Realistically, if you have your pickup bed maxed out weight wise with dirt, rock, bricks etc... is your jack even rated to lift that MF without doing some unloading? 

Pretty much. But that’s nothing new in the truck world.

So screw the middle class guys working at Honda in Ohio because some Japanese one percenters are making some money American one percenters could be making? Don’t worry our American auto CEO’s are making money having their trucks built in Mexico.

You’re using math instead of made up numbers to justify your choices. That math and science stuff is the sort of thinking that leads the downer of believing climate change is real or the idea you can’t afford a four hundred thousand dollar mortgage with balloon payments on your minimum wage job. With thinking like…

If it’s got a cloth top it can’t be a perfect city car unless you are living in some kind of Utopian city. Targa or removable hardtop is going to save you so many parking worries in the city. Soft top convertibles are magnets for urban thieves with knives looking for that buck fifty of change in your ash tray, your…

I wonder how the aero holds up on a first gen Celica at 200mph. That must be a handful.

Probably in a bid to put him all the way at the back of the line so other people are discouraged from following his lead.

You could apply that saying to both VW & this guy... and it works equally well.

VW sold the guy a car that illegally pollutes by design ....so how was it ever “legally” allowed on the road in the first place?

That’s auto’s.

Thanks.

The kind of person who drives on a destroyed wheel at freeway speeds ignoring screeching, sparking and loss of handling and you think she is going to look over at you and follow your hand gesture advice?

Does AMA stand for against medical advice or something entirely different?

That R&D gave us V8 with better mileage then the anemic six cylinders of yore. It also more or less doubled the horsepower of most engines because it increased efficiency. Let’s not go back to the GM malaise days of little innovation where most cars were the same crap pile in a different wrapper.

Take a science class or head over to India for a spell.

That’s easy just make sure it was manufactured before 1975.

Yeah they are setting the stage for the next American bailout for sure.

CARB is the honey badger of bureaucracies. I’ll put my money on them in that fight.  

Point is your still screwing over the people driving 20 year old civics as well. If you focus on taxing new vehicles by gas guzzler categories you will be far more effective at changing new cars and do far less damage to the poor and lower middle class. The worst off can’t afford to drive suburbans anyway. Meanwhile…

A thousand times this. Screwing over the poor by taxing them harder then the wealthy in yet another way is a sure fire way to trash the economy.