Yup that was my buddies, just auto lol. It wasn’t a bad truck, but it was what all trucks were back then, just a truck.  Nothing fancy just did what it needed to do, and also they were reasonably sized.  I looked it up a while back but a mid 1990's full size truck, is the same size as what’s considered a mid sized…

My buddy had a mid 90's S-10 with the 4 banger and hated it as it had no power, though it was the auto not stick so that may have been an issue. Also strangely the passenger side door had a little plastic piece on top that had a habit of popping off all the time.

This doesn't remove the engines from the road just displaces them to neighboring states

Counterpoint— they are shit for things like cast iron pans.

My F-150 is way more luxy than a Tesla

lol at the idea of calling a Tesla a “Luxury” car. 

The only thing luxurious about a Tesla is the price.

Teslas are not luxury vehicles. The build quality, materials, and most importantly, service experience are far behind luxury competitors. 

I’ve lived and driven in the same midwest city for 31 years and I can say without a doubt that adding lanes to various portions of the higways around here has VASTLY improved the road. Going from a 2 lane highway to a 3 lane highway is huge. You now have a fast lane, a not as fast lane, and a merge lane. Adding a 4th…

Add the Maine Turnpike to that list, and pretty much any other interstate highway that only has two lanes. The turnpike was a *nightmare* back in the day when it was only a 2-lane in each direction road, and the section they are currently widening past Portland still is. As is 2-lane I-295 through Portland and up the…

Wider highways in established areas and new highways to growing areas are a good idea when warranted.

And that would be the complete opposite for me. An hour to get to work by car. By train? Maybe half that. Even commuting to the train station would still give me plenty of time to get to work. I’d like to see more money put into public transportation maybe extend stops so that people such as yourself won’t have to…

You bring up a couple important points. First, the most effective way to improve traffic will depend, like so many other things, on context. There is never a “one-size-fits-all” solution. Certainly there have been situations where widening the roads made a long term improvement.

Also, where do you start when attempting to fix this? In a better organized society, klurejr would prefer to live closer to work. If it was well designed, people would cluster around public transport instead of being spread out in a suburban smegma.

There should just be a hard cap on cost no matter what the vehicle is. Let’s go with $50k, if you are buying a $50k+ vehicle no credit. Or maybe $60k? But if you are buying a $70k car there is no reason you should get a $7,500 credit.

“Limiting what vehicles qualify based on MSRP makes a lot of sense; nobody buying a $120,000 Lucid Air needs a $7,500 break.”

Ford claim to sell more trucks than Chevy....which they do. They don’t claim to sell more trucks than GM.

Yup. That is the argument GM fans make year after year- that when you combine GMC and Chevy trucks together, they are actually the perennial sales leader.

I visited a lot a few months ago and there was literally a line item on the sticker that said “Dealer Markup - $5,000.00"

It doesn’t help that Ford includes all F-Series. It makes sense that a Raptor would be included with F-150 tallies, but also the F-250s/Super Duties/etc.?