Unsolicited advice from someone that has purchased two C6 z06es: If you want to drive the shit out of the car and not worry about breaking or parts rarity, buy the Vette. If you want to drive sparingly and maintain resale value, buy the Viper.

Consumers are to blame for sure. people don’t upgrade vehicles to increase efficiency they upgrade vehicles for vanity/aesthetics and for the technology/gadgets that they are missing out on their own vehicles. and of course their next car has to be faster because otherwise what’s the point? The price premium of the…

Spot on!

I’ve found myself saying it a lot recently. We’ve gotten ourselves into a cycle of:

This was quite apparent for me recently on a trip to France. A friend and I rented a Peugeot 3008 SUV. It has a gas engine, not a hybrid, and was rated at near 65 mpg. The Diesel variant, I researched, was capable of doing 70 mpg. The car was really nice, had all the bells and whistles you’d expect, and retails…

I don’t know about about our ability to improve a species when it comes to instantaneous pleasures — I mean, come on, we’re a bunch of dumbasses who are not that far removed from dragging out knuckles — but your fundamental point is correct. A $25k Camry is getting 300 horses these days, which means it would…

With luck Maralago will be the first thing underwater.

Right there with you. Every time I joke about Florida falling into the sea I have to stop and think... those people have to end up somewhere if they’re not all contained in Florida.

You have a puritanical definition of theft. I’ve entered into no agreement to receive more than I’ve requested.

I was with you up until the part about Florida.

Never underestimate the ability of either party to do something completely stupid.

Actually, this isn’t the real problem. A more thermally efficient engine will make more power naturally. The real problem is weight and frontal area. Look up what family haulers weighed 30 years ago, and look what they weigh now. There is simply no way to make a 5500 lb SUV with a giant frontal area fuel efficient.

Unless the democrats find someone even more incompetent and unlikable than Clinton for ‘20, I think we will be alright. This last election was a situation of one party losing, not one party winning.

once Trump is out in ‘20.

Would be much more ironic if they were VW ads.

Have you been to this family of sites lately? If you scanned down the first 10 pieces of any of them you would find like 3 sponsored stories, 3 for Amazon’s daily deals, and 4 for actual stories. That doesn’t even account for the 5 to 7 ads between those 10 pieces. These sites are ad revenue whores for their new pimp.

What’s stupid is that car makers are fully capable of meeting the efficiency standards. Engines have become vastly more efficient over the decades. But instead of that translating to gains in mpg, it translates to gains in horsepower while mpg remains stagnant. Instead of stuffing another 100hp into a Ford family…

This post had 10 Porsche ads in it. Seriously. 10! Come on.

Weakening the US standard will do nothing if the EU still maintains a stringent standard. All cars except for US cars will be expected to meet that standard and the US manufacturers will keep pace or surpass to not be left behind again (like in the 80's or Aughts).

I’m assuming that some Americans out there support this and are short-sighted enough that they’ve forgotten the SUV-pocalypse of the early aughts, when Detroit was puking out pushrod-powered, ladder-framed monstrosities with covered wagon-era suspensions. We couldn’t get enough of those back then, either. I can…