Is 15 or so miles-per-gallon more worth paying $3,900 more? It depends. Right now, the $3,900 more you know you’ll pay to buy the hybrid version of the Elantra, which goes about 15 miles farther overall on a gallon of gas than the non-hybrid Elantra, must be juxtaposed against the right-now cost of gas, which […]
Countering the Safe Streets/Vision Zero Mindset
October 7, 2022 • 0 Comments • DUI, ITE, NHTSA, NMA, road safety, Safe Streets, Speed Limits, SPEEDING, Traffic Fatalities, VISION ZERO, VMT
By Gary Biller, NMA President Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared in June 2022 as E-Newsletter #699. If you would like to subscribe to the NMA’s weekly one-topic newsletter, click here. Recently, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) issued its estimate of 2021 U.S. traffic fatalities. A Reuters headline blared, “U.S. traffic fatalities surge 10.5% in […]
Soaring electricity bills are Crushing Budgets
By Lauren Fix, The Car Coach The electricity price increase of 15.8 percent is the highest since August 1981. This is just in one year, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Natural gas bills, which crept back up last month after dipping in July, surged 33 percent from the same month last year, […]
Charge It Takes on a Whole New Meaning
When your customers cannot afford what you’re selling, you finance it. Literally, sell them the item, the interest, plus a bill of goods. This is Cadillac’s new business model for selling its soon-to-here array of electric vehicles, beginning next year with the 2023 (and $59,990 to start) Lyric. It’s a ride that not many can afford to buy, which […]
If “Safety” Really Mattered: NMA E-Newsletter #716
By guest writer Eric Peters In several objective ways, new cars are less “safe” than cars built decades ago. A strong statement. One that probably seems ridiculous, too, given all the “safety” features new cars have that old cars did not, and the fact that new vehicles must pass a battery of crash tests before […]
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