Almost enough to make you want to buy a big floor jack and change them out yourself, huh?
Ford getting out of the car game (basically)
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I wondered this myself last week after my car got rear ended bad enough to be totaled and I couldn't get my stuff out of the trunk. Since they didn't let me know before towing it to the auction yard, the insurance adjuster had someone there wrench it apart and she delivered the stuff to my house which was a win for me.
Didn't this change? I believe new trucks are licensed just like cars in Iowa and it's been this way for a number of years.
Nope, not for $49 and they clean the winter tires up before sacking them and putting them back in my car. Was already going to the dealer to get an oil change. I could pay to have them stored in their tire hotel but I'm not that elite.
And a nice courtesy car wash.And I have floor jack, just in case, never used.
Good catch - looked at wrong table. Looks like $150 a year now.
http://www.iowataxandtags.org/media/1737/tags-regtrucktrucktrackerfees.pdf
I'll be over to borrow it. You don't mind if my beater drips a little oil on your drive and garage floor do you?Nope, not for $49 and they clean the winter tires up before sacking them and putting them back in my car. Was already going to the dealer to get an oil change. I could pay to have them stored in their tire hotel but I'm not that elite.
And I have floor jack, just in case, never used.
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Looks to me like the truck would be more than the car. I asume you're talking about pickups.
Pertains to all vehicles where the registration fees are based on weight and list price of the vehicle.)
The formula is calculated as follows: $0.40 per hundred pounds of vehicle weight, plus 1% of vehicle MSRP.
http://www.iowataxandtags.org/vehicle-registration/registration-fees-by-vehicle-type/
Ford is going to do fine with police cars -- plenty of Explorers rolling around with LE mods. Des Moines (and suburbs) have 'em everywhere.
Yup, I'm in the Chicago Burbs. I travel mainly in the NW suburbs, I haven't seen an actual "Cop Car" in years. Everyone has Explorers now for their marked vehicles.
Yes, In the last 5 years Ford Explorer has went from 12% to 50% of police market share.
Yep brings back memories of riding with my Grandpa in his series of Dodge Trucks through the 80s. He was a modest guy so he never wanted people to notice that he got a new truck. We raised hogs but he kept them spotless and always got a red Dodge truck. Worked well through the 80s and early 90s when the style never really changed. The great thing was even in 1995 the Dodge trucks dramatically changed and he thought as long as he stuck with red no one would notice.
I drive a newer Jeep Cherokee Trailhawk. Leather heated, ACC, blind spot detect, all that jazz so its great comfort wise, but I still take it pretty easily through some deep sand at the beach, and some decent snow up in the mountains, occasional logging trails. Labradors love it as well.
My Ford F150 with the ecoboost gets about the same mileage as my wife's Honda Accord minivan. They've made some substantial improvements to trucks in the last 20 years.
This sounds more like a script to one of their commercials!
I won't lie, my pictures would fit into their commercials quite well..
My 2018 Escape gets around 24.5-26 in town and over 30 on the highway. Every bit as well as I was doing with a 2011 Altima.
I'll never go back to a sedan. Like the ride, like the space, like sitting up higher, kid has more room. Don't care that its the stereotypical single dad car...
I'll never go back to a sedan. Like the ride, like the space, like sitting up higher, kid has more room. Don't care that its the stereotypical single dad car...
I drove today from Ames to Waukee on Highway 17 and got 41.8 mpg in my 2016 Honda Accord (e-10 gas). The Mrs and I had a long talk about the difference between a crossover (2015 Toyota Rav4) and a sedan for our next car when her college car died in March. The sedan won her over with -
This is the rating for child seats in our Accord: https://www.cars.com/articles/2016-honda-accord-car-seat-check-1420684711222/
Here is the 2015 Toyota Rav4 ratings: https://www.cars.com/articles/2015-toyota-rav4-car-seat-check-1420680435779/
Accord safety rating: 5 stars vs Rav4: 4 stars
I also had several conversations with crossover owners and their real world mpg never touched what the vehicle was rated for while most Asian sedans overachieve their ratings. It is such a CRAZY misconception that if you have kids you need an SUV/Crossover. The whole "I want to sit higher" is truly the only reason I could see in justifying a crossover over a sedan. If you are willing to part with multiple thousands of dollars over the life of a vehicle than I guess an SUV may be right for you
This is the rating for child seats in our Accord: https://www.cars.com/articles/2016-honda-accord-car-seat-check-1420684711222/
Here is the 2015 Toyota Rav4 ratings: https://www.cars.com/articles/2015-toyota-rav4-car-seat-check-1420680435779/
Accord safety rating: 5 stars vs Rav4: 4 stars
I also had several conversations with crossover owners and their real world mpg never touched what the vehicle was rated for while most Asian sedans overachieve their ratings. It is such a CRAZY misconception that if you have kids you need an SUV/Crossover. The whole "I want to sit higher" is truly the only reason I could see in justifying a crossover over a sedan. If you are willing to part with multiple thousands of dollars over the life of a vehicle than I guess an SUV may be right for you
