For your next challenge:

You’ve convinced me and the math checks out!

I expected a more in-depth article than this. Perhaps it would’ve been better to evaluate what happened in 2008, then see how bad gas prices would have to get to bring a similar amount of pain for the more efficient vehicles of today. That would be a lot less convoluted.

This is the right answer, thank you.

I think most of us are still making a similar wage to what we were in 2003

You’re going to have to do a better job of fear-mongering hard-hitting investigative journalism to drive the prices of trucks back down to where I want them to be.

Did the math adjusted for consumer price index. $1.56/gallon in 2003 is about $2.13/gallon in 2018, which works out to about a $50/year fuel premium for today’s toughest, smartest, most capable F-150 ever.

I think some asterisks that showed the rate of inflation or a table of “in current USD” would be helpful here. $1.56 in 2003 is $2.11 today. So your $9.25 figure for the 2003 F-150 cost/100 miles is $13.21 vs. the $13.80 you’re paying today.

Us We Americans...

Yeah. Replaced/upgraded my fire extinguishers last weekend too

“That’s a good fucking question”

PM is a function of two things:

If you can’t bend down to get in a car, you need to start fucking walking before you have a coronary.

I was talking to a coworker about this very thing and he brought up a good point - usually when you see this it’s someone trying to cover up fender rot that’s so common on those Silverados.

How else would they cover up the hideous “round peg is a giant square hole” wheel wells that are GM’s design language.

100% agree. I really loathe the ‘microwave dial’ shifters, particularly Jaguar’s with it’s extra useless complexity of going flush.

This stupid thing:

Giant fender flares on an otherwise stock wheel/tire truck. It looks ridiculous and serves no purpose.

SUVs’! SUVs’ everywhere!

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