Sean Duffy on slashing fuel economy standards: "This rule will actually allow you to bring back the 1970s station wagon.

[demmiblue]

Sean Duffy on slashing fuel economy standards: "This rule will actually allow you to bring back the 1970s station wagon. Maybe a little wood paneling on the side. We can bring back choice to consumers."

Sean Duffy on slashing fuel economy standards: "This rule will actually allow you to bring back the 1970s station wagon. Maybe a little wood paneling on the side. We can bring back choice to consumers."

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-12-04T13:23:34.925Z

[doc03]

1. Who would want a 1970 station wagon, the Griswald's nt

[Ocelot II]

2. Just what I've been dreaming of for the last 40 years.

Maybe Elon will make a wood-paneled Tesla station wagon?

[demmiblue]

6. There's a wrap for that!

[Ocelot II]

7. OMG! Somebody actually figured out a way to make the Cybertruck even uglier.

Kudos, I think...

[Rob H.]

30. What a terrible day to have eyes

[BlueSpot]

66. OMG, perfect!

[Diamond_Dog]

3. Talk about taking America backwards!

A 1970s era wood paneled station wagon is the perfect symbol for what Republicans want for America.

[Rebl2]

4. And why

would we want to bring back the ugly station wagon?

[dameatball]

5. Seats nine and 30% of passengers are in that rear seat always looking backwards. Sounds familiar.

[demmiblue]

8. ...

[carpetbagger]

49. Seats 10.

The smallest kid fit sideways in that space between the 2nd and 3rd rows.

If you call me bitter and traumatized, I'll throw my prunes at you and chase you off my lawn.

[rampartd]

51. mine was a 73 chevy malabu. metallic green.

i lived in that sucker when my wife left.

[eppur_se_muova]

9. PS: FUCK THE ENVIRONMENT. Yours, Sean. nt

[dsc]

10. I had a 1986 Caprice Classic Wagon

it was massive and got horrific gas mileage. Frankly school buses do better now than that did 20 years ago. It was, to be fair, a great car to move from Ohio to NC in. I was able to move a whole bunch of my stuff. But it was otherwise very impractical. I just bought a Hyundai Elantra Hybrid. I get just under 50 mpg in it so far. I literally had no American made option in terms of sedans.

[kysrsoze]

11. U.S. consumers made their choices. They don't want 70's wagons. They want massive SUV's.

How can this adminstration be so completely out of touch, and idiotic about EVERYTHING?

[MichMan]

43. They also are not interested in buying an EV

GM CEO Mary Barra said that in order to meet the current standards 50% of sales would need to be EV. She didn't see consumers interested in buying them in those numbers.

(Bloomberg) -- General Motors Co. faced the prospect of needing to cut production of gasoline-fueled vehicles if electric-vehicle sales failed to grow as needed under ambitious fuel economy requirements enacted by President Joe Biden, company Chief Executive Officer Mary Barra said.

Fuel efficiency standards now being rolled back under President Donald Trump would have required a fleet average of about 50 miles per gallon by 2031. That effectively meant that most carmakers would have to get more than half of their sales from EVs by that time.

If those EV sales didn’t materialize — and the rules weren’t reduced by Biden in response — GM would have had to limit sales of gasoline-powered vehicles and possibly shut down some of its production, Barra said at the New York Times Dealbook conference in New York on Wednesday.

“We were going to have to start shutting down plants,” Barra said.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/gm-s-barra-says-tough-auto-mileage-rules-risked-plant-shutdowns/ar-AA1REiGC?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=LCTS&cvid=6930ca569a1e44d88d66e91dd8baccca&ei=11

[travelingthrulife]

12. We don't want this kind of choice, Sean. God, this guy's an idiot.

I remember one of these cars. We had 10 kids in our family. Those stuck in the back of the car of course had no seat belts so you would kind of roll around and most ended up nauseated.

[llmart]

45. We always had a station wagon when I was growing up.

There were seven kids and my parents and that's the only vehicle that would hold us all. We even had an Edsel station wagon and one time we had a funeral car. It had kneelers that folded down in the middle seat and we used to fight over who was going to get those seats. They were always used cars as we were poor. My parents never had a new car or two cars.

[betsuni]

13. Why did I immediately think of "The Brady Bunch"? They must've had a station wagon.

[Wiz Imp]

38. The first Brady Bunch Station Wagon from a November 1969 episode

?w=768&h=525

[ForgedCrank]

39. I have

to disagree.
Vehicle emission systems were at peak effectiveness in the early 90's. In that era, we had catalyst systems and MFI that eliminated most pollutants. Since then, EGR and EVAP systems have grown out of control and are a plague for the consumer. That's not to even mention the 100+ sensors now required to monitor all of it and the dozens of other tech that has been implemented in an attempt to gain 0.01% extra efficiency. It's madness at this point.
All of the stuff added since then have been for minor, and I mean extremely minor gains and all at a massive cost. Not only cost in development and manufacturing, but they consume the vast majority of repair bills over the life of the vehicle, often sending otherwise mechanically serviceable vehicles to the scrap yard as they are no long worth fixing from a monetary viewpoint, or the mfg simply stopped making the parts.
The idea was taken way too far and it is the primary reason you now have to get 7 year loans to afford a new vehicle. The entire system needs to be revisited and brought back to a reasonable level. It is way out of control.

[Americanme]

14. Do these idiots really think we want to choose to spend more on gas?

I don't want to burn more gas every mile.

[Hey Joe]

17. I don't think these idiots "think " at all.

Unless it’s a scheme to generate wealth from shaking down the world before killing the planet. That appears to be all that they are capable of.

[travelingthrulife]

19. Somebody does. I red earlier this year trucks were 17% larger last season

[Prairie Gates]

15. We already did...it's called a Subaru Outback

[unweird]

29. Actually titled as a station wagon

We bought one a couple of years ago for retirement roadtripping. I was pleased that PA actually registered it as a station wagon and not an SUV.

[Prairie Gates]

36. It's def a station wagon

[purr-rat beauty]

16. This guy needs to take a long trip

Off a short pier in a 1970s station wagon

[Vinca]

18. A couple of days ago my husband commented that by the time Trump is done our air will resemble

the way it was in the 1950's. It's taken decades to clean up and now we can look forward to starting all over again.

[yardwork]

20. I know, right?!

I remember flying into LA in July 1975. We walked out of the airport into a greenish yellow haze that burned our eyes. It looked and smelled like Hell.

[miyazaki]

27. I seem to remember half days from school because of the smog,

and/or spending recess inside the gym.

You can still see it in particular episodes of Adam 12 and Emergency! filmed in that time.

[snowybirdie]

21. Had one

way toocrowded with my 5 rug rats and dog. Forget groceries in the back. Isn't this the guy who has 6 or 7 kids?

[Wiz Imp]

37. He has 9 kids

[Baitball Blogger]

22. Bat shit crazies.

[RockRaven]

23. Auto companies will go bankrupt if they try building them. Nobody but a handful

of MAGAt freaks wants a car like that anymore.

[no_hypocrisy]

24. Hey Sean! Why not ban catalytic converters

and allow lead in gasoline while you’re at it.

[yellowcanine]

25. The 1970s was probably the worst decade for American cars in the last 75 years. So why would we want to revisit it?

Duffy is an idiot.

[jmbar2]

26. Maybe they'll bring back the Pinto!

[Junipercity]

53. Now. Now

I owned 5, one was the wood toned wagon. I enjoyed them all very much! 😆 easy to work on, cheap, and not a single one exploded!

My first was a 70 1/2 model year 71 with a sn# under 10,000

[jmbar2]

60. They are actually pretty cool cars

I had forgotten what they looked like. I still would not want to be rear-ended in one.

[VGNonly]

58. Ford's better idea.

[jmbar2]

61. Bwa Ha Ha - what is that clip from?

[tinrobot]

63. We had a Pinto wagon - complete with wood sides

It was a pile of crap.

[DBoon]

28. he will also bring back 1970s air pollution

yes, the picture is from 1948, but you had similar conditions until the early 1980s

[tanyev]

31. Cool, will it get rid of seat belts, too?

[get the red out]

32. Faux paneling?

Will we get back the wooden paneling look too?

[ThoughtCriminal]

33. Ah, the Griswold Family Truckster!

At 6 MPG hwy, I think I'd prefer Cousin Eddies RV.

[The Madcap]

34. And bench front seats with fake leather and no airbags

Oh, my aching back.

[dalton99a]

35. With a single-pane real glass windshield and no seal belts

[jmowreader]

40. Hang on for a second here...1970s station wagon?

Isn't that what a Chevy Suburban is? The only differences between a station wagon and an SUV are about a foot of ground clearance and a driven front axle on the SUV.

[haele]

41. The 1970's Station Wagon averaged 12 mpg highway. 22 gallon tank

Boy howdy I really want one; what with gas averaging around $3 - $5 per gallon wherever it is you're located. Heck, bring back those leaded fumes while you're at it.

Give me a cream colored woodie, one with 3 on the tree or 4 on the floor. I don't care! (What, you never drove stick?)
I need that vroom, vroom feeling to take me back to my childhood.

Ah. The scent of car-sick six-year olds and naugahyde rear facing bench seats in the back of the wagon...

Duffy's a F'ing idiot.

On edit. Corrected the mpg in the header. I looked up my uncle's old Impala station wagon; averaged 10 city/12 highway.
Dad's Valiant (considered a compact vehicle) got an average of 15 mpg.

[llmart]

46. I read through all the posts before seeing you refer to them as a "woodie".

The headlines should read, "Sean Duffy wants a woodie." Let social media play with that meme for awhile.

There were a lot of off-colored jokes about owning a "woodie". You get my drift.

[sakabatou]

42. "F*ck the environment!" -Duffy, probably

[Arazi]

44. Isn't that just a minivan? Or a large SUV?

If you want woody panels I’m sure a body shop can add them (and we can laugh at you for it)

[haele]

50. You could get Woody panels on the PT Cruiser in the 2000's

I think you can get them on the ID Buzz as a trim wrap, too.

[Kid Berwyn]

47. The Bulgemobiles of Bruce McCall

New!...from the Tires Down.

https://www.gr86.org/threads/1946-bulgemobiles-%E2%80%94-new%E2%80%A6from-the-tires-down.10826/

[LetMyPeopleVote]

48. Now, if Trump & Duffy can bring back the Pinto

Link to tweet

?s=20

[Ocelot II]

52. The Corvair, too!

[underpants]

54. This isn't some cornball perfect white America TV show you dolt.

[NickB79]

55. Stagflation comes standard

[DBoon]

56. will he bring back waiting in line for gasoline?

and fueling on odd/even days?

[beaglelover]

59. I took my driver's test in a 1978 Malibu wagon with wood siding. I really loved driving that car.

It had a V8 engine with a very smooth ride. But I loved driving my Mom's 1977 Camaro with the V8 more!

[maxsolomon]

65. 1972 gold Ford Country Sedan wagon here.

about 300' long.

[flvegan]

62. You mean a 460 cubic inch big block with 212 horsepower? Pushing 4500 lbs of Country Squire?

Nobody wants that, Sean, you dipshit.

BTW, anyone that actually DOES want a 70s station wagon can buy one on Bring a Trailer or Cars n Bids or eBay Motors. They were shit when new, they are shit now, and they'll always be shit.

[Iris]

64. He's such a dumbass. Yes, and maybe moms will wear gloves and a hat to car pool as well!