Good point — that’s how I read it.
*IF* a Bronco Raptor was considered a ‘passenger car’, and *IF* these values were inflation adjusted, then it it would incur a gas guzzler tax of $9500 today!

Maybe they’re hoping that Chrysler and Dodge dealers just give up and shut down since they’ll have no vehicles to sell. Jeep and Ram will keep going, and stellantis can start selling EV’s directly to the buyer under a new, untarnished brand name!

Seriously, you’d pick that over this:

Ignoring the crazy expensive yacht stuff, I wonder if the real story here is that *everything* is more expensive. The combination of the $T’s of COVID stimulus *and* the ongoing supply chain issues *and* the energy issues due to Russia being the new Nazis basically means we took a massive hit of inflation. Things are…

I think you would have to purchase an F350 sized vehicle to get out of the CAFE limit. The “light truck” category covers vehicles that are up to 8500 lbs, I believe. The CAFE limits penalize the manufacturer.

Note to MB: as long as your super-ultra-pantheistic-whatever vehicle looks exactly like a $120K S-class sedan, no one will buy it. People in the 0.001% do not buy uber-luxury sedans to look like they’re part of the 1%.

I thought the “63" came from the “600" class vehicles that originally referenced the V12. More specifically, the 6.3L V12 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_M137_engine).

If you want to be really apples-to-apples then compare the manual GTI with the (manual) Si:

They probably could have gotten away with this if it wasn’t some huge sponsored corporate event. Since it was highly publicized, then I think the FAA has every right to jump in and issue some penalties to these guys. If they really wanted to avoid FAA, then just fly outside of US airspace -- it’s it similar to how…

As a concept car I think I like it:

Just for kicks, I went to the current Macan GTS configurator and added every premium *leather* option. The result for all these leather surfaces in custom colors was an additional $15,490. How many hamburgers would I need to eat to yield this amount of cowhide?

That’s true -- for this car at least it *needed* an offset plate due to ugly design vs. most people today.  lol

Yeah, I’m just imaging a 12" dog with an entire back seat or trunk area in something like an A6 Allroad — I guess it really depends how much other stuff this guy packs.

Claimed to be one of only five such models built in its particular color combination of Cubanite

I like all these wagon suggestions, but I got to mention the caveat that maintenance costs on a used MSRP = $80K Mercedes or Jaguar are going to be a big high.

Uh... google search “frenchie dog height”. It’s ~12 inches!

Looks horrendous. The pointy beak at the front made me immediately think of an early 1990's Buick Skylark

At some level it’s a minimum spec thing. I’d think that a $60K luxury sedan with less than 300hp was a bit pathetic today, too. Do I *need* 300hp? No. Do I even use >150hp on a daily basis — probably not.

*So many* Americans want their personal freedoms at the *expense* of society. Covid19 is a great example of this with all the IDIOTS who refused the vaccine, but went to the hospital when they got infected and developed severe symptoms. This was/is a huge penalty to society as it takes away limited heathcare resources…

I agree — it’s compelling and they got some very legitimate people (the air crew) behind the story.