Assuming the hood is functional, it isn’t that bad of an idea. Still, ND to me.

Is there any risk of electrocution with a submerged EV? That is something I did not think about. 

Not being bleak, those are facts, unfortunately. I did follow up with that reasoning in another comment. I guess to me, there could still be a sliver of hope, but I am no expert.

I have no idea honestly. I have read there is an internal manual release, but not sure how exterior handle works. 

Yea, that was my thought. Unfortunately, at that point, there was no rush. The way I read it was they got there a bit after mid-night and got her out at 12:56am. So, depending on what “a bit after midnight” means that could be 40-55 min in my head. I guess my thought is if they did get there right around say 12:05am…

I mean, we already kind of knew this/assumed this, didn’t we? Also, if my friend calls me and says, “I am in a car, in the water and sinking”. You better fucking believe I am grabbing something big and heavy or sharp (or both/anything I can find) to get them the fuck out. I still don’t understand how it took the first…

I think that is possible, but with where new car prices are (and I know your comment is a theory) we wouldn’t be far off. From what I am seeing, some of the cars are so cheap, that even a 50% or more tariff would have them in the $30k range. Maybe some will be $45k+, but I am willing to bet that these companies (and…

Yes, that makes sense. It should not be indefinite. I still don’t think that the tariffs would do much to car prices here in the US. We don’t have them now, so maybe with them prices could get a bit cheaper, but I don’t think they would/will go up due to that. 

And at what cost did they make any of those profits? They had their IP stolen (most likely), are now essentially being forced out of China and risk having their lunch taken here at home. China made rules to make them setup shop inside China so they could learn how to build cars and made them share profits with local…

OK, well that makes a bit more sense. I was going to say, of course freaking LA to Liberia (in Africa) isn’t profitable. 

IS500/ISF/RCF and GSF are very high on my list of cars to own.

Unless you count single payments for a car outright, I think my wife’s car was $320/month. Bought it in 2016 for around $20k at 1.75% and 60 months. 

I feel like multiple bankruptcies should be sufficient enough, but maybe I am just a quitter?

Oh, he will be back somehow, someway. 

Third time is the charm X2 I guess.

Los Angeles to Liberia? I didn’t even think this would be any available flight.

Compact? That has to be a joke, right?

The hits just keep coming, YIKES. Don’t worry, third time is the charm, right Henrik? 

Yep, I agree. I don’t know what the answer here is but we need to look into protecting our auto manufacturing in one way or another. Also, if Chinese EV’s came here at a significant and subsidized discount, there is definitely a worry on my end.  

Yes, China no longer has that rule since they already got what they wanted from that rule. I am just saying that pretending like we should just let them come, while ignoring what China has done at the same time seems silly.