Sammies are fun driving around town, but absolutely suck on the highway. Drafting a 18 wheeler it would do 65....but you could not pass one going above 55 mph. The high pressure air at the front of the 18 wheeler might as well be a brick wall.

A loop hole in Obama’s fuel rules make it easier to meet regulations by building bigger rather than being more efficient.

A 10 year old Toyota sub-compact + a couple of hot rods is a pretty good combo.  Cool cars when you want them.  Efficient, dependable transportation when you just need to get from A to B.

Yep. (from around 1995-2000)

Back when I lived in Memphis, TN, I used to go mudding several times a week (Suzuki samurai on 32 x1 1.50 BFG mud tires, lockers, and 4:1 low range). Mud is hell on a vehicle. It gets in everything and acts like valve lapping compound. On average, rear brake shoes lasted one month from sandy dirt getting inside the…

More than likely, it was the wife that uses the gas pedal like an on/off switch that made him take it back. ....after cleaning the shit stains off of the seat 3 times in one week.

In the past, it has been just the opposite. The only hybrid that sold had to obviously be a hybrid at 100 feet. It was conspicuous consumption for tree huggers.

It is not not a cable shifter. It is multiple rod linkages that snake around the motor.  A worn out 914 (maybe all of them) has the vaguest feeling shifter that I have personally experienced. Somehow it seems to select the right gear most of the time.

That is like dating a dude because the pretty women won’t talk to you.

Nobody wants to actually pay money for a “fiat”.

It is for the MF’Rs that get stock options.  They got rich.

That is not just assembly issues. That is what happens when you skip the tried and true “real car company” practices of pre-production design validation testing, pre-production builds, design changes being implemented before going into production. Tesla tried to skip steps and just go straight into mass production.

Why give somebody money if all they are going to do is set it on fire?

We bought a 2017 LX sedan with a manual for under $17,000 and love it. It routinely gets over 40 mpg in mixed driving. If you beat on it, it moves pretty good for a base model car. Oh yeah, I prefer a sedan over a hatch.

Older 4Runners are cool.

Those people that took the AAA survey don’t appear to be in the market for cars.

....or let the other OEMs go broke trying to develope autonomous EVs....and be the last man standing.

....or get new regulators.

How much money have the other car companies/governments spent on EV development?

I don’t think electrics are “poised to take the industry by storm”.