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Really? The average age of vehicles on American roads in the last several years has hovered around the eleven year mark. So you are saying that these things will never achieve average age? Because who is going to pay to keep these things going after 8 years, with this kind of failure rate? What a colossal waste of money. lol that's not what I said at all. If the average age is 11 years then it will be fixed and good to go within that 11 year period, not on the customer's dime.

Pics. Pics or its 100% fake. If anything with China's displacement tax I would have thought they would have gotten the 4 cylinders before us.

It's covered under its 8year warranty. Not as big of a deal as the title leads to believe, IMO.

Hahaha that was awesome!

It is true, I was actually taught to do this on turbo'd vehicle when I worked in a shop(and when the filter wasn't horizontal). It is supposed to keep the engine from a dry moment the first few seconds after an oil change. This and filters with a silicone anti-drain back valve will help on a daily basis. I've done it ever since I heard about it on vehicles that I've owned that have a vertical filter. If the filter is horizontal I wouldn't even attempt to fill it up and put it on. That's an inevitable oil mess. I do it because it can't hurt even if it isn't true.

In that amount of time there will probably be some tricky engine/powertrain configurations. I could see 2 and 3 cylinder engines being the norm in small cars, hybrids of course as well. I feel the displacement tax is an inevitable thing, just give it enough time... Personally, I think HD trucks should also get a lose/minimal requirements. I don't think they should be just free range on power and aero..just because..

That's some good new to hear about that gen Ions. My sister actually has an 07 as well with around 160k and I believe the only problem she's ever had was accident induced, some front suspension pieces replaced. I think powertrain-wise it's been bulletproof, hers is a manual. She bought it new in 07 and has driven the wheels off of it ever since.

Me too... Me three. I actually love my bike but it's just tough to find the time to go and in my area you have to drive a little to find good triails. I have a Giant Talon 2 29er. After looking on their website they only have 1 Talon 29er now. Ya know what, maybe this weekend after the oil change I'll throw the bike in the hatch and go find some trails.

Glad we got to feel your thought process on how you established your opinion. lol

Oh yeah, I'm currently at 4145 miles on the current oil change.. I almost hope I have to drive around this week just so I don't feel as bad wasting the oil when I hopefully change it this weekend. This weather is just too damn good for this time of year. I woke up at 615 this morning and it was 44degrees out and the high is in the low 60's. IN DECEMBER!

Absolutely. Teslas or nothing. You got it. You can honestly tell me that most drivers of Teslas even thought of a different vehicle instead of their Tesla? That's the kind of car that people either want or don't want it. There is no shopping around. People get in their minds that they want a Tesla and will buy one before even driving one. Prius is also a status symbol now, It's still selling quite well for the absurd cost for such a small vehicle. Viper is a terrible example as HAS COMPETITION and it is WORSE than its competition in everything other than strictly performance, interior, ride, overall handling package, manual only. Z06 does all of those better, just one example. Tesla as NO COMPETITION and the closest thing to a direct competitior will be out in another 5 years over at Porche.

Then maybe they should make something comparable to actually take business from Tesla. As of now.. It seems like pissing money away just for "pride", "home turf", "because they can". It isn't "Competition is competition" if you don't have anything that actually is cross shopped a Tesla.

And so are the D3 in trying to keep a company our of "their state" when they don't even have anything to compete with Tesla. To me, that says they're scared of Tesla. Why else pay millions upon millions to lobby to keep a company out of your state which you don't even compate with. Is somebody buying a Tesla going to turn down an F150 Platinum or Navigator(closest things price-wise to compete with a Model S). I could see GM a little more scared for reason because they have the new CT6 which will be right in the price range of the Model S. But other than that, they don't even compete with eachother so why does GM/Ford/FCA( I don't actually know other than GM because I heard they are "leading the efforts") even care about Tesla?

Believe it or not, my local Kia dealership used plain old Quakerstate/Pennzoil products in their cars/trucks. Also why you can get an oil change for 14.95 I guess I am sure you could, but you would be changing it much more..... Any place that advertises oil changes south of $20 usually has additional fees like disposal of old oil which most just include in their prices.

Yes and no. They may require a synthetic oil but going by the oil life monitor on probably any new car will yield 7500-12000miles depending on your driving. So while the oil changes will cost 2-3 times more(not so much if you do it yourself) but it will last you 2-4 times as long as the old 3000 mile intervals. So while it may cost roughly the same over 10k miles you won't have the trouble of doing the oil change and time that goes with it. I mean you could always get Mobil 1 Extended Performance(~27$) which guarantees you 15,000 miles of protection and a Fram Ultra filter(~9$) and they both guarantee 15,000 miles. $36 before tax for what used to be 5 oil changes is fan-freakin-tastic. Now that's doing it yourself.. I've seen synthetic oil changes are quick lube places costing anywhere from 55-90 dollars and I'm pretty certain those are still a cheapo filter so you'd have to bring in your own filter and most will at least credit you their filter back but that's only like $2-3 back on top of your $9 filter. So about $60-95 if you took your car somewhere. This is also for the standard 5qts. Obviously if your car takes more it'll cost a little more.

Hahaha hooooooly buckets! They much have hooned like none other! It was probably fun as hell just tearing up an economy car like that lol.

I completely agree! That's actually why I don't like any comparison to test review mpg because there is no way all vehicles just get junk mileage. The only one I trust is MT's Real MPG because that is an actual test itself of combined driving conditions and a set test loop so at least they are comparable to eachother. But it is still a good point that a boosted engine under load will use more fuel than a n/a engine.. at least from your observations. Regardless, It got poor test mileage like EcoBoosts get poor test mileage... That was all my joke was about. I drive an EcoBoost and if I drive agressively..I get junk economy. If I drive conservatively..I get exceptional economy. And anywhere in the middle.

When I initially saw this thing months ago my first instinct was that it was hideous and I had no clue why they did what they did with it. The more I look at it the more I like it. I actually don't think it looks too bad anymore. The long sloped almost "coupe-like" looks pretty dang good, albeit at a price of visibility. Not sure if that is a great sacrifice in this segment or not but it does looks sharp. It appears that it has a case of the "EcoBoosts". lol 20mpg tested, 22/32 rated. "Our test average of 20 mpg proves the rule that a small turbo in a big car burns gas fast." The weight is, yet again, another high point for another new GM. Very light for being one of the longest/largest in the segment. 3300lbs and this was a 2.0T " absolutely loaded Premier"

The three-box Chevy sedan arrived with the new-for-1949 Chevrolets, which grew proper trunks that were flattened and pulled out from the old bustle-back Fleetlines and Master Deluxes of the streamliner era. How many of us saw Dad off to work in a Biscayne or a Bel Air, or remember the mall lots clogged with Novas and Caprices? The Chevy sedan was everyman’s car, the car you drove if you cared more about value than flash. Malibus were once everywhere, even in Malibu, but the Japanese long ago moved the bull’s-eye for high-value ­conformity, and Chevrolet has struggled to hit it. Too big, too small, too boring, too unreliable; the mid-size Chevy sedan devolved into a car you would rent but never buy. Well, here is GM’s latest attempt to reverse the Malibu’s typecasting. As with the new Chrysler 200, the 2016 Malibu attempts to strum the heartstrings with modern, swept styling. Look at its new shoulders and those tendon lines on the body sides. Muscle and sinew emerge as the light plays in interesting ways. The headlights squint menacingly, like a thug, or like a Camaro. Also like a Camaro (and all the new Cadillacs and Buicks), the Malibu’s beltline is hiked way up to make the roof seem low, leaving narrow daggers for side glass. GM never tires of that bunker-top styling, no matter what it costs in visibility. ... The rest of the review @http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/2016-chevrolet-malibu-20t-test-review

Yeah the whole Dexos crap is BS but if you buy a GM you don't really have a choice. That is why some high end oils don't have the "spec" because they simply don't want to pay for the "spec" even though their stuff surpasses it by miles. I believe Amsoil is one example, I think Royal purple is another one.

Welllllll Before I bought my blue Mach 1 that I have pictures of on here, and I've since sold, I found an orange one up in Iowa on Auto Trader. I went back and forth talking to the dealer about EVERYTHING about the car because that was about a 5 hour drive for me. But the price was great and it was stock,so he told me, and it had pretty low miles for the year, I think it was about 52k miles. Well, I couldn't reiterate more how I wanted pictures of every little detail on the car. I wanted any picture of a scratch and I wanted to make sure it was bone stock. I didn't want to buy a mustang with aftermarket parts assuming the pervious owner would have driven the piss out of it. So, after about two weeks of talking, emailing, and texting I made the trip on a day off of work. I planned to trade in my C350. Well I left at like 5am and got there around 10-1030 and he did have it all cleaned up for me but there were rock chips like you wouldn't believe all over the damn car. I didn't know you could even get rock chips on the rear deck lid and rear C-pillars. They were everywhere. Okay, not too happy about that but if the rest was still good I may have bitten because of how far I drove. It was initially inside and he started it to take it outside and it did not have factory exhaust. I got on the ground and looked.. aftermarket/offroad X-pipe. It didn't bother me an incredible amout because I planned to do that exact thing on my own anyway but the point of me asking all of those questions and asking for any picture of any sctatch or ding was to prevent that. I was so pissed because it really wasn't what he described and portrayed to me. Well, I drove back home in my C350 and pissed off about how $h!ty the dealer was. Then of course as I was thinking it over he continued to try and pressure me saying that I don't want to regret driving all the way here and not taking it back. One other time a buddy and I were driving home from the mall and we saw a newer gen GTO on the corner of a used lot. We stopped and checked it out and of course a guy walked up to us. We instantly lost interest because it was an automatic and we told the guy that we weren't interested because it wasn't either of us wanted. He tried to sell us that the automatic was better because we can, and I quote, " you can drive and grab titties with the automatic". I will never forget that. Just because we were young(probably 19-20 at the time) he tried to sell us a car like that. I couldn't believe that tactic. Mostly because I know he wouldn't have tried to say that to an older guy but he did because we were young.

Ohhhh lol thanks. I'm on my phone so it's like a 1x1 pic unless I click on it. (iPhone 6) I had no clue it even had writing on it.

Happy Birthday Mr Viper!

Yeah, what blu said. Color blending is key. Blu, you can tell his insurance company by a picture of the car?!?!

I get my panties ruffled because of how crummy salesmen can be and pressure ignorant buyers into things that DO make them money such as the extended warranties, glass protection, winshield wiper fluid refills(exaggerating) but those are where a buyer will get pressured even more because that is where they make the most money off of a new car. That is also where a buyer will get the most ripped off. I had a guy I worked with who was not a car guy by any means and the Chevy dealer told him it would cost 10k to replace his wheels on his Malibu had he hit a pothole or whatnot and bent/cracked/dented his wheels. It is a 2012 Malibu. 10k my ass. I just told him that whoever sold that "protection" plan ripped him off. Of course he got that plan because he was scared if something happened he wouldn't be able to afford to fix it...because he was told it would cost an absurd amount to replace. My point is that not having to ever deal with a salesman trying to con me into something..would be nice.. Or somehow change the way they make money somehow to get an honest worker. Or just get honest employees.