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With premium gas potentially hitting $8+/gallon by Summer, is anyone regretting buying a 14 mpg pseudo Baja truck? No politics, please!

RHOfan said:
I’m old enough to remember the 1st oil crisis in US history. 1973. The former OPEC turned off the faucet. Gas went from $.25/gallon to $.85/gallon in short order. Yes, it came back down after some oil price negotiation & the faucet re-opened. But the days of $.25/gallon gas were mostly gone.

Fast forward to 2026, and we could theoretically see $8+/gallon premium by Summer. I believe some areas of CA are already seeing it.

I wonder if that will hinder TRX sales once the order books open?

NO POLITICS, PLEASE!!!
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Nope. 14 MPG? Lucky. I run top tier 93. JB4 on map 3. Sport is on my widgets. I enjoy embarrassing V8 “muscle cars”. All that for a blue face Benny a week? Yep. It’s just paper.
 
MoMo said:
Nope. 14 MPG? Lucky. I run top tier 93. JB4 on map 3. Sport is on my widgets. I enjoy embarrassing V8 “muscle cars”. All that for a blue face Benny a week? Yep. It’s just paper.
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Which firmware are you running? Any issues, hesitation, pulled timing etc?
 
After conversion to local currency, 8USD per gallon = 7.76AED per liter, currently I pay 2.5AED per liter, this would be a crazy price to pay, especially when my fuel cost per month is around 500USD as it is, so 1500USD fuel cost per month is crazy. Since our currency is pegged to the dollar, and consequently the country's main export (oil), I do regret it if it'll be like that :ROFLMAO:. However, most of the cars here (mainly Nissan patrol or your Nissan Armadas) are roughly the same on fuel, the entire economy is impacted but oil and gas is government owned, so I can expect a price ceiling of around 4-5USD per gallon locally.

Same situation as @Eric (long commute for work daily, every day with WFH is great), heavily agreed with that @AFX (people who buy super cars or sports or sports trucks don't or shouldn't care if fuel is 1 or 10 dollars a gallon), and I agree with you on the oil pipeline being reopened/renegotiated for your domestic market. The USA is the largest holder of crude oil after all and the world's largest importer of goods, so they will subsidize fuel *to a certain extent, pushing brunt of the prices on areas where it is normalized (guessing Cali by the threads comments), with other areas following suit depending on how long this goes on. But hey, inflation, gold re eval (can wipe 12.8T USD roughly of debt out), currency depreciation (after gold re eval, what's yesterdays dollar worth compared to todays *hint much less), debt crisis solved, thats my theory.

Just for reference for some of you guys, in Switzerland (already an expensive place) fuel has been at 8USD± / gallon for a long time even prior to this, people there are fine. In terms of adjusted for inflation and PPP (purchasing power parity) and tax, the US' average owner of an RHO can cruise through it just fine unless you're planning on doing 30k+ miles this year. Then it'll be an issue :ROFLMAO: Not to mention, most owners of an 80k+ sports/offroad truck usually have a second vehicle (with better mileage) or a commute option.
 
I’m not worried, a lot of my neighbors park cars outside so i’ll just siphon gas from their cars at night.

My mindset is you have to live, world could end tomorrow for all we know. I would buy a $10k beater honda or Toyota first bc if gas gets that high and stays that high we would take a bath on our trucks so it would equal out lol
 
RHOfan said:
I’m old enough to remember the 1st oil crisis in US history. 1973. The former OPEC turned off the faucet. Gas went from $.25/gallon to $.85/gallon in short order. Yes, it came back down after some oil price negotiation & the faucet re-opened. But the days of $.25/gallon gas were mostly gone.

Fast forward to 2026, and we could theoretically see $8+/gallon premium by Summer. I believe some areas of CA are already seeing it.

I wonder if that will hinder TRX sales once the order books open?

NO POLITICS, PLEASE!!!
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Same here. I recall gas rationing lines as a kid. I have zero regrets buying a vehicle I enjoy. Gasoline prices go up and down and nothing in this world is permanent.
 
Adub said:
Which firmware are you running? Any issues, hesitation, pulled timing etc?
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No. It’s less than a second off from our TRX from a dig on draggy. IMO once she’s spooled, she pulls harder than the TRX.
 
502rambo said:
After conversion to local currency, 8USD per gallon = 7.76AED per liter, currently I pay 2.5AED per liter, this would be a crazy price to pay, especially when my fuel cost per month is around 500USD as it is, so 1500USD fuel cost per month is crazy. Since our currency is pegged to the dollar, and consequently the country's main export (oil), I do regret it if it'll be like that :ROFLMAO:. However, most of the cars here (mainly Nissan patrol or your Nissan Armadas) are roughly the same on fuel, the entire economy is impacted but oil and gas is government owned, so I can expect a price ceiling of around 4-5USD per gallon locally.

Same situation as @Eric (long commute for work daily, every day with WFH is great), heavily agreed with that @AFX (people who buy super cars or sports or sports trucks don't or shouldn't care if fuel is 1 or 10 dollars a gallon), and I agree with you on the oil pipeline being reopened/renegotiated for your domestic market. The USA is the largest holder of crude oil after all and the world's largest importer of goods, so they will subsidize fuel *to a certain extent, pushing brunt of the prices on areas where it is normalized (guessing Cali by the threads comments), with other areas following suit depending on how long this goes on. But hey, inflation, gold re eval (can wipe 12.8T USD roughly of debt out), currency depreciation (after gold re eval, what's yesterdays dollar worth compared to todays *hint much less), debt crisis solved, thats my theory.

Just for reference for some of you guys, in Switzerland (already an expensive place) fuel has been at 8USD± / gallon for a long time even prior to this, people there are fine. In terms of adjusted for inflation and PPP (purchasing power parity) and tax, the US' average owner of an RHO can cruise through it just fine unless you're planning on doing 30k+ miles this year. Then it'll be an issue :ROFLMAO: Not to mention, most owners of an 80k+ sports/offroad truck usually have a second vehicle (with better mileage) or a commute option.
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Not sure I’m following all of this. I don’t see how the US will subsidize the price of gas/oil. The best they can do is release some oil from the federal strategic reserve but this is a political band aid. Not sure what the oil pipeline is that you’re referring to. California is its own beast and yes, it is 100% due to the politics in that particular state. I don’t see gasoline hitting $8/gallon with exceptions for California.
 
Gas isn't going to hit $8 a gallon and in 4 months we won't even remember this middle east conflict, we'll be onto the next "EVERYONE LOOK OVER HERE" circus to keep us distracted from the fact they're taxing us to death and that your groceries cost twice what they did 5 years ago.

Just my .02
 
MoMo said:
No. It’s less than a second off from our TRX from a dig on draggy. IMO once she’s spooled, she pulls harder than the TRX.
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You are going to make the Trx boys very Salty with this post!...🤣
 
Just remember, if the zombie apocalypse or mad max era comes, ya’ll have the right truck! 😉
 
26MoltenRHO said:
Not sure I’m following all of this. I don’t see how the US will subsidize the price of gas/oil. The best they can do is release some oil from the federal strategic reserve but this is a political band aid. Not sure what the oil pipeline is that you’re referring to. California is its own beast and yes, it is 100% due to the politics in that particular state. I don’t see gasoline hitting $8/gallon with exceptions for California.
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Was referring to what @RHOfan said, not sure on the specifics. But yes the government is too profit focused to subsidize it, I am saying the UAE's government will subsidize it for domestic market, not the US'. @Wrinkled_Donut we have no taxes over here ;) Come visit
 
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