Definitely agree with the comment about FE making it difficult for fans. I’m an avid F1 fan, and am interested in FE, but in the US it’s nearly impossible to watch races. The few times I’ve tried, I had to pay for cable channels like CBS to watch it, and that’s stupid. Honestly, if they had a good subscription service…

Maybe the market is more for the young-ish engineers? I’m a 32-year old engineer, and most of my friends are also early 30's engineers... and literally all of them now own a home (with 1 exception who owns a condo but is looking to make the move to a house this year).

I’d like to know this as well- my wife and I are considering a Civic Si to replace our BMW 2 series (would like 4 doors for young kids), but coming from a somewhat luxurious BMW I feel the Civic is lacking in luxury features. Is the Integra worth an additional $6-7k (manual trans, so top trim) over the Si? Does it…

Can you easily fit a rear-facing car seat in the back seat (with the front seat in a ‘reasonable’ position)? My wife and I are considering selling our BMW M235i because we want a 2nd car to have 4 doors, and we’ve been considering a Civic SI (we still want a manual trans!). I’m now considering the Integra though…

150 billion yen.... not dollars. That’s about $1.37B USD.

NP because these TI’s were pretty cool and quirky. I might be biased though...

I think at least part of that is due to last year being a transition year. I am interested to see what Lincoln sales look like over this year and next year with the introduction of the Nautilus, Aviator, and the new Corsair.

I’m entirely with you on people > profits and human rights and all that. However, I think there’s more to the argument of manufacturing in low-cost countries than you are noting.

Sure... unless it costs just as much to actually produce them... I would bet it doesn’t cost Ford $50k to produce an average F-150.

Is the cost to make either wheel the same? It’s probably “more comfortable” because they use better materials, or it’s a thicker wheel, etc... So sure, it’s possible they are the same cost and the only reason they didn’t put that wheel in every car is because they know they can charge more for it - but it’s more…

Yes - that’s what they are saying. How is that wrong though? You pay more in general for more comfortable seats, more comfortable/luxurious interior trim, more powerful engines, etc...

Some of this stuff is OK... but some of it really not so much. I have a 2015 M235i that I bought used, and the first owner had it all tarted up with the “M Performance” goodies. An actual limited slip diff, and alcantara shift boot? Sure! But those stupid “///M PERFORMANCE” stickers on my side sills that are now…

Yeah, not trying to argue that manufacturing is dead in the US (obviously it isn’t). However, it’s not the jobs-maker it once was, and I don’t think it will ever be again in the US.

Autonomy is an entirely separate topic... but OK. How well did that work for everyone in ~2008? OEMs did go “broke”, yet they’re still around now.

Ok - that’s fair. So hydrogen is significantly more energy dense than batteries. But we already know that batteries can provide us with similar levels of range to ICE vehicles in similar package spaces.

“rush” into the segment? They are already way behind because it takes a long time to develop the technology and then actually implement it into new products.

Except the energy density of batteries is increasing at a pretty rapid pace as we further develop the technology. So while you may, right now, need a “bigger mousetrap”, it is coming down in size. Right now the Tesla Model 3 Long Range gets, what, 325 miles? And it comes in a car package that is roughly the size of a…

What?? It may be the same number of people employed, but the number of people in the US has grown dramatically since 1949. So sure, it’s true America is still making things - but the % of manufacturing jobs is much lower (from your article - 8.5% now down from 30% then). So the chance of an individual getting a job in…

“Maybe if we just ignore it, they will forget the penalty!”

Ever worked in the industry? Honestly, it’s like the designer says “we want it this way”, the engineer says “that’s dumb and stupid and not a good engineering design”, and then management says “yeah but the designer thinks it looks better, so we’re going with that”.