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We pay these. It’s called road tax instead of gas tax. To punitive levels. It’s been covered ad nauseam on this forum. No one is getting a free ride.

Yep. I don’t count myself in that category either.

If it's one vehicle, yes. I remember the Escalade that died and wouldn't start going down the highway with 50 miles on the odometer that everyone freaked out about. Is it a problem? Of course. If it's a one off and fixed, there's not really a whole lot to say. Vehicles are insanely...

That meets the statistical averages across the country. The offer more affordable options than Ford and Dodge though, so I see how they landed on the average sale price.

There’s definitely a couple of arguments on what killed the car and I do find it to be a multi pronged attack. The thing is that people are still buying cars and a 41mpg CAFE average when making them taller can qualify under the 26mpg standard is pretty telling. I don’t think premium cars do...

I just want to clarify having a bunch of EVs or not is not a show of success in my opinion. Toyota more recently and Kia/Hyundai have continued to make more affordable options while almost every other manufacturer has focused on trucks and SUVs. Toyota’s focus on CAFE seems to be to make a...

Cars are clean now, we can stop the emissions push is not a phrase that will come out. It’s going to be stuck with the same brain dead approach as corporate profits, especially as more cars hit the road. It’s not our call and I don’t think at this point voting would change it. Cars are...

Keep screwing the local worker and that’s what you’ll get. Time to exploit them in other areas and hope they don’t complain. I’m not going to pretend to know what their struggles are, but I’m union and most don’t understand mine. I’m paid well because of it, but I don’t have any real standard...

It’s the standard procedure for emissions and CAFE. We were going to get here eventually. There’s more cars than ever on the road and our air is cleaner than it ever has in time since it was implemented. I don’t like being told what to do either, but it’s working. It’s not an argument any of...

I don’t think either are the solution, but they are both an answer to something. If overall emissions are the enemy, rampant consumerism and consumption are the bigger issue. The best any of us can do is what makes the most financial sense and save us time. For us it was and EV and home...

It is. He was really considering the Golf R as his other choice.

I’ve lost one transmission and one engine in 20+ years of driving. It’s really not common in my experience either. Both were around 110k miles and older vehicles I bought. I don’t know how the previous owners maintained them.

It does look cool and there’s no denying it looks like a Hummer. I don’t understand how they got to the weight of 9.2k lbs though. I need to look into the technical information. I know the battery is huge, but I would have thought if there was somewhere to save weight to extend range they...

The Humvee had plenty of time to get flushed out and government contract money to service a purpose. The H1 was the culmination of all of that with some leather, shiny paint, and some creature comforts added in. If the H1 was having day one release problems at that stage it would have been a...

I actually didn't see the size of it to be that shocking, but I may have had a different reaction if I hadn't went to look at the F150 Lightning the day before. I think the proportions do a lot towards making it look bigger than it actually is. It's not small, that's for sure, but it's more...

Sounds like we both have our wives to thank! 👍

They just need service. Which of course adds cost. I had a 2004 GTO with the auto and it was solid and worked perfectly at 110k miles. It had 3 fluid changes by then though. Automatic transmission service is the last thing on the average owner's mind though. It's what kills me about buying...

Really is the hardest part to explain in the conversation. It's why no one's opinions change until they actually see how it works. It takes a conscious effort to want to understand it before realizing how easy it can be after doing it. With my wife wanting the car and myself happy to get her...

Did I miss something? What does Twitter have to do with the recall?

Yeah, it's happened to many. I was always amazed when it went recall level with Toyota. We didn't used to have all floor mats tagged to the floor to keep them in place, but it's so standard now and a great feature.