The big reason why manufacturers want to preserve the 2025 regulations is because they’ve already developed cars people don’t want. At least with CAFE in effect, all their competition is stuck in the same boat, so consumers have no choice to buy a car they don’t necessarily want.

No one is interested in a company who has routinely missed manufacture deadlines, has terrible build quality, poor reliability, cars literally fall apart in the rain, has reportedly bad working conditions and is run by someone who calls a hero who risked his life to save children a pedophile? I’m shocked I tell you,…

From what I have seen, the automakers are quietly freaking out over the 2025 rule. There is no way to get the vehicles that people currently want to buy to that level of fuel efficiency and still meet 5 star crash test standards. 2020 standards are pretty much the ragged edge of what is achievable.  ....after that,…

I just can’t understand why this is so hard for people to understand.

Had this problem on my 73 mustang. Get a phenolic carb spacer - ~$20 and it was the best fix I ever did on that car.

If you consider your time worth nothing, this is completely true. How many hours would you expect to put into an 8 second car?

OMG...where’s the soundtrack? You can’t mention how loud it is and not give us that Supercharged V8 music.

We had books. I learned from books. No internet.

Recent college grad who had landed her first job as a teacher in Chicago. Her dad had always bought Fords and she was driving his Fairlane to work until she could save up for a down payment on her own car. They went to the Ford dealer her dad traded with to look at cars and an over-zealous salesman told her about this…

An “avid wrencher” let the car sit for almost 3 decades? Let’s be real here.

I would say that pretty much any 50 year old car looks special at this point in pretty much any condition, not just restored. People compliment my Falcon all the time, and I point out that when new it was in a fight with the Plymouth Valiant to be the most boring car one could possibly buy in 1968, and it is in…

Came here to say this...Bronco III; although, I’d love to see an OJ edition.  Orange with creme stripes, and the first 500 are shipped with a complimentary Kato Kailin in the cargo space.

Damn, thats a good point.

It should be, since the Bronco was based off a full-size frame, the Bronco II was based off the Ranger, now the Bronco III is based off a car. The only thing left is to figure out a way to make the Bronco III even more likely to roll over than the Bronco II.

Ignoring the fact that you lumped the small-pickup sales in with medium and heavy duty chassis in order to take your “win” (which wouldn’t actually exist if you took out the colorado twins). Ford offers buyers 4 options for medium and heavy duty trucks GM offers six across two different brands. AND YET...if you…

Their conclusion: GM could cut weight in its trucks for a lower cost using doors made of a combination of aluminum and high strength steel that could be thinner than standard steel, shaving off kilograms in the process.

It probably sounds great, pulling in and out of the garage once every May to be washed and waxed,driven back inside and covered. Grandpa’s new piece doesn’t like riding in it, so they end up driving her ES350 everywhere they go.

Yeah, let’s tell owners that if they wait long enough to bring their vehicle in, we’ll pay them cash. That’ll end well.

The fact that no one has made a small truck for the American market just boggles the mind. I would imagine that they could get pretty decent MPG figures with the right engine and transmission combo, which could only help boost CAFE numbers.

...but if we just slash the tax rate for top earners a little bit more, that trickle down we’ve been promised will finally happen!!