Author: Northcoast300h

Question about Toyota’s free new car! (no joke). How can Mopar compete with that?

This week, Toyota lowered the price of its Toyota Mirai by $40,000. From $52,000 to $12,000. Toyota also gives a $15,000 hydrogen fuel card, so car is technically free.

Problems are
1) It runs on Hydrogen.
2) Some Hydrogen fuel stations are closing.
3) There’s few Mirai’s remaining for sale.
4) Hydrogen is about twice as expensive than gasoline.
4) Who the heck knows how to work on these things?

I don’t travel far and my city has 3 hydrogen stations so should I buy one? Car does…

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Insurance rates skyrocket. What are you paying?

1970 Chrysler 300 Hurst – $270 per yr. Full insurance but 4 mo in storage. (in 2022, I was only paying $180).
2013 Lincoln – $430 per yr. Full ins (2021 – $320)

I’m not complaining since I live in a cheap city but I feel bad for others. Other than…

Is anyone else depressed looking at new vehicles?

Maybe its just me? I’ve been looking for a new car. I feel new cars are more dangerous (due to all the distractions built in), more work to operate and makes everyone’s life slower. I know modern cars have much better suspensions, frames, rust pre…

Did French owned Mopar come up with a silly idea? 2025 Ramcharger

Mopar approved manufacturing, available September 2024. Nice looking electric truck but it still has its 3.6L engine. It’s not a hybrid. The engine is not connected to the drivetrain, meaning the engine is just a really big generator….huh?…why?

Sorry to say, EV sales seem to have peaked. Are EV’s just a niche vehicle?

About 20yrs ago, I had great hopes for EV technology knowing speeds would be incredibly fast but I’ve been waiting for mfrs to clear out the many problems EV’s have. I thought by now EV’s would better in every way but just like Elon is finding out, I…

Show me your raised whites!….please

After 22yrs, I guess its time to get another set…but Kelly discontinued these. There’s still plenty of tread since I put less than 1000 miles on every year and its garage kept. No cracks that I can see front or back. Great tires. Maybe I should k…

I’d rather have the 2 million dollars.

It would be nice to still see old cars cruising around our neighborhoods, but Mecum and others have ruined it driving prices thru the roof hyping up these slow, horribly assembled, dangerous rust buckets to millionaires that don’t even know how an engi…