Three kids and two adults in an 83 Accord sedan on cross country trips over summers. Modern babies must be monstrously huge, I guess.

Twin turbos on a petrol powered I4 is a non-starter. No one does it, because it doesn’t net enough efficiency gain to make sense, even at crazy boost levels.

Unibody construction, FWD (or FWD based part time AWD), with the same ride height as a car or small/midsize crossover. Beef up the chassis so it can hold 1500lbs in the bed and tow 3k lbs. Top it off with a 4-cyl hybrid drivetrain: torque from the electric motor, small gas engine for cruising around. I’ll bet you…

How much of our trade surplus can be attributed to the simple fact that Americans buy a ton more shit than everyone else in the world?

You can reduce all emissions by increasing mileage standards, but the opposite is absolutely not the case. This is part of the problem with EU emissions regulations: they prioritized CO2 over everything else. That increased sulfur and particulate emissions. Now they’ve got a massive smog problem.

Wranglers are terrible on-road. I don’t understand how people commute in them.

You can still special order a regular cab, full size bed F150 with a V8, but dealers don’t want to have them around because they’ll sit on the lot for months. The problem is that most truck buyers aren’t getting them to do truck things. They’re cars which happen to have a bed and a lifted suspension. They want a nice…

Don’t forget that Ram still has a manual available on the diesel models, always has.

Shouldn’t matter if it’s at sea or in dock.: as far as I know, the (legal) definition of an ICBM doesn’t preclude it from also being an SLBM. I think it just has to have a range of at least 5500km.

It could have twin turbos, twincharging, a twin scroll turbo, or a VGT. Any of those could be used to reduce boost threshold. Just because they don’t mention it in a preliminary report doesn’t mean they won’t be there.

Last I saw, they hadn’t announced a power number. Ford Performance says it’ll do an 8 second quarter mile though, so it’s gotta be in that ballpark.

That’s ridiculous. I must have one.

I think you picked the wrong VAG 8-cyl.

There’s already a track-only version with 1000 hp: the Challenger Drag Pak.

You’re buying a used vehicle? Hard times for Fancy Kristen.

no one wants to drive around in a Golf R that sounds like a WRC car

Whiskey/bourbon (TN/KY/IN) and motorcycles (WI) make sense. The idea is to target products from places which are key to 45's support. Jeans are the confusing one to me: Levi’s is headquartered in San Francisco and doesn’t make anything in the US anymore. Is there another brand which makes things in a red/swing state…

I live in an area which is, by rainfall, a temperate rainforest. Can confirm that people still don’t know how to drive in the rain.