow, that was a bit more than we expected!”

I get it, wasn’t trying to insinuate that everywhere in LA is expensive. But coming from Philly and the on-campus food trucks charging like $3 for egg and cheese on a long roll that my GF, now wife, would split, it was surprising. I also vividly remember going to a place in NYC and getting two turkey burgers that cost…

I agree that the standards are and were working and I am all for them. I guess what I am trying to say is that upgrading for efficiency savings is usually nullified by the cost of a new vehicle until it is paid off. Since in either of my examples, we would go from no car payment to a $500+ payment while seeing minimal…

When I lived in Philly from ‘05 to ‘13 I exclusively rode my bike or took Septa (I lived in UCity and Fairmount/Art Museum). Maybe I was lucky, but I had bus and subway routes that took me exactly where I wanted to go without any transfers, so it was great. Sometimes service was slow and I would end up just walking,…

This would have been 2010 or so. We were staying in West Hollywood (Edit, it was the Plaihotel on Melrose) and went to the farmers market place at 3rd and Fairfax to one of the food places in there. I didn’t know where to go and or what was around, I was just surprised. It was years ago, so I don’t really care, just…

Yea the previa had some really cool, weird options. But the base level was RWD. You could also as you mentioned, get AWD and there was also a Supercharged version as well as manual transmission. Not sure what options you could get with what, but a wild set for a minivan, IMO.

I still remember the first time I went to LA as a relatively poor, just out of college kid. We rented a double twin room with 4 of us and when we asked the front desk about busses they just laughed at us. We were coming from Philly which doesn’t have the best pub trans, but was lightyears ahead of LA. Then the next…

Average age of cars on the road is somewhere around 12 years and we can guess value is significantly lower than new. So even if you go from a low MPG car (for example, I have an ‘07 Highlander Hybrid, which if we trust it’s computer, gets 22 MPG). If I was to trade in for a new Camry at $30k ($28.7+delivery, taxes…

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Previa is RWD, so I am sure you can at least try.

To be fair, MPG standards are only for new cars. Last time I checked, average people can’t really afford new cars all that easily. Even if you can, the break even on gaining a few MPG’s is a REALLY long lead time, depending on the car you are replacing and what you are replacing it with. But overall, I do agree with…

To be fair, it does look like the ‘24 Limited started around $67k and was just under $70k with delivery. Unfortunately the only real inventory that Toyota has right now are some Land Cruisers and trucks 9BZ4x too, but uhh, yea). All the other cars and SUV’s are still extremely limited availability (region and State dep…

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Too bad the new LC doesn’t have a manual. But since it is Hybrid only, none to be made anyway.

A lot of EV makers aren’t even turn a gross profit on them, AKA materials and labor cost more than selling price, nothing to do with R&D and selling costs. There is no way Tesla could sell a $25k M3 and make a profit, you think they have $15k in margin? That is38%, absolutely zero chance.

Less than 9k cars in a year across 110 dealers...that works out to less than 7 cars a month per dealer. I feel bad for those sales people. But I guess it is probably just one GM/Sales person and one F&I/Sales person per store, plus maybe some random part time sales person.

Our older car is a ‘07 Highlander Hybrid with 295k miles on it. I drive a decent amount for work and not always in highly populated areas, usually with quick turnarounds, 1k miles in a week isn’t abnormal. So an EV is kind of out for me right now.

I thought the rubber in the tires insulated them? 

Completely agree. Not that same, but when we were looking to buy a house about 10 years ago, we noticed that all the recent “flips” had the same carpet. It is similar in the fact that if you mass produce something, it gets cheaper to produce but gets really boring.