They don’t have that fancy L on their keyboards so they have to make do.

Always use a condom, you never know who was there first.

How do you get a used car? You have to start with a new car and depreciate it. New car sales skew towards people who care much less about saving $1000 a year.  Therefore the entire car market is skewed toward what people who don’t care so much about saving money want.

EV’s aren’t revolutionary, there’re evolutionary and are on an evolutionary growth trend. Even with heavy subsidies the economic advantages of owning an EV aren’t enough to make a significant difference to most buyers in the US. You’re talking about saving $1000 a year on a new vehicle when the average cost to own a…

17 Million cars is 13% of households. That is going to skew very highly towards the richest 13% of households.

Most people don’t buy new cars.

The average joe isn’t buying $35k cars.  Has the extra cost of owning a truck/SUV slowed sales?  No.  The low end of the auto market is used cars, not cheap new cars.

You act like saving $1000 a year is going to have impact on my purchasing decision.  It’s not.

Arrogant and ignorant is a poor combination but surprisingly common among Europeans when talking about the US. Do you think Volvo is moving production to China because the Chinese are better at building cars?

That couldn’t be farther from the truth. It’s a slap in the face because that vehicle was promised to DHAM and then moved to Mexico. Just for GM to advertise that fact almost within site of the plant they decided to close.

For the people here that don’t know about Poletown. In the 1980's GM & the City of Detroit used eminent domain to get the land to build the plant by promising thousands of new jobs. GM never followed through with the jobs and the loss of the only healthy community in the area financially ruined the City of Hamtramck.

When they are talking about design limits they mean the limits of FCAs guidelines, not the limits of actually overheating. FCA has a standard somewhere that states “for every pound of GCWR you must be able to reject X BTUs of heat from the engine.” That’s going to apply across all vehicles they build and has a safety…

 My dad bought a manual minivan.  In 1985.  Since then not so much.

So we’re supposed to assume that rates for a 30 year old driver are representative for all ages?

When I first looked at it, I thought the switches were in the handle backwards not that the handle was backwards. Now I’m confused about why the handle is in front of the switches and not behind them like in every other normal car.

The old joke is that when a car company is sending out press releases for smallish investments in an assembly plant, that plant is the next one to be closed.

Capitalism in its current form is only the reason you can complain about capitalism on this website. Perhaps you can go back to writing angry letters to the newspaper, oh wait, those are capitalist too.

IMO, the worst part about this is not that the individual switches are not error proofed, it’s that the cheapest way to design that door would also error proof it. With two levers in the front and one in the back if you make it as one switch assembly it’s naturally error proofed. The way FCA designed it you need to…

On the other hand, if you could just chill out for 5 seconds and move to the right lane, you might have a better day.

Do you have any data suggesting otherwise? No? Then how exactly did you come to your conclusion?