Any car sold for MSRP in 2021 is seeing big declines right now. Why? Because prices were inflated then, and EVs even more so as supplies were constrained across the board.

Yeah, but an engine or transmission rebuild on an older ICE vehicle is a 50/50 scrap proposition as well. I grenaded the transmission on my mustang at 140k miles. We ended up dropping in a low mileage tranny from a junkyard. An actual rebuilt one was approaching the value of the vehicle.

Whenever someone describes price cuts as ‘a necessary evil’, I suspect that person is actually a lizard, incapable of relating to humans and/or feeling emotion.  

Or maybe it’s just Americans are suckers for the word ‘Sale’.  Remember JC Penney announced they were getting out of the sale game and lowering regular prices.  They had to go back because sales dropped.

Cutting prices also means cutting into profits

It’s funny, because GM was basically the first that started to hybrid-ize “normal” vehicles. Remember the hybrid Silverado, Tahoe and Malibu? Those things came out in like 2004, 20 fuckin’ years ago.

Because the EV market got saturated quickly and demand was met multiple times over. But somehow, people didn’t see that coming because Tesla was the only game in town and their sales/production ramp was pretty crazy. Almost like all the business folks at all the other OEM’s forgot business 101 from a supply/demand…

Pricing of EVs is finally elastic...thank god.

Toyota’s bet on hybrids has been so succesful that you have to wait 18 months and pay dealer markup to get a Sienna hybrid. Why the Big 3 have abandoned hybrids (except Stellantis, which keeps building hybrids that break all the time) is absolutely beyond me.

1) Viper: 175 inches long vs. New F-150: 232 inches long

I feel like a Viper might be the diametric opposite of the criteria listed. We have a rusty driver who wants something:

A Viper with a salvage title. What could go wrong?

Wants: not too challenging

I honestly cant speak about turbo cars but I remember years ago someone used a 1st Gen Taurus SHO on a dyno and tested Premium (forget if it was 91 or 93) and 85, and the car dyno’d the exact same numbers with no knock detected. it always made me wonder if those cars were able to do knock detection back in the late…

Where are the three grades 87, 88.5, and 90? Is this shopped? Where I live (Long Island) it’s generally 87, 91, and 93 - and my GLI specifies 91 preferred (will run on 87 but with reduced power/efficiency).

Yeah it’s not like wine at all.

Remember when there was only a ten cent difference between each tier of gas? Now it’s 40-50 cents per gallon. 

It seems like mid-grade fuel is still sold at pumps because ignorant consumers still buy it ... they’re really just padding the wallets of the oil companies and gas stations

Big oil needs big profits, the expense for producing and handling the different octanes is likely more than offset by the sometimes significant premiums paid for the higher octanes.

In truth, what’ s the point of more than one octane? A number of years ago there was talk about one octane - 96. From a logistics perspective, one octane make a lot of sense - refining, pipeline shipping, trucking, storage and selling, not to mention vehicle manufacturing. Likely be cheaper as well just because of the…