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Summer blend gas has more energy in it than winter blend and should give better mileage. On my BMW I get worse gas mileage in the summer by 1-2 mpg because of the A/C. Doesn’t the AC run off the hybrid battery pack on our Mav’s.

Ford service department will be checking it out.

I’ve actually had to present this manufacturing argument to the Federal Trade Commission. I was President of Shakespeare Fishing Tackle and for many years we made the “Ugly Stik” in the US. We transitioned the finishing, painting, windings and guides to China but still made the blank in the US...

I’m going to take a wild guess and say they are doing the cost analysis on extending warranties to 8 years and 100K miles. BMW’s with a 4 cylinder N20 engine from 2014 and before had a plastic timing chain guard. If the guard cracked and broke your engine was toast if you didn’t catch it in...

Pintos blew up in the back , ours blow up in the front so we will at least know our time is up.

If mine catches fire I will pull over, put leaves, branches and gas on it because I sure as hell won’t want the same one back after it caught on fire. Burn baby burn.

2024 year, 2025 model. Tacoma intro 2023 for 2024 model. Kind of funny someone said the RAV4 doesn’t sell and its the No.1 selling vehicle SUV/car in the USA, 399,000 units last year. Pretty sure they could make it into a Maverick competitor since Ford simple converted an Escape.

The Toyota Maverick competitor comes in 2024, Toyota Stout. AWD hybrid and also gas only option, unibody. The day its official I will place an order and I love my hybrid Maverick. My son needs a truck since he totaled his Tacoma so we bought a Civic due to markups on used Tacomas. The Civic at...

We don’t need Scout in South Carolina we have the biggest US vehicle exporter in the US (BMW) in Spartanburg.

I’ve only had the deep sleep message in the 4 day cold spell around Christmas when it got down in the low to mid teens at night and we didn’t drive for two days. It went away when it warmed up and we started driving again but two to three days of no driving should not impact any vehicle or its a...

The information posted about new car inventory is way off, 1.64million at the end of Nov 22 and 3.55 million at the end of Nov 19 (pre pandemic). A quick calculation says its less than 50% of pre pandemic level.

What hp is that Mercury? My son has the 16’ Bass Tracker that needs a new motor, his 2010 30hp Mercury is destroyed. He only drives about 6-7 miles to the lake and river and was questioning if my hybrid is up to it. I thought with trailer and 30 hp dry it was about 2,000 lbs.

The base engine on the 2024 Tacoma will be the same as the 2023 Highlander, 2.4 liter turbo. Highlander gets combined 25mpg front wheel drive 24 all wheel drive. So basically it weighs the same as the Highlander but you can assume 22 city /29 hwy with a new 8 speed transmission. My son totaled...

Looks like it will buff out.

The only car/truck/ suv I will never buy is a Chinese product. Volvo is owned by a Chinese communist company. Your money goes to support them no matter where its produced. The question for me is then is it better to buy from an American company that produces outside the US or a free market...

East St. Louis is where the Griswold Family Truckster got its wheels stolen in Family Vacation with Chevy Chase.

No. We have 100 years worth of oil we are sitting on and no plan on how to generate the electricity to switch everything over. China and India produce 75% of the worlds carbon and are burning coal. Solar and wind will never produce enough power for our country, nuclear and hydrogen probably are...

I grew up in the 50’s, no seat belts on any cars. The best defense was a good offense, my family drove a Buick Electra 225 which was like a small aircraft carrier.

I wouldn’t buy a vehicle without one and have 18 since 1995 ( a couple were convertibles so they don’t count). I vent it when its parked to keep it cooler, when the weather gets between 70-50 degrees use it every day driving mostly in the vent position but fully open below 50 miles an hour...

They share a call center with Directv and AT&T.