I’d like to see the cost of them coming up short reflected on the Monroney, perhaps as line items in the options list. This car comes up short of the federal fuel economy standards for its footprint to the tune of $800.

Insane levels of markups that the manufacturers have gotten away with in the last 20 years somehow haven’t translated to insane levels of profits and dividends and stock price increases. Maybe they’re not insane.

Often they wait until the first bun is in the oven — but a little baby does not require a land galleon. Yes, you have to bend down and be careful not to bump your head when strapping baby into a Civic, but higher fuel consumption affects all of us, so maybe your convenience should cost you more.

CAFE is based on footprint, so it’s not driving people to small cars anyway. What it is doing is driving increased efficiency across the product range, because every vehicle has its own footprint-based target. That’s good because the additional costs of efficiency engineering are more easily borne on larger and more…

Clearly we need changes in racing regulations regarding aerodynamic aids which effectively end any chance of sedans being competitive :)

CAFE is calculated on vehicle footprint, so manufacturers don’t have to push consumers to small cars — only to vehicles that are efficient for their size.

It’s also worth pointing out that CAFE is no longer a fixed target for all cars, but based on each vehicle’s footprint (wheelbase x track), and still different for trucks vs cars, so it doesn’t matter what your product mix is, if each platform in that mix hits its footprint target.

CAFE is footprint-based, so the old chestnut about having to sell a ton of subcompacts in order to meet a fixed target is no longer true.

Unrelated:

Lincoln is thought to have gotten the phrase from a book of sermons by Theodore Parker, worded: “Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people.” It was from this that I formed my response.

Well, if we’re going to nitpick, then it’s government of the people (the governed), by the employees (the governing), for the wealthy (the beneficiaries, whether humans or corporations). And don’t for a hot second think of suggesting that the politicians aren’t employees of the wealthy.

They already have a pretty good understanding of those groups. What they’re trying to do here is really understand the ideology that turns harmless people into super-troublesome anti-corporate protesters, so that they can more precisely target such people with surveillance and dissuasive measures before they show up…

At this point it’s fair to say it’s government of the corporations, by the corporations, for the corporations.

Keeping it simple is shrugging your shoulders and saying “a couple seconds, probably, but it doesn’t matter because it’s completely stupid.”

CANNOT UNSEE

When something on Jalopnik makes no sense, it’s as likely bad writing/reporting as extra hinkiness. Maybe they don’t pay enough or allow enough time for careful word choice.

Especially facts about 45 drinkers. Their drunken dickswinging is dangerous.

Any poll that doesn’t subdivide its results basedon whether or not the respondent voted for Trump, or at least by Party affiliation, is giving us murky crap.

Doesn’t matter if they don’t have the numbers. Doesn’t matter if it doesn’t go anywhere. What matters is being relentless. How many times did the Republicans vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act under the previous administration? How many days did they refuse to consider a SCOTUS nomination? The Democrats need to be…

Campaign ads ought to get a whole lot nastier than that.