On a $10,000 car, you take your chances/don’t really care what it is. On a $1,500,000.00 car, that fucker better be what it is supposed to be..

It wasn’t california that held them, it was chevrolet. That was the same time they launched the s-10 and they didn’t want to canibalize s-10 sales. Dad bought his as a new 2 year old truck too.

My dad had the 2wd version of this truck. I took it to test-and-tune night at the drag strip and it ran a 21.50 @ 60 mph in the quarter mile....beating on it as hard as you can beat on something.

I think it is commercial touchless car washes that use the stuff.

The previous generation accord was kind of a lemon because of the transmissions.

.....designed by the guy that used to make christmas tree lights?

It is because of tree-hugger legislation...not because consumers actually want to buy them.  Obama’s fuel rules are a bitch for cars as we know them.

because nobody (ok. very, very few) REALLY wants electric cars.

Trading a Model S for a model 3 seems like trading a 3 year old big Lexus in for a new Corolla. I just don’t see it.

Which means GM is fucked when EVs don’t sell.

Tesla has to walk a fine line, build something desirable, but not so desirable that upscale buyers don’t move down to a Model 3 

When the first 400,000 “already have buyers”....maybe.

Semis are low volume production and sell for a high retail price.

The manufacturing lines are designed for a certain number of people (labor dollars per hour)/overhead costs. Those costs don’t reduce themselves when the production line is slowed down.

You mean a Nissan Leaf?

An auto job used to be a good job.  Those guys all bought houses, drove new cars, and took vacations.

The whole idea with the model 3 is to be a “real auto manufacturer” and pump out a bunch of cars efficiently. Mass production processes work best when they run wide open. Ready or not, 5,000 cars a week are entering the market.

But if people don’t buy them (all of them), you end up with the stupid shit the auto makers did a few years ago. They ran factories wide open to improve “efficiency”...and had unsold cars parked all over the country. Having your cash tied up in unsold inventory, that can lose lots of value when the model year changes,…

tell your wife she is irrational....

Either way, the MFer is dead and has been dead a long time. He can’t fix shit.