In my opinion, the right thing to do is to buy based on quality and value. Globalization isn’t a 4 letter word (it’s a good thing) and nothing is going to stop it.

5th Gear: As a loan officer in an indirect lending department at a credit union, my experience has been that a large number of dealers don’t give a shit whether the info they’re getting from customers is true, because once they find an institution willing to finance the sale and the dealership gets their check then…

Those American built Japanese cars were probably engineered in America, not Japan. https://hondainamerica.com/r-and-d/ 

I’d agree. I think the situation is that people SAY they don’t like cars built outside their home country but the reality is that they don’t really vote with their wallets in that sense. If people did vote with their wallets then politicians wouldn’t have to make a big deal out of it because there would be no…

In my experience working in manufacturing this was definitely the opposite. We constantly had to rework stuff that was being sent to us from Mexico because the people were poorly trained and treated.

I literally do not care where my car is built. I care more about who built it. Both of my Japanese cars were built in America. I wouldn’t buy an American car built in America or Mexico or China because what matters to me is how well the car is engineered.

Because a lot of them are actually built in the US?

Yup. In speaking with my auto insurance provider, they claimed that reducing the distance driven to work would increase our premium because blah, blah, blah parked away from home for a longer time blah, blah.  

It’s funny, you make a valid point, but then get a bunch of comments totally ignoring the point you're trying to make. Why is the mpg penalty on a 5.3 like 1-2mpg for going 4x4, but then here it’s 4mpg? And no difference at all in the city? Something isn’t adding up. It’s not as bad as Ford, but it still sticks out.

High pressure common rail, dynamic timing and VGT turbo will make this thing significantly more responsive than the diesels of yesteryear.

It makes sense. The extra weight is significant. The parasitic loss of the drivetrain is even bigger. They eek out every additional MPG by streamlining the aerodynamics, cutting weight and reducing drivetrain parasitic losses everywhere they can, and the 4WD drivetrain undoes a lot of it. Honestly a good majority of…

Taller truck with worse aero, wider tires with a more aggressive tread compound, driveline loss and possibly lower gearing - I could see any or all of those things combining to lower the mileage.

Yeah! And after 79.9 years the fuel savings vs. my ‘01 Silverado it will pay for itself!

While impressive for a truck, it probably also costs 3x as much as your Malibu did. You can buy a lot of gas with $30,000. 

I think the point he was making is that fuel economy on larger cars isn’t as much of a penalty as it used to be. Smaller cars will always be more efficient, but the gap has been closed significantly. At a certain point, consumers don’t care about economy anymore. 

Oh ya, because the person shopping for a Honda Fit TOTALLY has $45k to drop on a Silverado. Have fun with your 84 month car loans.

Chevy spent much of their engineering budget on the new-from-the-ground-up engine, and here we see the [impressive] results.  They did not spend so much on the interior (or rear suspension, for that matter).

Was there really no other name available besides “Maverick X3 X RC Turbo RR”?

That asterisk looks expensive

Can Am X3 X Rc Turbo RR