Except for that whole life insurance thing.

Buuut, it does affect everyone else's insurance. We're all in the same risk pool.

The franchise model is one of the dumbest ideas and incredibly archaic with very little transparency. As cars have shifted further into commodity territory it escapes me how it continues other than "that is how it's done."

So you are saying that dirty powerplants are dirty? Does Jalopnik need another captain obvious? I could use a side job....

I don't think any of those are that bad. I'd probably pick all of them over white.

No, never owned a black car. I suppose that is one color that probably shows dirt even worse than white. Out of the car colors I've had the white looked dirty the easiest to me. At least with black if it's super clean and polished it looks like you could dive into the paint, it has depth.

Out of the 6 colors that car is offered in I think that is the least attractive.

3rd- I would think the Audi mechanic would know better than that given all the experience they get with Audi's legendary reliability (ha!)

That is why the per capita consumption is better. You have both of the inputs both the total usage and the population. You can see how density lowers that.

Well it looks good when it's touched up in Photoshop for sure. I couldn't (quickly) find too many pics of the newest GTI but IMO, this is better of what you might see in the real world.

Seriously. It could be anything pretty much. I am sure you could substitute Beer for gas and you would see that places with high populations consume the most because that's basic math.

"Accordingly, those red stains moved from the Southwest, northern Plains, and Southeast to Southern California, the area around New York City, and other urban areas where a lot of people live. So much for the "blame it on the pickup truck driving rednecks" approach to reducing oil consumption."

Definitely. Pearl gives it much more 'depth' than Whirlpool White (as I call it.)

White.

I think the F-250 is heavy enough it isn't covered by those regulations? Aren't all vehicles with a GVWR exempt?

CAFE should just get rid of the 'light truck' class. It is a silly exemption when 99.99% of the vehicles are just ferrying around people. The averages should be weighted as well. If carmaker X sells 300,000 of an efficient vehicle and 5,000 of one that gets 8mpg it should be reflected in their calculations.

I used to live in NYC and while I ultimately ended up selling my car I did have it for quite awhile and found these rules to be good.

Neutral: I do own a little bit of Ford. It was fairly cheap and definitely more of a long-term play.

Aesthetics are highly suspect. Not mechanically perfect. Not at 30 grand.

It's really only a short-term problem: