With cheaper gas, the guzzler is making a comeback

Locutus

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Amazing what the populace actually wants:

With cheaper gas, the guzzler is making a comeback
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Full-sized pickup trucks represented 18.5 per cent of Canadian vehicle sales in March, compared with the long-time average of about 15 per cent. Sales of the F-Series pickup by Ford Motor Co. of Canada Ltd. were the highest of any month in the company's history in March. More than half the buyers of Ford vehicles in Canada last month bought an F-Series.

Sales of subcompact cars have hit the skids. They fell 16 per cent in the first two months of 2016 from year-earlier levels.
Sales of fuel-sipping hybrid vehicles have fallen by 8,000 units in the past three years, Mr. DesRosiers [DesRosiers Automotive Consultants Inc.] said, and Canadians buy about 3,000 electric vehicles a year in an overall market that hit 1.89 million vehicles last year.

The infatuation governments have for electric vehicles and hybrids is "highly misplaced," he said...
Shiny pony and Leap Manifesters noticing? Time for a serious government crackdown on the people's will? And boy that middle class sure is feeling the pain:


Canadian auto sales off to 'dream start' through March


What is to be done?

When you are a trust fund baby genetically famous, unproductive, vacuous, and the Prime Ministerial puppet of a green zealot, it's hard to relate to people who have actual job skills and choose Pick-ups as the preferred form of transportation. I suspect that the Spawn will do his Butt's-approved damnedest to change all of that.

Green This
 

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It's about time. I'd like to get a 1973 Buick Riviera. I've always wanted one. Until then, I'll continue to drive my F150.
 

JamesBondo

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I take special note of any hybrid driving mouth piece that judges me for owning a truck. Eventually they ask me to move a couch for them, and I tell them to f#$k off.
 

petros

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3 days of F150 sales equals all EV and hybrid sales for an entire year.

I love my F150 and have grown fond of my Ranger 4X4.

The F150 gets 7 more MPG than the Ranger.
 

Curious Cdn

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3 days of F150 sales equals all EV and hybrid sales for an entire year.

I love my F150 and have grown fond of my Ranger 4X4.

The F150 gets 7 more MPG than the Ranger.

It's certainly a lot of vehicle for the money. They used to build them here in Oakville but they converted the truck line to producing other vehicles.
 

petros

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Dearborn now for the F150 and the Ranger was Kansas City.

Canadian labour and operation costs got too high.
 

JamesBondo

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on a side note, I'd like to see the eco dudes define 'guzzler' every once in a while.

Because the fuel economy of a small car sucks if it was expected to make the dozens of trips to the forest to get the same load of firewood that I get with my truck in just one trip.

fuel economy is application specific.

If you feel that your dedicated commuter car can be compared to my workmachine, I think you ignoring the fact that the motivating reasons for owning a vehicle can be distinctly different for different people.
 

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No you couldn't and why would you want it?

Well, for starters, it's a helluva lot more convenient to be able to toodle on down to the corner gas station to fill up my jet as opposed to always having to go to the airport.... And they don't sell snacks and lotto at the airport filling stations.

Damned inconvenient I say