Depends on the year. They tend to rotate crops here in Ohio.

In Ohio, you only pay tax on a vehicle purchase, not yearly. When the title transfers to a new owner, the sale prices is listed (and can be low balled when a private party sells to another private party), and that is what is taxed at the time of the title transfer.

So according to this particular officer, just pull over and leave the officer exposed in highway traffic.

It was only resource intensive for them back then because they insisted on a completely different CPU architecture every generation until the 4 and 5.

Not to mention how much extracting, refining, and delivering fuel from oil costs over and over for an ICE to use.

What I’d like to know about this report is are they counting all of the emissions generated extracting oil, transporting it to a refinery, processing it, and then transporting the finished product to the gas station, which has to use power to pump into an ICE?

Their naming is super confusing. The CX-3 is built off the Mazda 2 platform. The CX-5 was built off the old Mazda 3 platform. The CX-30 is built off the new Mazda 3 platform, and is a bit smaller than the CX-5, but larger than the CX-3. See? Super confusing.

Thankfully my Mazda dealership experience hasn’t been bad. Hopefully that doesn’t change. I bought my 3 from Germain in Columbus, OH, and they just finished up a major remodel of the entire facility.

The Miata isn’t going away until they eliminate all ICE from their line up. Once that happens, I could see them possibly trying an electric version of the Miata. It would maintain the niche the Miata currently resides in, be a fair amount heavier, but also a lot faster.

Bring back the MX-6 name (Mazda Experimental -MX).

This is probably really wishful thinking, but I have to suspect/wonder if they will bring out a new car to replace the Mazda 6 and call it the MX-6, since it would be RWD based (with AWD as an option). I know they used the MX-6 moniker on the old 2 door version of the 626, but I could see them resurrecting it for a…

I’d love to see FIA change the specs on the cars so they can’t have the weird floor pans that stick out beyond the body of the cars. You want to taper the back of the car? Well, you can, but no more extra floor there. The cars will look cleaner overall, and hopefully the racing would be better.

Totally off-topic to the article (which I did read, and agree with), but the Silverado in the lead image looks so much better than the production model on the street.

I always wonder if people stop to consider the ecological costs that comes from having to continually drill, pump, ship, refine, then deliver again oil and gasoline just to keep ICE vehicles running. Surely that alone is more per vehicle than the energy required and emissions generated manufacturing a BEV.

After owning a 98 and 2006, I totally understand. The flip side is David can probably walk just about anyone through repairing them over the phone.

I hope that’s the case. The old 3.5 has been a solid work horse, but nearly everyone else ditched belts years ago.

My wife’s 2020 Kona (2.0) is in the recall, and the engine is listed as being manufactured in China, while the car was manufactured in Korea.

Are they still using timing belts on the new V6?

I know it’s a bit pedantic, but the current gen Mazda 3 only offers the manual on the top trim, FWD model, so you have to pay a premium to get one with the manual. Toyota, on the other hand, is still offering a manual at a reasonable price.

They definitely are much better than Nissan’s, for sure. But I still don’t like them, and it’s going to take a few years to see if they hold up as well as traditional autos once they get past the 100/120k mile range, where you see a lot of Nissan CVTs crapping out.