It doesn't make sense for me to buy a separate set of snow tires for the winters here. It might be snowing tonight, but we only get 1-3 accumulating snows per year, and those have usually melted away well before a week has passed. It was nearly 70 degrees a couple of weeks ago.

In what utopia? People didn't text, talk on the phone, or play with fancy GPS/infotainment systems when those types cars were new because those distractions didn't exist. I see people in all types of vehicles texting and being generally distracted. Growing up in a family that owns a towing busing I can attest that…

Are we driving a 7 speed today or is 2 4th gears a new thing?

You can teach to the test or just give the students the test answers while they are taking the test. In either case, you get stupid kids, but one is viewed as much more unethical than the other. You can also teach the kids properly which might give them better results in the real world, but that might not be reflected…

Forza motorspots shop has one nearing 1000 hp.

There is still a big difference. I can choose not to drive, and in a lot of areas of the country not take a huge quality of living hit. I don't really have a choice about purchasing health insurance if I want to simply exist.

But CAFE won’t accept the penalty.

Ice and beer.

It depends on which car I am using. When I am in my Camaro with MyLink I use it all the time. It recognizes my voice most of the time, and it works from any screen that my system might be on. I can say Tune to <radio station>, Navigate to <address>, Listen to <song store on iPod>, Call <name in contacts list on…

You have to purchase auto insurance if you want to exercise your privilege (not right) to own a car for the purpose of using it on public owned roadways. This is more to protect others from damage that you may cause. You have to purchase health insurance simply because you are alive. Apples and Oranges.

Harvesting from on top of buildings would not be economical for the production of any crop suitable for the production of Ethanol. However, solar panels would be good in those locations. Ethanol is a type of “solar power” since the energy used to create the sugars comes from sunlight, however it is a far less…

I am VERY curious to see how this number was calculated. It would be outrageous for me to even spend $8,000 a year on gas. For example, lets assume I average 15 miles per gallon (far below average) and drive 15k miles per year (slightly above average). Gas would have to be $8.00/gallon for me to even have a fuel bill…

You are missing the point of Hydrogen. The big push that I see behind Hydrogen is refueling. Where it takes ~30 minutes to recharge a Tesla enough to go another 200 highway miles, this is done in 4 minutes and is good for 375 miles. Do you know what else lets me "recharge" in 4 minutes and get a 375 mile range?…

That is essentially the engine that is in the ATS-V.

From Kentucky as well. I still can’t trust a GPS to navigate in many parts of the state. I grew up in the western part of the state, and there are many established roads that while they are on the map have the address locations completely wrong and in some cases reversed. In Metro Louisville I have had several cases…

We have that already, and it’s based on the classification of the car. Have you heard of the gas guzzler tax? It’s for cars that get below the minimum fuel economy for their class.

Being in Kentucky, I have been around a few auto plants (Ford and GM). I can't say for the Ford plant lots, but both UAW union halls for the Ford plants have explicit signs at the driveway stating that "Foreign cars must park in back." In other words, this culture you speak of is most likely pushed by the Union as…

For most Chevys, RS has only been an appearance package since the 1960s.

Her roommate tried in college, and I tried in my current car. At least in my current car, she was too scared to drive it. Manual transmission or not.

CTS V-Sport, ATS turbo, Camaro 2L Turbo, Camaro V6, ATS-V, Cobolt SS (especially the turbo version which had a factory tune that you could purchase and keep it under warranty). If we want to go older we have the Grand National, Typhoon, and Syclone.