(DCNF)—U.S. automakers are celebrating their ability to continue selling gas-powered vehicles after President Donald Trump rolled back electric vehicle (EV) mandates.
Trump signed three new bills into law in June, which terminated Biden-era rules that allowed states like California to impose a national EV mandate. These rollbacks have caused companies like Ford and General Motors to scale back their EV plans and search to leverage demand for their big SUVs and commercial vehicles, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported.
“This is a multibillion-dollar opportunity over the next couple of years,” Ford Motor Chief Executive Jim Farley said last week in a call to analysts. more
Good, now start making those great big cars we used to. GM can start with the new Impala they keep talking about. I’m tired of trucks and SUVs being the only big vehicles on the road.
American auto Manufacturers need to start building vehicles to a quality standard of Japan’s Toyota. To accomplish this American auto manufacturers will have to have a major change in paradigm and by this I this I mean lose the accountant mentality and fill management ranks with “Car Guys”.
The crap they are selling Americans is not going to compete or Survive in the MAGA econmy.
How many billions have they been losing yearly by embracing EV’s that few people want?
I sure hope they bring back the muscle cars
Different Tim – They?
How about We. They were subsidized with taxpayer dollars.
When I say “We” I mean everybody, taxpayers and manufacturers, took it in the ass thanks to the Left!
I had a 1980 Buick Electra. This thing went for over 6,000 pounds, was a 2 door with doors heavier than some modern cars, and the front and back bumpers were so far apart would need different ZIP codes if it were a building instead of an auto. Anything that happened outside the car was so far away it was like it was in a different country, and no one would get past the chrome bumpers anyway. This mass of metal was pushed by a 350 engine breathing through a Rochester 4bbl and blowing out a dual exhaust, rode like a cruise ship in a calm sea with all that weight, and once it was moving forwards its momemtum made it seem inevitable. That engine could push it very quickly to well over 85 mph (where its speedometer, but not its speed, topped out) despite the fact there was room for a family of 4 in the trunk alone, and all their neighbors in the cabin and STILL not crowding you on the front bench seat.
It was quick enough off the line that I put a light bar on the roof and used it to go Code 3 to the firehouse, and intimidating enough that people actually got out of my way. In an era when the cops were using Chevy Caprices and Ford Crown Vics I was mistaken for a police more than once, most memorably by a guy at my day job when I was taking my lunch in the car around Christmas and he came over to berate me for not doing something about the traffic until I pointed out that my lights were red, my car was old, I had no badge and my uniform said SEARS, but for all that this car was still PLUSH inside with a big back seat commodious enough to use as an emergency hotel bed for sleeping and, uh, “other things”.
…If they make THAT again, i will dump my tiny turbo 4 door “sedan” in a New York minute, 4WD and all, even though the RWD in my original took me for a few wintertime spins, but thats a different subject for another day…
I’d love to see Tesla come out with a hypbrid gas car. I’d probably be the best car on the market.
The only cars that the US automakers put out these days are Cadillacs. Well, except for Corvettes or Mustangs. Everything else is trucks or SUVs.
Now get rid of all the computer and driver assist crap.
^^^^
I haven’t forgotten how they screwed us during the “Black Shit Stain” years.
Txn4Evr THURSDAY, 7 AUGUST 2025, 12:21 AT 12:21 PM
I never understood why Caterpillar could build tractors that were worked to death and lasted 30 years but Detroit made junk that conked out at 60k miles. If CAT could build quality so could the big 3. They didn’t want to.
janitor
Thursday, 7 August 2025, 13:48 at 1:48 pm
“Now get rid of all the computer and driver assist crap.”
…that Electra I describe above had a MECHANICAL cruise control. Damndest thing. It had the speedo cable pass through it and mechanical flyweights that would raise and lower with the centrifugal force from the cable turning them, with the button press only activating a solenoid to track the weight position and operate a vacuum diaphragm connected to the throttle on the carburator to pull and push to keep the weight position consistent.
The only real electronics was the HEI distributor which was kinda a new thing then. Apart from that, the car could shrug off an EMP.
We had a 1989 Oldsmobile 88 Royale with 264,000 miles and the FE3 suspension on it. The 3800 Cu.In. Vortex engine had flat bosses where nitro ports would go.
We only had two problems, salty roads rotted out the front sway bar and we had a gummed up thermostat. This fantastic car was the best we ever purchased outside of windshield wiper blades and oil changes. So sad the Morons at GM sh!tcanned Oldsmobile. I think we would still be driving it if you we were able to buy parts for it..
@Txn4Evr THURSDAY, 7 AUGUST 2025, 12:21 AT 12:21 PM
So glad the Caterpillars were solid. Worked for Cat for 35 years.
Still can buy new or refurbished parts for my D4
The last new “boat” we owned was a 1977 Pontiac Bonneville, two-toned four door with all the trimmings. Not as heavy as the Electra described by SNS, but still a whale of a car…and amazing for road trips. We had it for 10 years. I would have kept it, but we had one car too many. I sold it to a neighbor for her nanny to use shuttling her kids around. A very safe car hauling kids.
Remember the 1970 Buick GS. Those things came with a 455. They were turning high 12 second quarters box stock. A buddy of mine had one. What a tank.
Dumb Bunnies
Thursday, 7 August 2025, 15:04 at 3:04 pm
“We had a 1989 Oldsmobile 88 Royale…”
…the car I had before the Electra was a ’73 Olds Cutlass Supreme I got very used that had also been sideswiped by a semi for $500 in 1984ish dollars. This thing was jacked up on air shocks so it could accomodate the 50s on Keystones behind it that kept it almost standing on its nose. This was also a 350 4bbl dual exhaust, but none of that faggy emissions control stuff on it. It was like an ugly gal thats good in bed, nothing to look at but could really SCOOT. I added a puckered LF that I eventually put a silver fender on my red car because thats all I could budget for.
Thing needed its own gas pump, but was mostly built like a tank except for the plastic steering wheel I split with my forehead in the same accident I puckered the fender in.
It and my Buick both had the characteristic bad cooling system that GM at the time was good for, but were otherwise pretty bulletproof. Only reason I lost THAT car was because I did an experiment to see if I could drive from Lexington to Cincinnati at highway + speeds and basically no coolant in it without it locking up and bursting into flames (turns out it did exactly that, go fig).
I would have either one of those cars over any of the shiny plastic and 4 gussied up cylinders I have had to roll with since. I was able to fix my Olds with a $25 trip to a junkyard after pounding a Plymoth Horizon in the ass at 50 or so MPH, but when my kid hit a CURB in a Kia it cost the insurance company 16,000 American dollars to replace the snapped lower control arm and the mayhem that ensued from the wheel bending up amd pulling the driveshaft out.
I cannot imagine being able to break a good ol’ SALA suspension from back in the day that easy.
I think the curb would have broken first.
“driver assist crap”
I follow a guy on X who said he hates his wife’s car with all the fancy doo-dads.
He had to drive it one day and as he was backing it out of the driveway, the radio display changed to a stupid video of a guy riding a bike getting hit by a car.
Bwaaaahahahahaha
Claudia LOL!
Claudia
Just got the wife a new suv. Holy crap. Don’t try and change lanes unless you use your turn indicator. The wheel actually fights you. I could do without all those damn cameras. They have a view from above the car when you are pulling into tight spaces. How in the hell do they do that. I keep looking for the camera drone.
My parents had a 1970 Buick GS-400. 0 to 60 in 6.2 seconds. I tried it. Yep. It did it. That’s 0.44 g’s! (Nerds have stopwatches.)
“American auto Manufacturers need to start building vehicles to a quality standard of Japan’s Toyota”
The 3 worst cars I ever owned were all foreign: Mazda (blown engine), VW (blown engine) and Toyota (blew everything but the engine). Maybe my luck just sucks.
Do you actually think they can still build a reliable one…
esp. Stelantis or Whatever the HELL they call themselves THIS YEAR!
Only if you can afford to by gas that is thru the roof. Lower prices that were part of “his” campaign broken promises, now he’s just laughing at all Americans.
For a few years in the nineties I had a ’76 Lincoln Mk IV that was in decent condition. Typical land yacht, almost 19ft long and 6,000 lbs curb weight. A very comfortable interstate cruiser, but the 460cid engine only got 8-9 mpg and that’s if you didn’t kick in the 4bbl too often – I could see the gas gauge move every time I floored it and it had a 26 1/2 gallon gas tank! I still sort of miss it, even though it was a totally impracticable car. Just finding a parking spot could be a pain in the keister.