Keep in Mind, I DO NOT HAVE the 2018+ Coyotes mated to a 10 Speed. I have a 2016 Mustang with a 6-speed, I'm sure you guys can get 30mpg highway with 10-speeds ez!

Im starting to be convinced now that lawmakers don’t care about environment and safety, but just hate cars.

Imagine living in a "freedom county" yet didn't have the freedom to choose a small vehicle

Sometimes I wonder how politicians are politicians

The displacement thing is so damn true. My "small displacement" 2.5L Subaru had terrible, AWFUL fuel economy. When I traded that in for a 6.2L Camaro, my fuel efficiency went UP by 10 MPG! It's almost like there are more factors that affect an individual vehicle's overall efficiency...

It’s funny how in my country, an old 3.0 l V6 saloon would be taxed more than say, a 1.6l V6 Mercedes AMG One…

The funny thing is Tax and Insurance (which also goes by engine displacement) on a Mazda RX7 can be really cheap because of the 1.3 engine Only thing is the initial cost of buying one

Only reason I get even slightly mad about SUVs and crossovers is because they essentially eliminated wagons for no good reason. I may be a wagon elitist but I can't help but feel fucked over when crossovers and at least most SUVs don't have as much usable cargo space when compared to a wagon

One of the best things I've heard lawmakers try is ban cars from having more than 2 exhaust tips to decrease emissions. Because obviously the more exhaust tips the more emissions right? It's not like they're all connected to the same engine and go through the same manifold, catalytic converter, front muffler and whatever else car makers put before the pipe splits

When it comes to the CAFE standards, I remember thinking that loophole was stupid when I was 13.

If we could somehow reverse the way CAFE standards work temporarily for a decade or two (tax manufacturers for larger, heavier vehicles that produce more emissions), and then adjust it to be more fair or abolish it completely afterwards, I feel like that may help somewhat in fixing this stupid issue.

I disagree with the front plate one, hit and runners are pieces of shit, without front plates, I would've been shit out of luck. In my state, they can't ticket you by cameras.

Yesterday I read this article about why the 25 year import law came to be and it was the most bullcrap thing I've ever read. Granted it was an advert for an importing company, but the claim that vehicles for other markets are somehow unsafe and unsuitable environmentally by American standards is rediculous. Even worse is that there's been many times to try and repeal or remove these laws and with each passing year it gets harder and harder to do. If the government really cared about environmental emissions, why are we outsourcing some of our most destructive processes, i.e. oil and manufacturing, to, ah, certain locations? If the government cared about passenger safety, rather than penalize the people who make the machines, wouldn't it be cheaper and more efficient to have better driver education? My driver's test was so stupidly easy, and I had no real training in dangerous situations like snow, ice, heavy rain, night driving, or even an option to learn how to drive stick as my driving instruction car. The fact that people both outside and inside of the car community are buying more used cars because new cars literally do not fit their use case is, both as a consumer and as an engineering student, horrifying and depressing. The fact that older SUVs have far better off-road capability than newer models does not give me any confidence that a new vehicle is better than the old. Where's the real innovation? It's not in making passenger cars any more useful, I'll say. And it sucks because some of the new cars that are great, that for some reason we aren't going to get sold new, for some bullshit ass reason determined by executives out of touch with their market, will spike up in value thanks to a growing obsession with BEVs, increased "driver assistance" features, and wanting to get rid of private transportation as a whole. Not technically a bad thing. Just absolutely backwards ass implementation because no one wants to or is able to seriously stick it to the man.

Even if the EPA regulations weren't an issue, the hillux champ would still face a 25% tarrif on light transport vehicles.

That front plate map is outdated, Ohio no longer requires two license plates.

10:42 🤣 As a life long California resident, I really appreciate the dramatic zoom in, when talking about states wanting more money from people. 😂

I really do not think Front Plate blocking an airflow would be an issue for the Japanese Vehicle. Since Front Plate is required per Japanese law everywhere in the country, I am pretty sure all Japanese manufactures designed their cars with plate blocking a certain areas in their mind. The front plate definitely does make car less appealing, but I do not think it would cause an overheating.

Someone may have already said this, but rotary engines are quite small not matter what metric you use. Yet, they get s**t for MPG and aren't very environmentally friendly as they are designed to burn oil. I realized there are essentially quite good reasons for both of these issues, but I think most everyone gets the point.

2:20 None of them compare to the 2.2L 4cyl I had that got about 7mpg. It's now had a block swap to a 2.5L, and now gets a very eco friendly ~11mpg.

Window tint laws really infuriate me. I can get 15% in the back half of my car but heaven forgive I have something on my windshield. The one window that would benefit from a tint from a cooling perspective.

As someone from Europe front license plates have always been normal to me, so while I do like the clean look of a car with no plates, it really doesn't bother me. And the tint laws are indeed meant to make it visible if you're on your phone for example, but also if you have black windows it's easier to miss something outside of your car, so it's safety too.

As a GM Mechanic, saying that I'm disappointed is an understatement. When you put a small engine (2.7t in this case) in a big car, it stresses tf out of the engine trying to keep up with traffic. Problem after problem after problem. And on top of that, making new parts for these is even more pollution. Nothing makes sense anymore

It's possible CAFE standards are working as intended. In business, there's this thing called upselling, which is about getting you to pay from something you didn't necessarily want, just so they get more money. And with those laws 'forcing' them to make bigger cars, you are forced to buy the bigger, more expensive car. Forced upselling.

I have to disagree on almost every topic here: -Engine displacement: The bigger the displacement, the higher the potential amount of fuel needed. The setup doesn't have too much to do with it, but even then, some are easier to make cleaner than others, usually being in favour of DOHC rather than OHV. Hence why you more often find OHV engine only in US cars nowadays, as the laws are less strict. Overall, going by displacement is an easy to work with metric, that you can be billed with. -Front license plate: In most of the world you have to have a front license plate, so if you really want to, you can get brackets from almost everywhere, to fit them on your car, if you don't need e front plate. Furthermore, it seems foolish to complain to move from one state that has that law, to one that doesn't, as it's only 7 countries in the whole world that don't require a front plate. Also, it does help with identification, and if it's just to figure out, if it's your buddy you are about to pass, or some guy with a very similar car. -Window tint: In many countries it's illegal to tint a motorcycle helmet as much as a frontal car window. All in all, I don't see the appeal at all, as it just limits the amount of light entering your cabin, and therefore how much you see. Just get sunglasses if the sun is blinding you, if your visors can't block it. (For that one argument that people often have) Just because no one bothered to ban something for another type of transportation, doesn't mean the bad for the other isn't fair. And to be honest, if it was legal, people would run a 99% tint just because they can.

Minor correction to point 3, Ohio no longer requires front license plates. Also, window tint laws are not so they can identify you, it's so they can see if you're pulling out a weapon during a traffic stop.

I sometimes think that they add these taxes not just bc they are clueless but also just to try and squeeze some extra money out of people by making up ridiculous laws.

We want REPRESENTATION for car guys in office

i have another one for you: here in italy, we have to pay a yearly tax on our cars, called "bollo". it changes depending on the power your car makes (for example, a 125cc bike with around 15 hp -more if it's a two stroke but there is a kind of loophole that allows 2t bike to be registered like they make 15hp, same as a 4t - pays like 15 € a year, a car with less than 100hp is about 25-30€ and for every hp over 100 you pay almost 4€ more... it's kinda complex to calculate, but fortunately it's all automatic lol) and if the car has more than 250hp it pays even more because it still has to pay the bollo as normal with the same math and all, but you also pay the "superbollo" wich is a lot more expensive (like, 1000€ for 400hp + like 200€ or more for the bollo)... i don't really know if the superbollo applies to motorcycles as well, but i know for sure bikes pay less. in the end, an audi rs3, wich by itself is not a really expensive car, sure it might be more then 80k, almost 100k if you put all the optionals, will cost you a lot more, so it's almost like buying a lambo in the us...

Naw the front license plate is good, especially for giving a 50%+ chance of identifying a hit an run on camera compared to a one plate setup

Unpopular opinion. I like front license plates and especially the offset ones, something about them just looks cool, same as an offset hood intake.

As someone who has been a trucker most toll roads are charging trucks 2-3 times the amount a 4wheeler pays.

a funny thing about the displacement laws: in Italy (from the 1973 oil crisis to the 1990s) there was a law where basically having a car with an engine with more than 2000cc was heavily taxed because "it consumed more fuel", short story car makers were like "we can put 2000cc engines in sports car and pump them up with big spooly boy" so cars with 2l engines paid significantly less taxes than a car that had even a cc extra, despite making loads of horsepower more and consuming more fuel. Now they decided that the car power is an indicator of the value for some reason so having an high hp car is taxed heavily, even if you bought a 300hp car for $5k to own it you'll spend an extra 2 grand YEARLY than a $100k car that has like 240 hp, which very much exist (idk now but luxury cars don't have to be powerful) Idk about many examples but cars like the M3 E30 had a downsized engine for the italian market, it was not the 320 engine it was an M3 that had the 2302cc engine downsized to 1990cc, this way they didn't have to pay the shitty 38% VAT tax for luxury goods

The biggest advantage of front-facing plates is paid garages automatically opening when leaving after you've paid the fee/are leaving within the free period.

They needed the clause that ruined the cafe law because us ranchers and farmers need these reliable diesel workhorses for trucks. I tow something with my f-350 at least once a week that my sons Tacoma would be extremely dangerous towing. Hell, I even tried going down to the f-150 but it couldn’t handle what I need it to do so after I got it back from shop for 3rd time I went back and luckily the dealer still had my f-350 and traded that shit right back. I’m trying to bolster your point! lol these laws need to change, there is no reason the ranchers and farmers can’t have towing they need while still allowing the small trucks to be made. Also, wearing a full face helmet in a car would be so much safer. Should totally be allowed.

About the license plate thing: it's also used as a way for cops and parking attendants to get a car's license plate number when it's in a position where you can't get a good view of the car's rear. In Arizona, some parking lots won't let you back into a spot unless you have some kind of identification plate on the front of your vehicle. Also, regarding windshield tints, Arizona requires all cars in the state to have tinted windows. This is because it's so damn hot here year-round that driving a car without tinted windows is like being an ant under a magnifying glass.

9:58 There is another reason if you ask me for the front liscense plate: I worked at a gaz station and believe me, it is really helpful having a front liscense plate when someone try to steal gas. It happened to my boss 3 times in a row by the same exact person with the same exact car, all that because no front liscense plate (they aren't mandatory where I live)

as a Filipino, I find no problem with front plates. Personally they're just there so traffic cams can see even counter-flow vehicles. (if the Philippines even has traffic cams most of the time)

Imagine paying taxes to make roads and then being charged to use them

Man 0 views in 0 seconds, bladed fell off

Politicians know exactly what they are doing. Their goal isn't to make good laws... it's to get paid.

Lol if you want to lose your mind, in France, a godamn GR86 as a 60 k€ malus. Basically a GR86 is 90 k€ because OMG lot of CO2 even if the car is doing 10k km per year

The window tint isn't necessarily a identification thing, as when they pull you over and walk up to your car, they don't have X ray vision. So if you're walking up to someone in a traffic stop, which is one of the most dangerous situations for a cop, they could be grabbing a weapon or be moving something around in the car and the cop needs to see that.

ok so story time. i used to own a nissan juke (mine made about 195hp) . i got, in spirited driving, about 13.8mpg. from a 1.6 litre turbo. i just bought a lexus gs 350 (gets about 306HP). 3.5L NA v6. i get 19mpg doing the same spirited driving. from a much larger much and much more powerful engine in a larger car.

My dad used to have a 1988 g20 chevy van and those had 5.7 V8's if you look up the specs they get about 18mpg combined highway and city miles. now let me just filter search car gurus and see if we can find something with lower displacement and worse fuel economy. ah, here we go, 2010 nissan pathfinder with a 4L V6 16mpg combined. Despite the Chevy van being 22 years older, having a 1.7 L more displacement, and being a V8 instead of a V6. probably because the pathfinder weighs 700 ibs more and is AWD. and I bet you'd be able to load way more into that Chevy van than you ever would in that pathfinder.

meanwhile on the other side of the globe in india, we have even worse import rules that straight up don't allow you to import a car older than 3 years AND make you pay a 100 to 125% tax on it there's also the 10 year limit on diesel vehicles and 15 year limit on petrol vehicles meaning you can't really drive em around in big cities and not have it seized (rare but it can happen) not to mention the total mod ban (can't even change your wheels, smh)

Before seeing the video I can already tell it's gonna be a good one. Love your videos

I don't consider toll roads evil. I actually like the idea of people paying for the highways they use and not paying for those they don't use.

where is the nfs mw 2005 review bladed?

What angers me more about cage laws is that I genuinely prefer smaller cars because it allows more viability but I can’t even enjoy it because half the drivers in larger cars can’t even see me

thank you for the video am trying to troubleshoot a radio problem on my lexus is and this vid brought me back to reality from being annoyed

I hate these laws too man! They suck, really. Love your vids, man!

In the EU and most other countries front license plates are required. The US is the outlier in this case.

Thank you so much for talking about how bs displacement taxes are! Fuel economy is 90% based off your rpm range and valve overlap! A pushrod V8 doing 2,000 rpm at 70 mph burns less fuel than a turbo 4 cylinder doing 70 mph at 5,000 rpm! Unrelated but I though it would have been a good point for this video is how dumb seatbelt laws are. Imagine getting pulled over by a motorcycle cop for not wearing a seatbelt lol!

i always wanted to have a tinted windshield, until i drove a car that had one at night. hell no that shit was scary lol

Chill for us Goofy folks in europe america is a paradies for car dudes

Im not one to make these comments but, 10 seconds ago... damn im early!

Nice to know u still alive dude

So many great points and I'm not even halfway through - sign of a true rant lol :) People talking about engine size not having a clue re one cam just above the crank vs both banks of the wide angle V getting DOHC heads on top making it both taller into the bonnet (hood) and wider into the struts. I walked away from a similar 'conversation' at a party when a guy insisted if a 5L V8 fit in an engine bay then a 3L inline 6 should because - "smaller".

Side mounted licence plate are coolest , love them so much

Tolls are like 8 times higher for 5 axle semis. Plus our highway fuel tax is insane. It cost over 100 bucks to go over the Washington bridge in NYC

Ah now we are in full agreement on something. I knew I liked you, I just thought I hated you first!😂

does the front licens plate need to be on the bumper or can you have it in the cabin infront of the mirror so it can bee seen but not dissturb the airflow

good thing my state doesn't really enforce front plate laws or most traffic laws at all. Then again cops probably think my fake kei plate is an NY plate bc of the color.

I'd like to see Toyota do a compact RWD sports car along the same line as the IMV-0 Hilux Champ truck. Low-cost priority, bare bones & basic, only what you need, nothing you don't.... and let the end user make it what they want. Build a coupe, sedan and wagon all on the same platform with the same exact thinking, sharing most parts. It might not be a beauty queen or out of the box race winner; but frugality, reliability, efficiency, and just getting the job done are big in my book. bump to help the algorithm, but yeah I'm with you on 100% on the bogus laws like these.

I legit go to any dealership in my country and the only two types of cars they sell now are SUVs and UTs. All I want in life is a Miata

From what I heard here in Greece they tax the engine because supposedly the bigger the engine the more expensive the car is

I feel like there should be an automotive division of politics, a group of people that actually know stuff about cars

All of this is so true! Thanks for posting posting

To be fair, those engine displacement taxes are an old and traditional thing. They are from the time when displacement did correlate with fuel consumption. Here in Austria we're heavily penalised for high displacement and you're paying through the nose, even if you drive the damn thing once a month or so. Whereas a smaller engined daily-driver commuter car will be subsidised despite consuming and polluting much more. They should tax the fuel itself, that would really result in lower consumption. If you have a big displacement engine however, you MUST drive it a lot, otherwise you're just paying a lot for a whole lot of nothing. Front plates are not required to collect toll. They can do that just as easily by scanning you from the back. Front plates are needed to make the car more easily identifiable in case of hit-and-run. Offset front plates are nice. Cars from the manufacturer of my car (Alfa Romeo) come standard with offset plates, as not to obscure the "Scudetto", the shield-like feature in the front grill (how Italian is that, eh?). Mount the plate wherever you like. I sincerely couldn't give less of a toss how many plates are mounted where exactly on my car, even if I tried. As long as it doesn't get me stopped, I don't care. Tint restriction on glass ahead of the b-pillar is not there because you must be identifiable, it's about safety in low light conditions. The windows are tinted to the minimum required transmittance by the manufacturer anyway. I don't care about seeing your ugly mug, but I care about you seeing enough not to crash at me in a rainstorm at night.

thankfully my state WA is kinda lax on the front plate, yes it’s required, but you won’t get pulled specifically for it, plus I believe you can request an exemption if you can’t fit one

In greece the displacement tax law is so bad that owning a car above 2.2Liters is practically impossible for a middle class person. Some 1.6 and 1.8 L cars are considered sports cars and kinda fast cuz that’s what makes financial sense to have

It is easier to hide illigal things, to point weapons at officers or to prepare to do harm in a blacked out car. That is why you can't tint windows. On a bike yeah u can't identify the rider, but the rider can't pull a gun or carry a bazzuka without law enforcement being aware of such movements

regarding the front license plates, in america, do yall have those sticker license plates? (we do here but it became illegal a few months back ;-;)

crazy i'm binging your channel content and finding honkai impact 3 music bgm lol

i live in texas and recently got a new gr86 i just don’t use the front lisence plate haven’t had problems yet and got it in march

My state is making us pay for new plates. I've had the same plate since I started driving but because it's embossed they claim I have to get it replaced. Suspiciously they're also constructing a massive toll road on a popular highway nearby. However, it would be interesting if they told me to remove my backup camera that attached to my license plate that happens to be blocking the license plate light (I didn't plan it, but I've never been stopped for it despite working the night shift for a year)

Here in SEA, there's commercial registration if you have big truck (and van), and you do need it since you'll be punished so hard on tax for larger vehicle. But you do need business entity to register. This is basically a better CAFE alternative. It gatekeep manufacture and consumer enough for spamming larger vehicle unnecessarily on road. And for those who ACTUALLY needs big chungus still have chance to own it without breaking the bank account due to larger size tax

On the first law, I thought of something interesting. How about a 2/3 rule? For instance, since pushrod engines are smaller than an equivalent displacement OHC engine, a 3 liter pushrod engine could be taxed the same as a 2 liter OHC engine.

weird thing to comment on a video but im starting to get into cars more and I am soon to have my first real enthusiast type sports car. I live in the same area as you and wonder where you take your sports cars to drive. I do recognize some of the roads in your vids but do you have any recommendations for fun places to drive?

so i know this sounds strange, but in my state we do have the mandatory front license plate -- thing is the only requirement is it just needs to be able to be viewed from the front so, for a number of type of vehicles, people normally put it in the very bottom corner of the front windshield -- inside the cab

Power also affects efficiency, as a lower power engine has to work harder to move the weight of the car, for example, i'm consistently getting 16-20 MPG out of my 2019 Silverado 5.3 (355 HP), whereas the 2010 Sierra 1500 4.3 V6 (195 HP) that i traded in for the silverado got 11 both on the highway and in the city

Love your videos Bladed. I am only 14 but I still understand everything you say in these videos, keep going

What I agree with is additional taxation of vehicles in urban areas based on their size. If you wanna have a bigass pickup, go live in the country outback, and do not bother the others in cramped urban areas. What you didnt mention and is worth mentioning are the new EU laws against using chromium surface on steel (which may not only remove the possibility to get / repair decorative chrome surfaces, but also remove the possibility to produce reliable ball bearings and other components), and the newest laws against vehicle repairs, where vehicles over 15 years of age will be declared "technically retired", and their major repairs (such as replacing rusty body parts or suspension components) will be illegal. And third and finally: The laws prohibiting ICE cars and promoting EVs at all costs, despite the fact that the absolute majority of EVs around here (Czech Republic in my case) are Tesla 3 or bigger, which have higher tire particle emissions than my 20y/o Peugeot 307 has all emissions (HC, NOx, CO, clutch particles, brake particles, brake particles) combined.

I love this series because it combines 2 of my interests. Laughing at stupid things and cars

The front license plate situation is funny. My friend bought a car that previously had one, but it was taken off. He has a gt86, and I joke around with him that they look like nostrils. So the car looks angry with nostrils 😂.

Here in Finland, vehicle taxes are not determined by engine displacement, for newer cars, their mainly calculated on the Co2 emissions reported by the manufacturer, on older cars, they're calculated based on the vehicles total weight Also, regarding tinted windows, here, you're not allowed to have ANY tint on either the windshield or the two front side windows, apart from a small strip along the top edge of your windshield, but this has nothing to do with identification, it's because if you tint the front windows, your visibility out of the vehicle suffers as a result!

The displacement thing gets me every time, because my 4.3 V6 TBI Chevy S10 has MPG close to my 2.0 Saab 9-3. Granted, Saab makes about 100 hp more, but that half a ton hunk of cast iron mated with the 4L60 automatic mounted in a literal brick on mud tires gets similar MPG to a car that is more than a decade younger, is manual and has actual aerodynamics 💀

Fun fact. When some entity's action ends up doing the opposite of what was initially intended, that's called 'The Cobra Effect'.

As a person who studies economics I can tell you they did not ask an expert opinion before making a decision, the amount of times that politicians makes decisions that hurt the people they claim to protect is astonishing.

with the front license plate part, some states like Utah only require a front license plate if the vehicle had the front bracket from the dealership. as well here it's a secondary offense so you can't be pulled over just for having a missing front plate

My friend owns a Civic type R in WA and doesn’t run a front plate. if there’s no mounting point the clause in state law makes an exception, and since he requested the dealer not drill the bumper for a plate he was able to pull it off. He daily drives it and hasn’t had an issue.

I actually love displacement laws, it's why we have high revving Italian cars that sound so good, and get a ridiculous amount of power out of a small engine. It's why European cars have an added layer of complexity and more intriguing from an enthusiasts standpoint.

I actually like the look of offset front plates, I think it's kind of neat

The engineers definitely knew efficiency. Probably just got paid off

"For allowing a corporation to make a worse product and get away with it" They are not allowing it, they are incentivising it. Big difference.

In my country we dont need front plates, some cars have the option to put plates in the front, those are usually used by taxis because they have the car plater and taxi plate, same with buses, but you can also put your custom plate there in a normal car

I think the engine displacement tax has been a thing in places in europe for awhile, even in the days when worrying about the environment meant not dumping raw sewage into the river thames or mediteranean. They used to (up to the 80s even in italy) consider a car with an engine bigger than 2 liters to be a luxury and thus the tax. In italy it did mean the first turbo Ferrari was a version of the 208 (the 308 but with a 2 liter V8) meant to have the same power as the 308 without the tax

the road tax pissed me off especially because my 1.3L yaris is over 6x more expensive to tax than my 1.6L octavia

We've had a displacement tax on engines over 1600 CCs for like 30 years and it sucks. Even cars like the Prius gets taxed highly because it comes with a 1800cc engine

whats stupid about displacement tax is we get lower displacement engines because of it, but then it raises CO2 g/cm3, and then we pay taxes over that