Weak troll is weak. 

Can we just get our ID chips installed now and get it over with.  Everyone is so afraid of everything, it’s only inevitable as a way to “keep us safe”.  At least with chips, maybe security at the airport would be much easier. 

Well, I was going to ask to bum a fag from you, but you’ll probably just say no. 

I made the same connection.  Gave your other comment a star. 

Hybrid market share hasn’t made much of a change, despite, as you say, prices having fallen and they are more affordable. Hybrid systems are expensive. Paying a $10,000 premium just for the hybrid system is about what you can expect over a standard gasoline car.

That’s a risk, for sure. My adviser has a strong suspicion that 2019 will be a negative year. It looks to me like the market has a been on a ~10 year boom and bust cycle since 1900. The magnitudes of which vary greatly of course... So, I’m willing to take the bet. I’m still putting what I need into my 401k, of…

I’ve stopped purchasing stocks at the moment, letting the liquid assets accumulate instead.  I’m just chomping at the bit for a downturn.  Discount stocks ahoy!  

So... the motor drives the accessory belt?  I wonder how long that lasts... 

I was surprised I was the first (well, tied for first) to post a reference at 13 minutes after the story was posted. 13 minutes is an eternity in these matters.

Hmm we seem to have posted at the exact same moment in time. Perhaps you would join me to consume mass quantities? 

One with a sunroof.

That’s the entire point, I have to be on my toes to watch for these shenanigans in the first place, so I know WHEN to walk. How can go to a dealer and not have the expectation of I might get screwed (a “chip” as you call it) the minute I walk in?

It’s an adversarial situation from the start. They want to squeeze as much money out of you, and you want to pay as little as possible. Most car buyers, myself included, are not nearly as skilled as salesmanship, and do not have decades of experience to draw on to eek every little penny out of the deal. I love…

You might be happy, but when it costs 10's of billions to develop a car from the ground up, those billions in market share don’t look that great.

The charts didn’t make it.

Educated guess. :P

Someone else made a decent point that fuel economy does come in to play after deciding what TYPE of car to buy.  So, someone has already decided to buy a small SUV like the Escape.  They might compare the FE of whatever GM is offering in that space. That seems to be a plausible place of where the average buyer ranks…

Fair point. I guess it means fuel efficiency is on the list, but a pretty low priority.

This study is not any indication. People vote with their wallets not a response to some guy asking questions. OF COURSE people will say they want more economy when it doesn’t cost them anything.  But with less than 3% market share, hybrid sales say it all.