I remember reading many years ago about ‘small cars that would never be in the U.S.’.  Two of those were the Fit and the Yaris, both of which are available now.  

It seems in NC (at the time, 2003), a 17-year-old could be prosecuted as an adult, but under 18, they were still the Parents’ responsibility.  Saw a few families get in trouble that way.

I’ve seen Kei cars with airbags.  Get rid of everybodies 0-60 mph obsession, and not make engines capable of 120 mph.

Japan had really neat 40 mpg vehicles when I was there in the 70s.  The SEVENTIES!  Yet 50 years later, the U.S. says; “We can’t do it.”.  

Think about it, though. It must actually cause physical pain here for the author to actually type that the Trump administration might be more right than any single thing that happened under Obama.

2nd... You want to fix the emissions? Then make it vehicle-dependant instead of fleet-dependant. Make everything 37 mpg minimum. There’d be a lot less F350s carrying nothing heavier than a pack of paper towels from Costco.  Less Suburbans at the mall.

Maybe it does come back to the muslim thing.  Don’t you have to swear on the bible to serve in Congress?

My brother-in-law retired as a north Jersey cop.  His stories would make you a) laugh, b) puke, and c) make you swear never to go north of Delaware.

The Queen can’t even have people beheaded anymore.

Truth.  I was in Atlanta in the dot.com crash.  We were amazed that a couple guys with some servers in a garage could suddenly be worth $20 million.  There were a thousand ‘companies’ in little storefront Industrial parks all over the area.  Who was controlling all those IPO?

Modern shareholders are only as happy as the last check.  Future be damned, it seems.

I got a call Friday night, at home walking the dog, not to come in Monday.

Sounds like Atlanta.  I was laid off from a dot.com and found out, along with others, when our parking pass and security badges quit working.

How many did you buy, though?

I drove a fairly new Vega once.  Put a quart of oil in every 100 miles.  Like clockwork.  Nobody could figure out where it was going.

Truth.  The breakdown was that there are just as many parts in a small car today as a big car.  All the safety, airbag, ECM, sensors... The manufacturing cost really isn’t much lower for a Cruze than a Malibu.  With everything, including employees, taken into account, they just can’t make that much from them.

I just recently scored a bottle of the ‘gateway drug’ to Mayo.  Have you had Mayochup yet?

Most likely because gasoline is supposed to burn.

It may be a dice roll, or it may be a good buy.  We got a Buick at CarMax for about the same the Buick Dealer priced them.  The CarMax warranty was better.  Also, for some strange reason, I got $500 more for my trade-in than I thought I would get.

Before 10, it was more of an issue. Not so much now.