This, right here, is why the way we test emissions is dumb.

I had two for a combined 13 years and believe it falls within Torch’s requirements for both side window and roof covering a least 50% of the cargo area load floor.

Assuming the numbers I found were correct, Mazda’s managed to justify it for the MX-5 on a bespoke platform with sub-10K per annum sales. The BR-Z86 numbers are worse than the GTI/R. This “issue” of VAG’s could probably be fixed in the software. It’s all a money issue: namely the investors want more and killing the…

It’s a minivan. It has sliding doors. It’s van-shaped. Save it for the “what’s the best van of all time” QOTD.

Holy shit, what?

They have pretty close to a 50% manual take rate on the GTI... but that’s in a car that sells 6k units right now, in a company that has an overall manual take rate around 4%.

Toyota Matrix - XR trim with a manual if you’re into manuals.

Go big or go home. Between the full cargo area behind the front-facing third row and the power clamshell tailgate, the early to mid 70s Chevrolet Impala is the King of Wagons.

Sellers are just trolling us, right? I wouldn’t pay that for a ‘99 Camry with 29K miles.

CPO is the happy medium here. Save some money, and they often come with an extended factory warranty to cover the miles already on the car. I bought a fully loaded CPO Mazda 6 with 11k miles on it for the price of a base model, and it had equivalent warranty coverage to a new one. 

This. The argument always seems to get boiled down to “range anxiety” and I’m not sure that’s the right term. I would say mental load is what drive a lot of people away from EVs right now—the idea that having an EV adds another layer of mental preparation devoted to finding chargers when it comes to driving. Right now…

Oil exports is the same worry it always has been. Oil pumped domestically is still traded in a global market, and OPEC still swings oil prices.

I cannot imagine paying a markup on a Nissan Kicks. That’s a staggering revelation. 

The way it stops, and is damaging to the environment is that the person who sold the EV prior to reaching that magic number is that they’re going to be buying another car, starting again from zero.

Whether they pollute less or not on the whole, EV’s decrease our dependency on foreign oil, which is absolutely a good thing.

Or what’s on dealer lots. Good luck finding a base model...

New vs old all depends on life situation.

Cheapest, no, but best value, maybe. With the prices of used cars still historically high, a new car with zero miles can be a better value than a 3 year old car with 50,000.

An average transaction price higher than starting MSRP isn’t necessarily indicative of dealer markups.

If you’re shopping for the cheapest care you can afford then you probably  should not be shopping new. I mean, if an insane deal presents itself, go for it. But generally...