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I do this for my close friends' cars (I refuse to buy anything that has these types of features in my own cars) I'm a tinkerer though, most people are lazy AF and prefer to just pay up.

Gas Prices Are Up, And So Are Searches For EVs: Edmunds - The Iran conflict is driving up gas prices. Edmunds says that shoppers are looking to electrified models for relief.

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Get a commuter motorcycle, 100mpg+ and a much lower impact on the environment. 'Nuff said

Gas Prices Are Up, And So Are Searches For EVs: Edmunds - The Iran conflict is driving up gas prices. Edmunds says that shoppers are looking to electrified models for relief.

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Or spent $6k+ for a beat Geo Metro the last time gas prices spiked

How much did gasoline and diesel go up in price in your place?

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For the countries that get oil through the Hormuz, yes. We don't.

How much did gasoline and diesel go up in price in your place?

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Which is hilarious considering very little of US oil comes through the Hormuz.

United We Stand, Together We Fall

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Depends what year you're asking that question in

Have we experienced 'peak car', and is it all downhill from here?

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That's what I'm saying, we can get that experience right now. We're living in the post peak car era because we can get a car that fulfills those requirements plus some for less than $50k and the choice spans decades.

Have we experienced 'peak car', and is it all downhill from here?

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A base C6 gives it way more than enough competition, don't even need to bring out the big dawgs for that one

Have we experienced 'peak car', and is it all downhill from here?

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>Peak car is when we can get Cayman GTS performance for \~50k So, go out and buy any stock Corvette from about the year 2000 on?

Ram CEO Says New Dakota Needs To Be a 'Real Truck' at $40,000

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I ride a moped so the boys'll know about my bussy

2028 Infiniti Q50 Is a 400-HP, Manual Sports Sedan Worth Waiting For

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Pretty cool, although I hope there's a way to bump up that 400hp. At nearly 4000lb it'll feel like a mid 2000s performance car, but at least they're going a good direction with it.

Is the hate for FWD sports cars warranted?

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ITT: People mistaking sports packages for sports cars

Is the hate for FWD sports cars warranted?

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An Integra is just a compact, with the Type R being a performance package added to a regular designed compact car, hence the term "sport compact". It's the same as my GT-S, it's a RWD 2-door with a six speed. It's not a sports car, it's a sport compact. It's an addition, a compromise to take something more utilitarian and inject a bit of sport into it. Sports cars are typically designed that way from the ground up, they aren't packages you can add on to grocery getters.

What ever happened to puddle lights? The ones actually installed on doors?

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I miss floor crotches

Farley Says Ford Couldn't Compete With Toyota And Hyundai, So It Stopped Trying

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Maybe not new, but there's a reason I went with a C6. C5s are even cheaper. 500hp+ for ~$25k, I could buy and rebuild my entire car from engine to diff for less than a lightly used GT Mustang.

Farley Says Ford Couldn't Compete With Toyota And Hyundai, So It Stopped Trying

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Sounds like they're trying the Harley Davidson route

SEMA Is Fighting To Save America's Local Race Tracks

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Love when "locals" close down tracks and then have the audacity to complain about street racing in their area afterwards.

Can Americans learn to love tiny, cheap kei cars?

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We already have them all over Florida.

What’s the Average Car Payment Per Month?

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I hope it gets to $1000/mo 😂 Higher! HIGHERRR!

Report: White House to propose less stringent fuel economy standards

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We already couldn't accommodate for the infrastructure before AI, how do you figure we're going to do it with such a huge amount of our power bandwidth allotted towards that now?

Early driving review of the new Honda Prelude seems to be positive

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My 80s Corolla had a better stock 0-60 time than this, it's pretty pathetic nowadays.

A Year With High-Performance Suspension on My Daily Driver: What I Learned

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I installed 6kg front and 4.7kg rear in mine with some nice dampers, most people who've driven it have been very very surprised how compliant it is.

Ford CEO Says His Daughter's Boyfriend Ruined an F-150 With a Junk Tune

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Uh, no. Turbos are exhaust gas driven, superchargers are belt driven.

Hyundai Motor to invest $55bn, increase US production by 2030; S.Korean automaker aims to produce 80% of its cars sold in America locally

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As someone who's worked in the industry a few decades, times have definitely changed.

More drivers hang up auto insurance despite risky legal issues

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Transfer assets to a trusted family source to get around that issue

More drivers hang up auto insurance despite risky legal issues

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A pair of headlight assemblies cost as much as my daily, smh.

More drivers hang up auto insurance despite risky legal issues

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I just did a motorcycle carburetor bank rebuild on a Kawasaki 4cyl, if I would have went with OEM parts for the rebuild I would have easily spent at least a grand and that's not even replacing the floats / needles

More drivers hang up auto insurance despite risky legal issues

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Totally understandable, but also easily navigable to set up a minimal risk/loss situation.

More drivers hang up auto insurance despite risky legal issues

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When registration time rolls around I pop for a month of the cheapest insurance I can find.

More drivers hang up auto insurance despite risky legal issues

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No they don't. I've been driving without insurance for years, whenever I get pulled over I get a hefty fine for not having it, usually around $800-$1000. What they don't get is that even with the fines I've saved over $10000 within a few years. I've never been responsible for an accident and just use the saved cash for repairs if need be.

What’s the most unexpectedly fuel efficient car you’ve ever had?

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I used to be a service writer for Subaru, called em Japanese BMWs. The pile of engines in the shop corner never deterred a potential customer, that's for sure.

What’s the most unexpectedly fuel efficient car you’ve ever had?

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Yeah, my built up C6 gets around 27mpg cruising @ 75mph. They're not nearly as bad as people think, if anything they get better mileage than the tuned JDM stuff I've previously had.

Tree of Lies

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Yeah, so you buy more of them. Which is the point

Tree of Lies

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Quit buying it then

Tree of Lies

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A company trying to sell you more of their shit, what a concept

What’s pretty much identical in cheap small cars vs. big luxury cars?

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I ride mopeds specifically so everyone knows how gargantuan my wiener is. Hey, I don't make the rules

Are these the fastest cars (and bikes) ever built for every number of cylinders?

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Maico 700 is the highest HP single cylinder. Two stroke power baybee!

You guys really want these trucks. 85% of truck buyers finance for 7 years or more.

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Bought a 20k mile 6-Speed Vette for less than the cost of a new Corolla in 2019. Three years of sub $400 payments until it was paid off, definitely laughing at anyone taking out 7 year loans on any vehicle.

You guys really want these trucks. 85% of truck buyers finance for 7 years or more.

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Gotta lock themselves into a shit payment to impress the br0s

Why doesn't the PDK have a "DSG fart"

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This is why smoking a GT3RS is that much more satisfying compared to some other cars

General question Wednesday: Ask your general car-related question and maybe someone will have an answer.

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Bought a piece of shit car and then the factory service manual for it. Read that instead of my phone when I was taking a shit.

Leno's Law has Passed the CA Senate [In some form]

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Or Florida, Washington... Hell, there are even counties in CA that only require a one time smog test upon registration to an address in the county.

What is the old car exhaust smell?

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Str8 hydrocarbons baybee