Um, Enforcement inspections are typically done by the state highway patrol. Annual inspections are done by qualified equipment repair shops.

And really, if you want to complain about carmakers ludicrous color names, Dodge, Rolls and Bentley are your main offenders.

More color options are a good thing.  End of discussion.

this whole thing is one big onion article. 

Hi Rory, welcome.

Please do what you can to limit the politicization of this site.

Leave Politics out and center on vehicles. I would love to see more indepth reviews on vehicles than opinion pieces.

This! There are plenty of other websites for political views, this should be a car website.

We only have room for so many pro-pedestrian writers! 

Hi Rory,

First and most important question: Are trucks evil?

OIC. I just looked at what car he drives and that spells it all out.

“Bloomberg postulates that we’re seeing more trucks sold now because they sell best in states that have less restrictive shelter-in-place orders, like middle America and the South. That’s one theory, but I suspect it’s also about trucks being expensive, and the people that can afford them haven’t been hit by the…

This article, and the underlying Bloomberg article, are specifically referencing pickups and sedans, not the CAFE classifications of passenger vehicles and light trucks.

Truly amazing the lack of understanding. You know who is buying all these trucks? Landscapers, plumbers, carpenters the people who USE trucks. Of the six different landscape companies people in my neighborhood use that I now get to watch out my front window all day four of them are driving brand new trucks in the last…

Not as this article defines it, no. 

Erik:

You’re also forgetting that pickups can handle shitty roads better than any car can.

Move to Europe.