I think the disappointment was palpable when the Blazer was announced around the same time as the Bronco, one being a throwback to the awesome one of decades ago, and the other decidedly not. A removable roof K5 Blazer return would have been awesome.

I like it if the new car is actually similar to the old one. Not necessarily in styling, but in spirit. It’s got to be a similar type of vehicle.

An old car spews more pollution than a new one, but it’s incredibly carbon-heavy to make a new one. We should be providing tax incentives to make old cars cleaner burners and fight for repair instead of replacement.

Gas taxes should be higher. Like, much higher.

Yep and Crossovers are considered “light trucks” and don’t have to get the same gas mileage they would if they were station wagons (Cars) even to this day.

Yeap. My prediction is that the loophole will be for large commerical vehicles like HD pickups, HD box vans, etc, since there aren’t any EV vehicles in this class right now.  So, you will see an explosion of Sprinter vans being used as family vehicles.  Then people will want to keep this size vehicle because they are…

Two years ago I scrapped a car I bought in 1998. It was a Nissan Maxima with 370,000 miles and it was rusting in important structural places. I hated to see it go. It spent a lot of time sitting over the 21 years I had it, as a backup car to several other vehicles, but I always held onto it just to have a manual to…

No, registrations are banned too, so there’s going to be a lot of cars with Idaho plates driving around in Washington.

It also includes a clause that won’t go into effect until 75% of vehicles in the state are covered by a road usage/vehicle miles traveled charge, where taxes are assessed based on how many miles a vehicle is driven

I predict 2029MY vehicles (HD trucks especially) will become more valuable than gold in the PNW.

1st and Neutral: It isn’t going to happen. 2030 will come and go, and gas car sales won’t be banned in Washington. 2035 will come and go, and gas car sales wont be banned in California.

100% true!  and I say this as an BMW i3 owner that experiences a physical comedy routine with back seat passengers all too often in crowded parking lots. 

OMG. That little plastic clip on the A-pillar of older Volvos is pure genius. My boss in the late ’90s had a Volvo S70. Beautiful car, and it could really move. I loved everything about that car. But when I saw that little clip, I just about lost it, because it was so simple, yet so useful.

The R is for race, try it on the highway like a push-to-pass button!

My Camaro has this lever with six numbers and an “R” in the center console.

Clearly his problem is more money than taste. We really shouldn’t enable him.

That could work. A lot of off road SUVs use a conversion gull wing kit for the rear window. Works pretty well for easy fast access. Mazda could even just make the rear window roll down quickly from an outside button. My 4Runner rear hatch window rolls down and I use that a lot to access the rear cargo area in tight…

I think the idea of the rear door is fine. I’ve just owned a few and they never seem to really work well. The biggest issue every one I’ve owned has had - these are all extended cab trucks - is that they never really seal well. So there’s just the constant wind noise that develops after a few years. Maybe I could just…

I’d guess there’s almost zero possibility that that’s the case. If they did, you’d need a pillar in the middle that would make access practically impossible to the rear. The rear has to shut first to provide the pillar location for the front door seals to close against.

Using the rotary as a electrical generator means it won’t have reliability issues. It also means it won’t add any character to the car beyond being quirky.