I’d love to see your evidence for that claim.

The city failed to impound the car after 91 speeding in a school zone? The state did not see fit to revoke his license (or reach out to PA to have it revoked there if that’s where he had his license). The city chose to perform a hot pursuit in a highly trafficked neighborhood over a red light violation.

All that said, she should be put in a cell with a bedsheet and told to do the right thing.

It depends if your overall concern is EV adoption generally, or specifically just US production.

Over a half mile, fairly straight, no cross-traffic - you think anyone is actually going to do 35mph there? Any competent traffic engineer would know that without putting in something to enforce speed control (like speed humps) there is no way that traffic will follow that speed limit.

For an individual I will buy this argument. For a household I will not. A small compact plus a family vehicle is sufficent for most families. My wife and I simply swap vehicles if we need to transport the children. There is no need for both of us to have a vehicle large enough to transport all the children all the…

We were three kids in an ‘86 Camry and it was no big deal. We drove from Portland to Vancouver, BC regularly without issue.

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Better analogy would be if the municipality taxes bigger houses a higher rate than smaller houses, get a smaller house to avoid bigger tax rate. This is exactly what car manufacturers do. Bigger vehicle = bigger markup.

You find it strange that someone would talk about practicality and budgeting in a post about inflated car prices? I’m not sure what you were expecting to find here. 

Speaking of “obvious”, you obviously distorted how markups work. They don’t markup an economy car at the same rate they do the vehicles people emotionally want. You can’t get $40k out of customer for a base Honda Civic, but you can get $70k out of someone shopping for a Suburban, which is mostly just a lot more air in…

I disagree completely. One because of a strawman with the housing analogy.

100% agreed with you. The argument reads like “don’t compromise on size. Compromise on an off brand or whatever”

Except people convince themselves that they *need* all that space. I helped a family of 4 shop for a new car. The kids are 8 and 11. They do not have cubic yards of stuff anymore. But a sedan was off the table. 3-row crossover or nothing. Minivan? No. Larger 2-row SUV? No.  “But it’s so expensive!!!”  Well, yeah. You…

Nah you are just trying to find something to nitpick so you can write an article and get paid. We have been saying for decades Americans are over buying and that is a fact. Also, since SUV/CUV’s are in demand sedans don’t have as big of a markup. Take a Kia, the Sorento has a much bigger markup than the K5 right now.

This is why I downsized to a compact sedan from an SUV. I almost never have passengers in the car with me. Of course that was before I met my possible future wife and mother of my children. Now I’m thinking will it baby? I’m sure it will but it might be a tight squeeze with the size of modern child seats and my 6'3"…

100%. We have two cars that can fit our family of four. One is midsize for more comfortable long trips and cargo space. But the other is a compact, which we just use around town.

This seems just hyperbolic to me. Your example would be more like:

If you are shopping for a single family, three bedroom, 2500sqft house, try shopping for one under 2000sqft. Maybe if you had said Highlander to Yaris it would be a better comparison but also just as inane.

It’s easier to justify buying a large truck or SUV when inventory is high, gas is cheap, and interest rates are low. The question shoppers should be asking themselves is if they really need a larger vehicle, or if something smaller can do the job while saving them thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars. Forbes…

I would prefer to buy a small car over a larger vehicle because it is easier to drive, less anxiety about parking the thing, better fuel economy, and the feeling that you are not wasting so much space in a smaller vehicle if you are driving by yourself or one passenger 99 percent of the time.