I actually just bought a Honda Odyssey last week and ordered a VCMuzzler II while sitting at a stop light on the way home.

I think it’s funny. Lighten up, Francis.

You’re not a real gearhead unless you like the smell of dangerous fumes. ;)

Just make it a sales tax. I’m sick of regressive tax proposals that rich people don’t even care about. If your car is under $30K and gets 30mpg average, you pay no extra, anything above that, you get fucked hard. We need some forced modesty in this country.

Because it’s regressive.  It impacts the poor at a much larger scale than the rich.  Like we need to tax the poor more.  The answer lies in the bank accounts of wealthy folks but those are the same people that make laws, so we’re fucking stuck.  We need term limits for politics and maybe even income limits. …

-Someone who lives in Minneapolis and was around for the 35W bridge collapse.

Well, for starters, this is exactly what is being taxed presently — run a/c in your car, you are taxed for that in the form of increased fuel use.

But what’s exciting about them? The way they look? I realize I’m in the extreme minority here, but looks are way down on the list for me. It plays a factor, but I’m buying cars on how they function as a car and looks have little to do with that. HK vehicles in reality: they look nice, drive fair, and have a 100K…

I don’t know what compels people to buy trucks these days except for some emotional need.

are you kidding?

I’d think, for a pickup you’d want to do pickup things with, all that additional, oddly shaped, expensive to replace glass would be a major downside.

Guess what, handling isn’t just limited to when you’re not touching the accelerator. This is an opinion piece written by someone who likes to mess around with semantics (likely to get more comments and shares from people arguing about it).

Oh yeah you’re right. For some reason I spaced on that. Sort of irrelevant since my point was that these people aren’t going to be buying snow tires when they make that one trip in their 2WD car, but yeah you got me.

It is illegal to drive that massively overcrowded stretch of highway without AWD/4WD AND (not or) snow-capable tires.

It is illegal to drive that massively overcrowded stretch of highway without AWD/4WD AND (not or) snow-capable tires.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/a3091/the-myth-of-the-all-powerful-all-wheel-drive-15202862/

They’re nice. To a point.

The most fascinating thing about them is that they’re objectively bad at what they do, but the masses lap it up.

Trucks get a ton of hate.

Who are you to decide what other people need?