Posted on 12/23/2022 6:14:39 AM PST by Carriage Hill
It is the end of the road for mainstream rear-wheel-drive, four-door internal combustion engine cars. Kia has announced it will end production of the Stinger next year and is sending it out with a run of 1,000 Tribute Edition cars, with 400 earmarked for the U.S. It will be joined in the history books with the Dodge Charger, which is being replaced in 2024 by the all-electric Daytona Charger SRT coupe. Ford, Chevrolet and the non-luxury Japanese brands all stopped selling this type of car years ago as they transitioned to front-wheel-drive and SUV-focused lineups.
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Millions and millions! LOL.
When the Jeep dealership dropped the price from $102k to $90k, I grabbed it. They needed to move it, and I drooled over it, after the ‘test drive’, which was breathtaking.
I traded in my 2003 Escape with a V6 for a 2008 Mercury Mariner Hybrid. Leather seats with seat heat. In-dash navigation. Sirius/XM radio. Nicer than a base Escape. Ford promised 32 MPG and a $3,000 tax rebate. Reality? A $1200 tax rebate. Winter mileage where heat is require (-15F to +32F) was 21 MPG. Summer mileage where AC is needed (86F to 103F) was 26 MPG. About 3 weeks in Spring/Fall are mild enough (73F) to ditch heat and AC and run in "ECO" mode. That yields 28 MPG unless driving downhill with a tailwind where 32 MPG happened ONE DAY in six years of ownership. The goofy electrical system that comes with a hybrid meant I never even tried to install my ham radio gear in the vehicle. The towing capacity was much reduced compared to the 2003 V6 Escape. The cruise control did scary shit in the mountains. I had to disengage it leaving West Yellowstone for Idaho. The ICE was nearing red line RPMs climbing to the summit between MT and ID.
We traded the Mariner for a 2015 F150 Crew Cab with EcoBoost V6. The EcoBoost gets better mileage than the Mariner every did. We've played the hybrid game. Once is enough.
Good luck finding gasoline in the future......THAT competition is being eliminated to force you to buy the EV's.
Very nice. Enjoy.
I’ll stick with my poor man’s 2018 Wrangler limited sport S.......I love it though. 👍
Given the tone of this article, I guess my 2004 Chevy Silverado is already extinct. It even has low miles; 139216. Runs like a top!
1999 F150 SuperCab 5.4L V8. Under 64,000 miles. Runs fine when I need it.
Good luck finding gasoline in the future......THAT competition is being eliminated to force you to buy the EV's.
Just imagine this cold snap when we are all forced in to electric cars in ten years. Can’t charge the batteries because it is too cold. Anyone who has to park outside or on the street is stuck. Even cars that may be in a heated garage can’t drive because the heat for defrost and to warm the batteries sucks up most of the energy. People desperate to plug in their cars will shut down the grid. Oh. bit thanks to the “investments” of our commie government we will all live in “15 minute” cities and can just ride out bikes to go about our business.”
I like it. I think mainly bc my first car was a Land Rover defender that the Brits (or somebody, maybe Egyptians) abandoned on our farm.
Still runs fine, daily rural driver, and it’s got to be 70 years old.
With these types of import vehicles it’s all about maintenance costs......we love our 328i but dadgum........we just replaced the battery and it was right around $326 for parts and labor.
Also I’ve alwbeen leary about new vehicle models that have been on the market less than 5 years.
Remember when production of convertibles ended?
And then one day they came back.
Check back in 10 years and see what happens.
Oh wait! Won’t the earth be all frozen over and all of us be dead by then?
I will tell you why: UGLY. And the early ones were just so slow from a standing start.
I did a little research, the Grenadier is coming to the USA and will use a really generic BMW engine that is used is basically every third world country with a ton of cheap parts.
With coil over shocks and super basic, but industrial, bottom side.
I expect it to break very little and be easy to fix.
Kind of the polar opposite of a super fun, but high maintenance, Euro machine.
Something that can be fixed on the fly in the middle of Mexico or Africa. Or rural USA.
The thing is, EV’s don’t really reduce pollution. What they do is reduce local pollution. That is, they are not much better than ICE vehicles, but a lot of the pollution is generated at the power source. I’ve said for years that the EV’s in my state should have a bumper sticker that says, “Powered by coal”.
And CO2 is a GOOD gas, so it’s not even in the pollution equation. We could use more of it.
Explained here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJv1IPNZQao
Before the 2019, I had a silver 2002 GC ‘Laredo’ with 395k miles, primarily for my Nursery/Garden Ctr/ LSCP contracting business operation, and decided it was time to treat myself to something fun, after all the medical hell I went thru in 2017 & 2018. I’m stable now, and back to enjoying life.
Good observation.
There’ll always be gas available. Just a matter whether one can afford $25+/gal.
Stay in touch, all right?
to accomplish their push to all electric means they’ll have to ban gas stations
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