Tag: CAFE

How a Trump vs Biden Win Could Impact the Cost of New Cars in 2024

By Lauren Fix The 2024 United States Presidential Election is still months away, but the current front runners are former President Donald Trump for the Republican party nomination and President Joe Biden for the Democratic party nomination. If Election Day turns out to be a Biden-Trump race, and if Trump secures a win, many Americans […]

Why Car Prices Are Going to Go Up HUGE

By Lauren Fix The Alliance for Automotive Innovation, a lobbying group in the U.S. that represents most major automakers, is once again criticizing the Biden Administration’s proposal to boost fuel economy standards. NHTSA is proposing to increase requirements at a rate of 2% per year for passenger cars and 4% per year for trucks and […]

A Six-Speed Manual Transmission–If You Can Find One

Subaru sent me another 2021 Crosstrek to drive this week because the car I was supposed to get became indisposed. I’ve already reviewed this little Soobie (here), so this article will focus on one aspect of the Crosstrek, which isn’t really about the Crosstrek, per se. It’s about what it’s available with and what it’s not. That […]

The Last Manual Car

It is likely that within eight years and maybe sooner, it will be impossible to find a new car with a third pedal. It is already very hard. Only a small handful of vehicles even offer them anymore–one of the few being the 2022 Mini Cooper S hardtop I’ve been test driving recently. It has been months […]

Heterogeneous Cars

As the dreary trend toward the Universal Transportation Appliance or the crossover SUV will soon to be rendered even more drearily homogenous via electrification. It waxes, but it might be worthwhile to look at what wanes in the rearview and recall some of the heterogeneous cars that were once available. The Pillarless Hardtop Try to visualize a […]

Is This the Beginning of the End?—Readers Respond: NMA E-Newsletter #639

Editor’s Note: We received over 35 responses to last week’s Is This the Beginning of the End? NMA E-Newsletter #638. No matter what side of the divide our readers fall, they certainly have many different opinions about electric vehicles. Two things come to mind: the change from horse-drawn power to cars starting around 1900 and […]

5 Car Trends You Need to Know in 2021

By Lauren Fix, The Car Coach The automotive industry faced some unique circumstances in 2020. Car dealerships and automobile factories quickly faced new selling strategies amid government-mandated shutdowns. What changes and trends can we expect in the automotive industry?  What do leading automotive experts think about the biggest trends to impact car brands, dealerships, and […]

Are Electric Trucks Better than Gas and Diesel?

By Lauren Fix, The Car Coach Electric Trucks are coming on the market in 2021—are you ready? What are the pros and cons of electric trucks versus gas and diesel trucks? Here is our list. The Pros of Driving an Electric Truck Reduced Emissions Clean air and global warming have become a sizzling political issue. […]

Stop-Start Shuffle

In the 1970s, cars would sometimes stall out in traffic but not on purpose. You’d push on the gas, but the car wouldn’t go. Horn honking frustration would ensue as the driver of the conked out car tried to get it going again. Today, undoing decades of refinement, cars conk out on purpose at every red light […]