Where did the 7.5L go? 7.3L? 6.8L?

The displacement is going down, on average, but the hood line and engine compartment volume keep going up.

HD trucks already are moving to smaller displacement engines.  Not 4 cylinders, but still smaller -the trend is more pronounced at the higher end of the line (think F-350+) - but it is happening.

Fleet averages are irrelevant since each model gets its own individual target under CAFE now.

But, no, there are plenty of vehicles out there today that meet 2025 targets. Hell, you can get an F-150 today that is less than 1 mpg off the 2025 targets. Just from a quick search for cars alone, we have the following all…

If they cut off the hood above the bar with the chevrolet emblem on it, it would look better. The entire engine compartment is grotesquely oversized.

And the sad thing is that as they’re going to smaller displacement engines, they don’t need the massive compartment as much, but they keep growing the damned thing.

Model T.

Already a collectible, WELL under your budget, parts are easy to get, and they’re easy to work on.

You haven’t met many businesspeople, if you think they aren’t stupid, have you? :)

They aren’t moving production to Mexico.

They are going to build the new Chevy Blazer in an existing plant in Mexico that had excess capacity. That plant was already tooled to build midsize crossovers. And at the time GM made the decision to place the Blazer there, it was the only plant they had with excess capacity…

Looking more and more like VW might turn to Ford for any capacity they want.

WTF?

There are many vehicles on the road TODAY that meet the 2025 targets.  2021 is a freaking piece of cake.

A fair number of people don’t understand the difference between opening a factory overseas to produce goods for the US market while closing one in the US versus opening a factory overseas to produce goods for that market while closing one in the US that wasn’t profitable and couldn’t affordably fill the demand for…

1st:

Ignorant freakin’ congressmen don’t seem to understand that a business will always look at its options and look to what move will maximize profits going forward, forget about what happened in the past.

Give them a huge tax break? Great - but that will NOT cause them to invest a single penny or hire an extra…

Well, for comparison, here’s a Chevrolet Bolt battery:

Oh, we know they aren’t doing everything efficiently.

Because the fools in charge thought that they knew a better way to do things than what Toyota/Honda/Ford/GM/Nissan/etc had already figured out. Hint - if the guys fighting in a ruthless market selling $20k vehicles found that x/y/z is the most efficient way to do…

Good points, but you may be surprised.

The press loved to attack the Chevrolet Volt as a money loser by dividing total costs by the number produced - giving them outrageous figures like $89,000 per vehicle, because obviously all battery research GM had ever done to that point should be counted against a small number of…

Or glad that he hasn’t had to open the door in the cold.

Try working on a product that sells for pennies.

“Hey, do you think you could find a way to save a thousandth of a cent?”

:)

Except they’re still contracting out the cells.

Model X was initially promised well below what it came in for as well.  

Forget just embarrassing...

Many computerized forms filter for obviously fake names. Qwerty is filtered out. So is Asdf. And Abcde.

That’s right - Abcde is a common entry for people faking a name, so it is often rejected outright.  Kid might not ever get to an interview simply because the computer thinks she’s a…

I may be delusional, but I think it would actually help a lot of poor people. From the Energy Information Agency, here’s average spending on gas and oil by income level: