What is there to explain? Unless you have tons of people who have the experience, I don't see what there is to refute. It's not like I'm biased against Texas, but it's a serious logistical problem of trying to convince people to move with any company especially for actual experienced based professions like engineering.

Unless Texas is chock-full of experienced automotive engineers with 5+ years under their belts, yes... a brain drain is exactly what will happen. This is true of any place.

You don't replace hundreds of engineers, experts in their field and who have been working on parts for 2-3 years on a whim and not expect some issues with the transition.

For the entire tech industry? No. Many entertainment and tech companies have sustainable business plans. Zynga doesn't, since their existence depends on peddling crap onto the mainstream public- a notoriously fickle (and easily bored) demographic.

A better question is, did Zynga really intend to keep those employees by putting their talents towards games that didn't suck?

Much of the experience of owning a car involves how it rides and handles. You can't convey how a car's steering or ride quality is like over an internet review.

That sounds GREAT, until you are within sighting distance of a Ferrari. Then it's a 200+mph crash.

If that's the case, that's the #1 most environmentally damaging aspect of this car. At the moment it's not a problem because people tend to take care of exotics and they are low volume. But if future CF cars are made at mainstream prices and mainstream volumes, scrapyards are going to fill up extremely fast unless…

...It's still several times more expensive than use of aluminum and steel per lb. I'd like to see the i3 being made in Civic quantities first, at Civic prices, before claiming anything else. If anything, Ford's use of aluminum in the F150 is a more substantial step for mass production, and even that is fraught with…

As long as CF is still more expensive to produce, it will be a niche material. Especially as automakers are able to utilize more grades of steels and aluminum and construct lightweight cars that way.

It's like fiberglass, except potentially more brittle. You need the epoxy to actually form it into a durable material. It's also kind of pointless to use on its own because of how expensive it is to produce (per the video in the article)

The only thing I could see in that article is the re-use of CF scraps. But what about actual recycling? Aluminum and steel are extremely recyclable, with >95% of all manufactured metals recovered.

Titanium exhaust. Take flat sheets of titanium. Now fold it over into a cylinder. Weld. Now do that about 50 more times, and then start welding those cylinders together.

Don't forget: "RIDICULOUSLY AWESOME"

If you stretch that "few weeks" into "multiple years of tears and frustration" you might be able to come up with something close. Probably not.

The expected supercharged Hemi V8 is still going to be an iron block engine, but it has a good reason as the supercharger is going to be a big ass one (displacing more than most 4-cylinder engines by itself). So instead of your theoretical small engine with a super, it's going to be a large displacement engine with a…

At this point, I think the lowest is MB. But that doesn't mean anything from a quality or reliability standpoint either. Nor, as this whole fiasco shows, that automakers are capable of detecting issues that merit a second look and/or a recall. If it happens to the supposed quality/reliability champ Toyota, it can…

Yes, she was "Competitive Operations" engineering. If you were not part of the safety and quality teams, what are the chances you're going to be hearing about some sort of fuckup outside your department, especially if that compartment didn't address the issue seriously or tried to cover it up? With a company that does…

Guys... if you wanted to see the Renegade in various trim and wheels, just hang out near Chrysler HQ with a lawn chair and a cooler. There's tons at this point running around undisguised... the 200 as well.

It's not as bad on trucks because they STILL make fistfuls of bucks with every sale