You really think we’ll get lower premiums?

So if that’s true, why do we have IIHS? With better safety yes risk is lower, but the insurance companies stand to benefit more with fewer payouts and still setting premiums as they wish.

The systems false activate all the time unfortunately, and during snowy conditions is a concern for me, give me a setting to disable please :)  But for the majority all for giving it to them.

Knowing how the sausage is made is right on the money. Even with validation testing and pre-production drive fleets it seems like something goes wrong in the first year without fail. Sometimes it’s a design issue that somehow eluded the DFMEA process and sometimes it’s a supplier quality issue. The product is only so…

As a fellow Engineer, this was my comment as well. You really have to work in the industry to understand all the crap with suppliers etc that leads to constant changes. In some cases, I’ve seen monthly changes for a new product in production, because of how rushed the project was in the first place.

For once I have to disagree with a McParland column.

I’m going to ignore the registration and just speak about the car.

“The number of petrol cars made in China this year is expected to drop by 9 per cent, according to Citi, while electric car production is set to rise by 53 per cent.”

It’s different when the CEO unambiguously claims that none of their things break, when they in fact do. If she didn’t make that claim, no one would care because, like you said, things fail.

Save the Tatas

The other ugly truth is that you can get every luxury a Land Rover offers in an any American truck for much less, except for the Land Rover badge.

On my way down “the auto mile” in Norwood, MA a month ago I saw at least 2 lots full of Teslas, mostly Model 3. These were parked several miles from the “store” in Dedham. Seeing that they are sitting on inventory of higher priced Model 3 cars is not good but based on what I saw locally, very true. They are tying up a…

for that to work they need some serious Model 3 word of mouth, which is less likely since they are killing the referral program. but who knows. people that have Model 3's sure seem to like them, as long as the trunk isn’t filling up with rain and the door sills seal.

Almost all of those Germans are dead, how long do you hold a grudge? Also the Japanese really were directly responsible for our entry into the second round.

Other manufacturers are already putiing out competitive and cheaper priced cars with the range to match. Tesla will have to keep cutting price to keep demand up amid the tax rebate loss, aand that will seriously hurt cash flow/profitability.

The only thing keeping me from buying a model 3 is price... But that being said 35K is still about 15K above what I would spend on a car.... I could technically afford it now but... I would rather spend money on travel, and investments.

I don’t think wages have dropped, more like those that earned a lot left(retired, fired, layed off) and were replaced by cheaper labor.

Add in the carb that “just needs a little adjustment” and the cracked windshield. This thing is not restored, it is a vehicle that some half-assed, unfinished work was done on. And yes, a wrap could be used to hide cheap, temporary, grind it off and Bondo it over rust repairs.

That would only work if I can get the car real cheap WITHOUT the cost of a battery pack.  Your way, the first time I need it, I get someone’s 5-year-old pack in exchange for my brand-new one.  No dice.

The point is, it’s been nearly 72 years since Henry Ford died, we can probably give it a rest. If you don’t think it’s time to stop bringing up Henry Ford’s (not uncommon for the time) now unpopular ideas, we should also talk about certain automakers’ links to the Nazis, and how FDR put people in camps, and how…