How reliable is the Yaris?

[DiCaprio]

Since when have fuel prices sky rocketed in the US? You still only pay like 2.80$ per gallon in California. In Germany regular petrol costs like 6.00$ a gallon, because of tax and other governmental shit. Americans can consider themselves lucky, that they can still drive their 6 Liter Trucks because of relatively cheap fuel prices. And everyone is wondering why German car manufacturers are downsizing... emission laws and fuel prices, they have no other options but downsizing VW tried to cheat and see what happened to them.

[ern-diz]

Originally Posted by DiCaprio

Since when have fuel prices sky rocketed in the US? You still only pay like 2.80$ per gallon in California. In Germany regular petrol costs like 6.00$ a gallon, because of tax and other governmental shit. Americans can consider themselves lucky, that they can still drive their 6 Liter Trucks because of relatively cheap fuel prices. And everyone is wondering why German car manufacturers are downsizing... emission laws and fuel prices, they have no other options but downsizing VW tried to cheat and see what happened to them.

I think the reference was of several years back. There was a point where we were nearly at $6 a gallon. At that time, interest in smaller, fuel saving cars ramped up. Now that prices are mostly back down, the truck nuts drag on.