This is the only part of the vehicle that I also feel is off, it screams Kia.
This is the only part of the vehicle that I also feel is off, it screams Kia.
Everything is political. Expect to see politics in unexpected places, be ready to ignore it if you’re not in the mood for it.
That’s really more of a flaw in using MPG as a measure of fuel consumption rather than anything else. The metric L/100km is much more useful.
“A difference of 2-4 mpg isn’t that big of a deal for most folks.”
gas rises to $3.00 a gallon.
The thing about using MPG is, the more efficient a vehicle is, the less significant a handful of MPG becomes.
Pretty much this. You can never afford to put all your eggs in one basket, because it takes time to change course once market conditions change.
It’s even a fake Toyota.
“Also our product is distinctly Cadillac and people will buy into that brand and that substance,” added the spokesperson.
I really like 3/4 of the car. But that front end is just... wrong. I think its the headlights, and the the way they’re cut into the bumper? I don’t know. It kind of tries to do what Mazda did really well with the new Miata, but it just doesn’t work. Like you, I really like a lot of the car - my favorite detail is the…
Doors back = good doors forward = dumpster fire
C4C had almost no effect on used car prices. It only involved ~690,000 cars out of a market that is ~40,000,000 used car sales per year. That’s right, less than 2% of used cars (that year) were involved.
Used car prices jumped due to the supply of cars as car sales crashed from 20+ million a year in 2006 to 10 million in 2009.
Not quite exactly. The engine and supercharger rotate at a fixed ratio to each other. Here is a very simple example assuming full efficiencies and no temperature change factors. Let’s say that the supercharger rotates 5x faster than the engine. That means that for each engine rotation that calls for 6.2L of air the…
Nope. Engine displacement and supercharge displacement are calculated by how much air is moved per rotation. For an engine it is calculated by Pi/4*Bore^2*Stroke*# Cylinders. This is basically the difference in volume between top dead center and bottom dead center of the cylinder. Supercharger displacement is…
Meh. The midwest offers a pretty decent balance of quality of life to affordability. I’ve lived a lot of different places and the reality is day-to-day life is pretty similar wherever you are, so why spend a fortune?
The manufacturer can charge more when the buyer is getting a rebate from a third party. It’s like college tuition - the more Uncle Sam “helps”, the more expensive it becomes.