I have no clue why people live in places with such god-awful weather. I moved away from the Northeast to Cali 20 years ago and still to this day wonder how I managed to live there for 2 years

No, no, no no....

Tesla needs to hire him because he made the car seem way more exciting than Tesla ever did.

We spent probably close to 2 years looking at alternate cities: Austin, Raleigh/Durham, Various small cities throughout the southeast and west. Unfortunately the recession hit and we got stuck.

We will see. I am originally from rural Tennessee so I am accustomed to that sort of environment. But the weather is another thing. We went to visit my family back there at Xmas and nearly froze.

He is a pathetic piece of human fecal matter who has zero business being in the position he is in. I can’t think of anything more to say.

I’ve not had the best luck. Basically moved here when I was 23, worked at a few “joe” jobs before landing work in a few smaller tech and online retail companies, then to some larger enterprise companies. To date I’m at job No. 8 or 9. I lost jobs twice: Once because the product the company was selling... wasn’t, the…

Yup. And in the 80's my parents drove shitty little econo-cars and we had 3 large vegetable gardens and lots of other stuff that all pointed towards the not so great times my folks were experiencing financially. As a kid I didn’t think about it. But in hindsite a lot of folks in that era were going through the same…

I’m only 40 but have been through it seems like 3 economic collapses:

They are also tied to economic bubbles as well as collapses. Come the pending recession Americans will do what they always do: Panic, sell at a huge loss, fill the lots with the things and maybe for about 10 seconds start buying you know- actual, practical, cheaper cars. Wash. Rinse. Repeat.

Thanks for mentioning this. It always pisses me off when ( usually some loud right winger ) bellows about GM and then ignorantly proclaims Ford required no bailout when in fact they totally did.

At the end of the day... its not exactly even that good looking. If anything it looks like a plain-ole-Mercedes. But given the (still) bubbly economy I assume Mercedes figured the time is ripe now if any to pull more money from some gullible pockets.

The picture of the engine is exactly why most German cars tend to start having serious issues within 3-4 years: Just look at that yellow plastic chain guide. Toyota tried something like that in the 80's and they would wear out and the chain would then start sawing into the engine block. So much unnecessarily, overly…

Both of these guys come off as cranky old men who are crabby that they have a car that’s actually different. Secondly, the car they have is probably one of the very earliest examples thus some of the bugs mentioned have likely been worked out anyway.

Hmmm... You know, I had been looking at replacing my 23 year old Tacoma with either a new Tacoma or Chevy Colorado but seeing as how they are

Ok, sure. fair enough. I just don’t really see a big difference between the two. They are more or less crossovers. But at least for around here the Traverse would actually be different.

So in other words you’re kind of being snotty about the Chevy just because its a Chevy. PS: My brother owns a Subaru outback and let me tell ya that even with its manual transmission its not exactly the most amazing thing I’ve driven... And yes- around here in the Bay Area where everyone turns their noses up at…

My Brother ownsA Subaru Outback. I’m sorry but its more or less like a camry shaped like a sorta-kinda-SUV-wagon thing.

Nah... practically every other hipster family in XXX metro area drives Subarus. At least the Traverse is different...

Cars today are more like akin to a PC, mobile phone or TV set. Tear em’ apart and they’re full of parts from any number of manufactures and put together whom knows where. My Volt was assembled in Detroit and is about 50% domestically produced content. The transmission is Japanese. The battery is Korean. The engine is…