Hello Ford.... any lights on over there? You would sell the snot out of these things here.

Ok... whatever. let's say 17k. What's a better deal? 17k for a stripped Corolla or 19jk for a loaded Volt?

yup. Sounds old fashioned but it's very much true. For example my wife and I owned a beat up 12 year old Prius. The Volt came out in 2010. I really wanted one but the things were 40k. I waited until last year and bought a used Volt, loaded with everything, leather, heated seats... The works. It had 29k. I bought it…

usually when I see posts like these it's for something like some POS 8 year old Mercedes that will cost 5,000 bucks for a new radio knob. This on the other hand is something else. I'd buy it and drive it and who cares about the cosmetics? The fun factor alone is totally worth it. PS: ordinarily I'd not be interested…

its on drunken mode.

Is that a floppy drive in the console?

God I love that interior. I'd buy it just for that for the things it would do to the people's minds when they got in and were like- WTF?

bet the engines will go 10 million miles without a problem.

I was going to make the same comment about wearing a respirator but others did. But ahyway, I feel your pain. I prepped and painted my Mercury 10 years ago. I will NEVER do that again. It took months to sand and fix all the rusted out metal areas by grinding them out and welding new stuff in.

Seems like this same thing gets mentioned right along with the "fear" over EVs using more coal or whatever or maybe that the Prius is worse than a Hummer. Its all total baloney. Even a full 15+ year on, the total percentage of hybrids and EVs sold is less than 5% of the US fleet. OTOH as seen on this site we might as…

that thing looks like a Toyota highlander. Whatever vestiges of wagon are long-gone.

I can barely manage to find the radio controls on my car. I'd never be able to use this thing while driving.

I always wanted a flying BBQ grill.

If they can't make cars that will hold together more than a few years I doubt they can do that with a truck. On top of that, as a sort of more "yuppie" brand VW is going to have a hard time convincing staunch Ford and Chevy drivers to buy a VW truck. Especially if it looks like the one in the article, which looks like…

I assume this never went beyond prototype. IMHO the design of the first car was way further ahead of its time than today's Tesla. Pretty cool.

I agree. NASA is totally underfunded. But the overall gist of the conversation is upon the merits of the government either investing, incentivizing or otherwise involving itself in private financial affairs. Those tax incentives are really no different than simply sending outright funds to a company. Both cost money.

They weren't the sole cause for the reasons I mentioned above. They were a contributor but not at all the only reason. Go look up the grand total value of CDOs that were on the books of the largest investment banks. We're talking trillions of dollars here.

Not exactly. The primary function of Freddy and Fannie was to guarantee the value of a given loan. But before we go further, the primary cause of the recession was not due to the actions of Freddie and Fannie. The primary cause was in the creation of a number of privately developed lending programs we came to know as…

Up until 2008 Freddie and Fannie operated privately. It wasn't until 2008 that the government tool full control. Besides, neither of these were ever investment operations.

nope. More like they too are also risking other people 's money. The recession we had was mostly caused via investment banks hedging in CDOs tied to packaged home loans. Those loans of course originating from homeowners and then setup via endless investment plans, some created for ordinary people such as teachers,…