There was a guy that would come into the gym that completely reeked. My friend was so disgusted by it and by other members complaining, the guy got his membership cancelled. I get it, some medications can make your sweat smell but JFC!

1st Gear: I’ll be turning 45 and I’d look into getting a Chinese car if they were available. Competition is good, if you want a protectionist economy, look at Brazil and look at how expensive vehicles or even electronics over there are. The other thing, this reminds me of older people that wouldn’t buy Japanese cars…

It’s a LOT easier to register an American truck over in Europe. It would be more difficult register a Euro vehicle here over emissions.

I do agree with you. I also don’t think it’s too bad a thing to be able to see pedestrians as we hit them. /s In all seriousness, if we could reach an agreement on homoglation, everyone would benefit but I think that’s a pipedream. 

Honestly, I wish we’d just merge our regulations for safety and emissions with the same ones Europe has. Canada would follow suit and with more standardization, prices would come down and the consumer would be the winner.

You mean the path we’re currently going down? Hell, we’re rolling back laws so kids can get to work! Bring on the cheap Chinese cars.

Not worth the time to engage the trolls.

Damnit, stupid autocorrect. It is “pear” but thanks for being a dick about it.

I wonder if Magna might be obligated with that EU law. I guess time will tell. What a shame because I really think the Ocean is attractive. I guess I’ll have to wait for Rivian’s offerings.

No idea how things work in Europe. I mean the tooling is there. Something similar was done when Saab went out of business (I know they’re not part of the EU). Look up Saab Parts aka Orio. I’m just spitballing here though: https://www.saabplanet.com/the-swedish-government-sells-orio-ab-the-exclusive-global-supplier-of-s…

I wonder if Foxconn will end up buying the rights to the Pair and market it under their own brand.

Since it’s built in Europe and they sell that model over there, I wonder if this might apply and alleviate things because it means spares would be stocked: “The often called “right to repair” regulation makes it mandatory for manufacturers to have spare parts available for at least 7-10 years after the last unit of a…

Yeah but at least with the Astra, you could still get parts from Opel. 

Buahahaha, the hate flows strong with this one. You’re not wrong though!

Hahaha

Depends on the trip. If I’m going overseas, I check in luggage. I’m not the psychopath that monopolizes storage because they’re too cheap to check their luggage. Or just admit you don’t want to pay the luggage fees. :-p

I’m sure a non-compete agreement would say otherwise (unfortunately).

I used to think Scotty Kilmer was interesting until I realized all the titles for his videos were clickbait. My god, he grates on my nerves.

I’d have to say I disagree. It seems like the strategy Ford is using that if you’re not an extremely early adopter, you’re getting screwed because prices will go up. The F-150 and Mach-E have gone down but that’s more because people are shying away from them and the stealership markups tainted that. With the Maverick,…

It also doesn’t help the pricing shifting higher than what initially was offered to potential customers. Ford priced themselves out. Look at what they pulled with the Maverick, the hybrid option was standard, and now it’s optional so they can charge extra for it all while increasing the base price of the vehicle. It’s…