It is quite sad that the accelerated ruination of earth will be due to idiotic politics.

Does this mean they will get rid of oil and gas subsidies?  Somehow, i don't think so.

Mazda 3.

I agree that luxobarges from the 70s were the most cushy. They were huge, weighed a lot, had large bias-ply tires on small steel wheels, and super-soft seats. They also handled like crap.

Back in the 1990s, there were a series of papers published around improving aerodynamics and hydrodynamics using roughened surfaces, such as the sharkskin suits used by olympic swimmers.

Dodge actually did this to the vinyl top of one of their NASCAR race cars back in the late 60s when NASCAR was actually real, productive and fun. The dimpled top actually seemed to help things, but the vinyl started separating from the roof after so many miles of 180mph+ speeds.

GM has been missing the boat on several things lately. Where’s their Maverick competitor? Where’s their Bronco competitor?

Same here. Early trucks were manuals (and Straight Six engines). Then, around ‘76 or so, we got one with an automatic trans. Then another in early 80s. Then a manual trans pickup in 1987, we still use that one on the farm. They all had bench seats.

Americans don’t care where their car is made, as long as it has an “American” brand on it.

What we need is a four-speed or a five-speed manual transmission woth a CVT transfer case between the transmission and the final drive.

There’s not a big downside here for Ford. If the market demands small vehicles, they’d be happy to import plenty of small Fords made overseas, probably with cheaper non-unionized labor. Most U.S. buyers don’t care where a vehicle is made, as long as it has an American ‘name’ on it. They can’t think any deeper than…

Given how my 2002 Accord coupe was perfect at nearly everything except power (the five-speed manual helped make up for that shortcoming), my money is on the current Integra Type S. It seems like a very well-rounded vehicle with some performance to boot.

I'm guessing the Scout will be  Rivian-based Bronco-killer.

That was my first thought.  Scout will be a re-badged R2 or R3.  VW will be getting revenge on Ford.

2025 is the year for new emissions standards (don’t blame the current Administration, as this has been in place for some time so that automakers could prepare).

So what? We put remote horns at each crossing? That will cost over 10x what we think it should cost.

Make it under $12k, can do 50mph easily and i would be interested...

We have a traffic light here guiding traffic across a one-lane restriction. One of the engineers told me that it is sensor-based, but also that the car needs to approch the light at a certain speed. Approach too slowly and it would fail to trigger the sensor (this was so the light wouldn’t be triggered by animals,…

Vehicles had poorer brakes back in those days, also.

As a teenager, i was taught that car maintenance is a necessary evil that goes along with the privelege of driving a car. I remember learning, the hard way, that lugnuts are reverse-threaded on the driver’s side of the late 60s Plymouths i got to drive, learned how to change tires and fix flats with rubber patch kits…