Non-minivan owners go on reputation of brands, not the fact that the minivan is literally the most important project to Chrysler’s brand and therefore gets the most attention in house.

Yeah, but it just doesn’t project the image that some people are looking for when driving F-250s and bigger as their commuter vehicle to their work in a downtown metro area, and always picking the spots in the ramp to cause the most inconvenience.

What are you confused on? Either automakers just stop producing Trucks and SUVs cold turkey and force the market into smaller fuel efficient vehicles, or they suck up the fines and lay people off. Either way I’m not sure why automakers are complaining, the emissions regulation proposal isn’t for another 10 years,…

If your license is valid to drive in New York City or LA, then you need to know how to drive in traffic.

I spent 10 months last year working throughout Eastern Europe. Here’s a short list of what they do right on the road vs us:

“Don’t slow way down on the highway to let someone go in front of you.”

The mirror adjustment really irritates me. 99% of people are looking at their own cars and for what? So you can see the exact same thing 3 times? You should only have a slight overlap of what you see between all 3 mirrors and if I can see your stupid face in the side mirror from the car behind you, you are doing it…

1st gear: I am curious what would happen if the legacy automakers just stopped all trucks and SUV production instantly and specifically names CAFE as the reason. Oh the chaos that will ensue, “Fun isn’t something one considers when balancing the universe. But this does put a smile on my face”

Can we just rewind to around ‘01 when the PT cruiser was new. At the time, it was a dirt cheap, stylish, sizable economy car with none of the stigma that we think of today. If the choice was a Corolla or a PT Cruiser for a similar price, you’d have to be batshit crazy, or a Toyota loyalist, to have wanted the Corolla. …

Sure. All I know is that selling them helped my pay rent.

I don’t think the PT belongs. It may not be your cup of tea, but a major part of the reason why they sold somewhere around 20 billion of them is because people like the way they look.

You all need to get over the Aztek. 

Exactly.

I’m sure it’s all that and not the fact that Americans are fat, lazy, and feel entitled to drive.......

Oh, great, so the slides now require 4 clicks to advance?? Go F yourselves with your slideshows... 

I rode in my friends low mile Avalon. Liked the pep. So I bought a V6 RAV4 that had the same engine. ~120k miles, clean body and interior. Should be good for another 150k easy. In the one year I owned it the Toyota battery had a bad cell - had to be replaced. Then the AC compressor kicked the bucket. Then the brake…

Worst: 2006 Sienna, 2006 Avalon (but great interior) both were nightmares.

And then there’s the whole average vs. median transaction price thing. There are a fair number of very expensive cars being sold, and those push up average (arithmetic mean) values so much as to make them useless for defining what commonly is understood as “average” (meaning typical).

My wife, our oldest daughter, and our son each drove my SRT-4 Neon for a while. I swore I was going to teach my kids to drive stick, and I succeeded with 2 out of 3 of them. I bought the SRT new, and it’s definitely been driven (and seen a fair amount of track time). A couple of weeks ago was the 20-year anniversary…

The Average American is not buying a new car. There are 130 million households in the USA and only 13 million new cars were sold last year. So each holdhold only buys a new car once every 10 years, and with 2.5 adults per household, that works out to a new car per person every ~25 years.