So, aside from brand image issues, the only real thing wrong with the car is the shitty toyota slushbox. I guess we will never know what it would be like with a proper transmission.

Don’t worry, Ford isn’t going to make cars anymore, so you will get to branch out to other beige cars.

If you google F650 Lariat you will see tons of them.

Nothing surprises me anymore when it comes to giant vehicles. Everything comes with a “Platinum” trim level.

If you can’t replace something this simple then there is something wrong with you, and that thing is laziness.

There are a lot less of those on the road, but most of that weight is utilized for a reason. Generally shipping cargo. There aren’t may long haul operators that aren’t trying to make sure they have a full load for every trip out and back. That being said, as we transition away from fuel taxes, we would need a new…

How is this anyone’s problem but the person who didn’t pay attention and left their car running. Its just like those stupid airbag warning stickers on your visor or the endless list of prop 65 warnings in California.

Drive by wire throttle is by far the worst thing to ever happen to automobile driving enjoyment.

Yeah, I better have an oil pressure gauge on my electric car or its not cool.

I don’t know about that roadster. Looks like an Alcantara headliner in the video, and then it will come out with a regular fabric headliner and no one will want it anymore.

After a sufficient phase in period to allow automakers to adjust, I say tax them all the same. If your company owner needs a giant 6000 lb truck to drive around and look cool, then he can pay the extra taxes. Anything over 4000 lbs is completely unnecessary.

Sure, the small, outdated, inefficient cheap cars are still around because they are cheap and they don’t spend development dollars on them. They may not be as efficient as the hybrids but they are more efficient than giant SUVs and trucks, but they are also marketed at a less affluent demographic.

Something tells me that Brooklyn 99 has a much wider viewing audience than neilsens reports show. No one watches scheduled TV anymore, so why do we still look at their obsolete ratings?

Then don’t get the already overweight car and just get the purpose built hybrid. The Accord Hybrid is over 1000 lbs heaver than the Honda Insight. If manufacturers had an incentive to focus on weight, they can make the cars lighter.

Eliminating the current system and replacing it with a weight based system would remedy this situation and encourage lighter vehicles. When you look at the current crop of hybrids, they remove excess weight wherever possible to increase battery mileage.

Your concerns are unwarranted. Yes, it will encourage people to buy smaller vehicles by penalizing car purchases based on weight, but the current crop of hybrids are all on the lighter side of the spectrum because weight dramatically decreases electric mileage which is a key selling point. Manufacturers actually…

Not really, they have to shoehorn it through the commerce clause, and that is still legally challenging. Most things are done with block grant style bribery. That’s why your Federal Taxes are so high when they should be at least 30% lower. That extra cash is what is making the counties around Washington DC the richest…

Gross vehicle weight covers this perfectly. If you were to put the current 2018 Honda Accord Engine with its current emissions technology into the 1988 Honda Accord you would see dramatic increases in fuel economy and an equally impressive reduction in overall maintenance costs. Weight wears out suspensions, tires,…

First of all, overall traffic deaths are down. Second of all, I say we start taxing the gross vehicle weight instead of the epa fuel mileage.

This is why I have a shitbox Ford Ranger. Too old to have complicated stuff to break, and it sits when its not hauling stuff to and from. Its not much fun to drive, that’s for sure, but it costs less than a transmission for these giant station-wagons CUVs that everyone is driving now.