What would be the impact of just suspending teens being able to get their license? They managed for 16 years and it’s not like they have to drive to go to school or work at the local cinema/restaurant/mall/whatever teens do for cash these days as it’s closed!
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Noooope. No.
Re: Neutral - I’m doing good. I’m an homebody anyway and the best news is that I have hit the magic ratios for frozen margaritas at home. I also have a BMW 440i coupe (a friend left it here and got stuck in SF so I get to use it, y’know to keep the battery charged ;) - Driving on the empty LA roads each evening....seri…
Sorry, I kinda like it. It’s CHONKY. Kinda like that Kardashian lady and her pussy. Large and in charge.
So in other words, even during a global pandemic and impending economic doom....nearly 50% of used Teslas/Japanese SUV’s sell within 30 days. That’s still impressive.
Ford needs to concentrate on where the money in the market is. That’s not small cars. Leave that to Hyundai/Kia. They’re better at it anyway. They have a real resource on their hands with decent SUV underpinnings and Lincoln finally knows how to throw an interior together. Lean on them.
They put batteries in a Camry? That’s the progress in 23 years? I’m not knocking on Toyota. I own a Highlander for a reason. They know what they’re doing. They don’t implement new things unless they are ABSOLUTELY certain it’s reliable, will work and will sell. Hence the lack of turbos across the line up. I have a…
I find it kind of bizarre that Toyota took a big step into the future with the Prius and then...just stopped there? I know they’ve got the Prius Prime but it mostly sucks. 23 years later and we’re finally getting a RAV4 Prime which actually seems very intriguing but jeez they play the long game.
26 million people have registered for unemployment. Let’s be conservative and top that up to 30 million. The ‘real’ number is probably much higher. There are millions more working on reduced hours, reduced incomes etc. It’s going to take a LONG time for the car industry to get back to where it was only 6 weeks ago,…
I like that it’s weird and wonderful. I hate that it’s in Canada and the headaches that would mean to get it here.
The Clio is HUGE now though too! so no wonder it’s selling like the Golf used to. It’s almost the same size as the previous gen Golf anyway. I used to own a 1997 Clio which was properly small. Well, until I owned a 2006 Toyota Aygo 3 door which was essentially IQ sized haha!
I like the style but I don’t understand how this fits below the C-HR? The C-HR is TEENY TINY!
Well I for one (as a non-moneyed millennial wannabe hipster scum) like it.
We’re a 2 adult household in Los Angeles. We have managed perfectly fine with 1 car for the last 2 years. I drive to work, my husband takes the metro & used metrobike for the last mile from the station. When COVID started to become a real risk factor, we considered picking up a cheap old Prius as a 2nd car - not just…
My initial thought was the newest Forester XT that you can afford but that’s kinda dull and defo lacks the ‘pizazz’ factor. So my choice is a an XC40 T5 AWD. 248 hp and 258 lb-ft is decent enough, it’s compact, looks awesome and has AWD for the occasional DC snowy winter. Yeah, yeah I know it’s above budget but you…
Oh I definitely feel the extra - 2 adults in our household - we’re probably saving easily $500-750 a month from lack of commuting/socialising - BUT our fairly decent household income has been cut in half as one adult has lost their job already. We’re lucky that we have savings, no debt, no kids one decent income still …
TBH I’m astonished anyone is buying anything right now. I get the general churn, lease returns, replacement after being totalled etc but just who are the people spending $50k plus on a new car/suv/truck!? WHO!?
Travel will return. People like to go places. Leisure travel though. I think business travel will take a lot longer to return, if ever. Why bother paying (in terms of both cost and environmentally) for people to go to meetings that can easily be done via Zoom now we all know how easy and effective it is. A lot of…
Oh it’s been a few years now. Both in the UK where I lived at the time - I had a 2001 1.8T and a 2009 1.8TFSI. The 2001 had electrical issues - that thing was truly a lemon. The 2009 had insane levels of oil consumption (a litre per 500 miles normal apparently!) - the AC unit replaced twice and still wasn’t…
I was doing my usual afternoon perusing of AutoTrader yesterday. (I wondered how low CT6's with Super Cruise had gotten!) and I saw some dealers now offering home test drives - where they drop the car off at your house for a test drive before you buy. I wasn’t aware of this - it removes one of the final hurdles of the…