Dang it, I shoulda googled it before going off the top of my head.

Yeah, I get that it could be an issue, but I highly highly doubt heavy passenger vehicle EVs are gonna be the straw that broke the camels back. It’s gonna be from big rigs. A really really heavy EV is like 8k lbs. A standard big rig tries to get as close to their standard max of 80k lbs as possible. Wear on roads is…

Assuming it and the suburban go for under $100k, I’d much rather have this over the new $65k yuppie-mobile Sprinters that get a $30k instagram van life make over.

Totally a big part of it. 

To be honest, even $5k worth of wheels, tires, and lift kit would be generous, at least at dealers when I was living in Houston. Every dealer in Houston seemed to offer the same 3 options of ugly ass XD wheels that retail for like $275/wheel, on some cheap ass 35"+ tire like Atturo Trail Blades (some rock hard Nittos…

Yeah, my example was poor. But why typically happens isn’t someone swapping from a truck to a more fuel efficient truck; but instead sticking around in the same fuel economy bracket. So instead of 23mpg sedans, people drive 23mpg SUVs. You don’t get a net environmental benefit, people just consume more in the sense…

It can also mean going up from a full size sedan to a full size truck though. “Both get 23mpg on the highway” and like you said, you’ll drive the same as you always have. So where is the environmental benefit here?

Increase the cost of the good you want to decrease the use of. But, that tends to be regressive, so you can even implement a cap & trade policy with a refund. The refund is equally split between everyone, so an average user gets a refund at the end of the year in equal value to the increase in out of pocket cost they…

Also, usually when efficiency goes up, so does usage. If someone typically goes from driving a 15mpg vehicle to a 30mpg vehicle, you can almost guarantee they will drive a lot more. Sure, it’s probably not a 1:1 ratio, but there are way more effective ways to reduce climate effects than solely targeting effecencies.

This looks just like a 3rd gen gussied up which, as you already know, is already essentially a 2nd gen gussied up. I swear that is the same cab that nonTacoma people love to complain about since 2004, just ever so slightly modified at the C pillar. And while I still do like my 3rd gen a lot (besides the shit…

I just want to see one of these parked next to a car I’ve seen in person. These are proportioned like a hatch, but I’ve been told are sized like a CUV or even SUV. So what is it?

I remember my dad complaining as a kid that the blades were kind of a pain to find. Not something the local AdvanceAuto had in stock all the time. But yeah, it was awesome.

It’s a shame the car’s nostrils are so reviled, because from any other angle it looks pretty damn good.

Not only that, but you should probably normalize based on Tesla’s demographic. I’m assuming Tesla owners are typically more middle aged, wealthier, and better educated than average; how does that correlate compared to other middle aged, wealthier, and well educated drivers? Let alone, Tesla’s are substantially newer…

What are the chances this ends up like the PT Cruiser? Sold almost exclusively to old people trying to relive their youth and gaining a less than favorable reputation because of it? I mean, it’s got a similar retro vibe and even the name has the same combo of dumb two letters followed by an actual name.

I mean, you did purposely phrase it like Texas was the only state that didn’t have such a tax.

Na. The vast majority of states don’t have a annual property/excise tax on vehicles that is based on the MSRP or value of the vehicle because they are almost always regressive. I.e. the single mom scrapping by who finally can swing a 5 year old Corolla ends up paying more in taxes than the guy with a half dozen…

I’d normally agree with you, but to be 100% fair, any AWD minivan is about 10% more expensive than a comparable CX9. That’s a lot for a lot of people I’d wager. Especially if you don’t have serious plans to regularly use the 3rd row and would value a sportier ride & handling over the usability of a minivan.

Noxudol, which Toyota uses

You really think he was paying to insure a junkyards worth of nonrunning cars? The $400 only goes to cars that had active policies on the 31st of October. So David will probably get like $800 or $1200 whatever for the 2 or 3 running vehicles he has, not $4800 for the 12 heaps he owns or whatever the actual number is.