Curiously this discussions wasn’t about those other two companies.

Perhaps you should look up “ Strength through joy”.

Yeah except they haven’t. If it were then every other person I’ve known or know who owns(ed) a VW product, past or present, wouldn’t still be having the same problems VW’s have always had, and continue to have.

Yeah... whatever. Still won’t make anyone forget what they did and have been paying for over the past year. Besides- since VW seems to not be capable of making the power windows work in their “normal” cars I’m not sure they should be developing an entirely electric car anyway.

This thing is pretty fucking ugly. If this were any other brand the auto press would probably skewer it.

You’re wrong.

There’s already 5 billion responses here but whatever. Does anyone else feel a total sense of doom about the election? I’ve more or less already conceded that Trump is probably going to win. Why? Because it doesn’t seem to fucking matter what he says or does, his supporters just giddly go along with everything, like…

Even when these were new I thought they were sort of fugly.

Nah. Where I live it barely rains and the tread it still ok. But they will probably be replaced next month before the rain comes.

I used one of these things 6 months ago on one of my tires. The tires on the car are on their last legs so I figured screw it. So far its been holding up fine.

They have indeed. GM’s biggest problem remains to be perception: they spent so many years making garbage that the public still thinks as such. When I was a kid we had a 78' Old Delta 88, a 80' Chevy Malibu and my grandmother owned a Buick Lesabre: ALL were total pieces of shit. My parents switched to Toyotas and they…

You didn’t mention price points for your argument. You were making a broad statement about all of GM and their build quality.

That’s not why people buy those trucks anyway. They buy them so they can secure their manliness and show it on full display in front of their suburban home. That there might be stickers and stuff that says “ Super-Off-Road- Madness!” or whatever just ads to the mystique...

GM owns Opel. Opel is a GM product. Thus it is GM...

Volt owner, past Prius owner here: Sorry but ther Volt is a rather well built car. The fit and finish, handling, panel tolerances, and interior sound dampening have all been noticeably better than the Prius we drove for years.

Sort of reminds me of the 1960's era Kubota tractor we had when I was a growing up. It too had some strange transmission configurations: A seperate set of levers for the hi-low gears, another for coupling 2WD or 4WD, and then another for the 5 or 6 speeds the tractor could be placed into. The thing was super easy to…

I saw one of these this weekend. My first reaction was that it was a Miata. And that’s the problem this car has. It looks almost exactly like a Miata and as such, the conclusion that many will have: Why buy an unreliable Miata look-a-like?

Real-life example here: I own a 1955 Mercury Monterey. I’ve owned it since 2002. The kicker is that I still have one hell of a commute at 40 miles each way... and so I bought a used Chevy Volt. But the Mercury is driven 2-3 times a week.

I wonder why they’re doing that? There’s no way that could be on a production car: people would burn themselves and its also a potential sharp-ish thing to accidentally run into.

No, can’t say I remember. But then again, not sure I would want to remember this anyway.