there is a brand-new 2017 Colorado crew cab parked next to my POS 2001 F250 4x4 Super duty Standard Cab. They are disturbingly close in size.

no, I’m right. look it up. gas is pretty much the only thing you buy that’s not percentage taxed. It’s $0.184/gallon and has been since 1993. And it’s not like people have been using way more gas than they have been before. between higher fuel efficiency standards and people just driving less in general, the revenues…

you missed the post where the po-po get pictures of HOV users in-car real-time. They can just pull you over and check.

They don’t have to catch them all. The fine for the violation covers (some of) the leakage, and the po-po party lights other drivers see on the side of the road discourages violations.

federal tax rate on gas hasn’t been upped in TWENTY FOUR YEARS. money has to come from somewhere. Roads are like the cars that use them: There’s a cost to get a new one, and a cost to operate one, and they’re not that different than you think.

Audi will paint their cars any custom colors you want for $3,900, so that’s a data point for you. There used to be a time when Ford would paint any car any color currently offered on any other Ford product for about $500, but that was a long time ago.

I always like the moderate 4x4 culture, which I guess is more of a clique than a full-blown culture, but somewhere between the trust fund baby mall crawlers (are malls still a thing?) and the full-blown trailer queen trail rigs, there’s a segment of off roaders that built-not-bough their rigs from hacked together bits…

I am unaware of any Burger Kings that have substantially changed in the past 20 years.

You said it best, a burger is the sum product of its parts in balance. It is not just a slab of meat nestled between two buns; that’s a porn movie, not a sandwich.

So would you say these things guzzle gas ‘liberally’?

If I had a wooden nickel for every poor sucker that buys into the #vanlife and ended up in a similar situation, I could build a log cabin.

Toyota keeps trying to peddle the hydrogen fuel cells. it’s never going to happen. They need to pull an Elsa and let that one go.

maybe now the engineers will finally understand the importance of accessibility for maintenance in original design. Nothing like having a seasoned mechanic threaten to stick a breaker bar where the sun don’t shine in real-time to the engineer that did the design.

While realizing that’s I’m deep in the comments, I KNOW that I have the perfect answer for this car, and I want you to read this very carefully:

four of these will be sold before a driver blacks-out from the acceleration and totals one. My father in law got hazy in the brain from a sprint in a Model S in Ludicrous Mode. 0-60 in 1.9 seconds would probably get him (or someone like him) to pass out.  

you get an S4. Everything else is BS. It comes in AWD, it’s got a ridiculously linear motor, and yes, it comes with a stick. You can get a new one for less than $50k if order from the book and keep your sticky fingers out of the options, or you can get a lightly used prior generation B8, and the stick versions are…

the AWD version of the challenger weighs about 200 lbs more than the RWD version. the Mustang weighs about 3650 lbs. I’d gladly take the 5.5% increase in curb weight for 100% more drive traction.

I realize that this may be an unpopular opinion, but why isn’t there an AWD option on pony cars? Pretty much every other car of appreciable power these days at least has it as an option, if not standard. Somehow, the ‘legacy’ models get a pass.

so you’re playing with mix designs in a lab.

you’re not a physical engineer. you’re probably something like software or EE or possibly a mechanical that never leaves his cubicle. willing to bet you never even looked up at the underside of a bridge.