On averages, yes and no. Is it based on volume? Because the average of a Hummer H2 and a new Camry is like 30MPG, but if you adjust for volume on the road, it will be much higher. Also, again, that CO2 number for ICE is 10 years old, so I wouldn’t consider that close to valid. There are a lot of variables, and I…

Exactly what I was thinking. How do you go into this with your company actively failing and think, “You know? We should probably be equals here, right guys?”

I wouldn’t pay that much for one, but I think someone would/will, so NP. These are kind of cool cars, but not something I am really into.

I get that it is marketing lingo, and you can make some bold claims. But I still have no idea how “Auto Pilot” and “Full Self Driving” are allowed to be called what they are called.

Yea, that is true. Not familiar with BMW and their head unit situation, but things sure were easier when DIN was a thing. Then you could easily swap any head unit for any other as long as it fit in the square or rectangle box. I am actually looking at finally replacing the old Nav/CD/DVD player in my old ass…

Got ya, I figured after a rapid discharge charging might be limited. I would bet that cooling was not well thought out, but who knows.

1st Gear: I saw my first Tesla with a MAGA sticker on it today. It actually said “Ultra MAGA” right above the Model 3 name on the back right.

I won’t even acknowledge two of these, but the nothing and Ioniq are way off. There will always be classics that people covet. Have you seen the things that people collect? Ioniq will be lost in the wind. Outside of some super car EV’s, I am not sure many of those will be sought after. There will be some special ones,…

Yea, the first part was. But if I am reading this right, the “One Ford” plan was dismantling that empire building.

I do just fine most of the time. I was more just poking fun at the “drinking is bad, but weed is fine” and insinuating the people needed to do one of the two or I guess other drugs, to relax.

I can’t keep track of all the BS and what is and isn’t true. But what they are doing is using numbers that look big to average people but in the scheme of things are nothing. Like $50k spent on something is such a small amount per person or household. But it is easy to get people riled up because in personal life, it…

You can resell them. Not quite the same, but I had the old radio from my 190e and sold it on eBay to someone in South Africa, I think.

But why are their Maple leaves on a beer can from Sycamore Brewing???

The best (or worst part) is when they use the outlandish random things that money was spent on (Which I will say if true, aren’t great looks). But when you break it down there are tons of little things that make no difference on a personal level to US citizens (IE taxes and gov spending).

People can relax without drugs OR alcohol, imagine that!

I think in theory the “One Ford” plan actually worked (I don’t know the full plan, but as laid out here it seems to have been OK). They did what they needed to do and cut the lines on the anchors. It wasn’t Mullay’s fault that some dummy thought buying JLR, AM and Volvo was a good thing. Look at GM, they did the same…

While I don’t disagree that an EV will have less carbon emissions over some period of time. The study that is linked (about total carbon emissions in tons of CO2) is extremely vague and based on data from 2015. It uses terms like “average mid-size family car” without defining it and no definition of what EV is being…

I have an even better way, don’t make it an EV. There, done.

It gets worse when you look at the buyout option at end of lease. Something like $56k, so you pay $34k for just payment and downpayment and then if you want to keep it, another $56k, or around $91k in total. It is actually a horrible deal.

Yea, and they are actually holding value better than I expected. Looks like $18-20k or so. I mean, not great from original price, but I kind of thought these would be closer to $10k by now.