Frankly, it’s the Marketing Department’s own fault. They’ve been selling this idea of what a car IS and what it MEANS to own and drive it. Which is all BS. Then they have the gall to be offended when people get mad that they switch the message entirely.

1st. Gear: Normally I would be on the side of governments letting free trade do it’s thing and leave private enterprise to the laws of supply and demand.

In other news, carmakers are hiring 6-year-olds to name vehicles.

Dieselgate fine was $2.5B in the US. This was a fine for $120M. Dieselgate was for actively making a “cheat program” that allowed the car to meet emissions testing requirements but used different programming when not in the emissions testing pattern. This was a fine for emissions-related reporting errors. That’s the…

It’s not just a misunderstanding about how the stock market works... almost every negative Tesla comment in here shows a lack of knowledge about what the company does and what technologies it is working on. Tesla batteries are supplying power in Australia and to many American’s homes... Tesla solar has the lowest…

This seems like a lot of work for little gain.

All for “LS everything” but this seems silly. Point of LS is to introduce a demonic possession into something underpowered. A swapped model S would be slower, less powerful, and have worse traction. 

So then they’re making another Assassins Creed game.

From what I have experienced, color anodizing is most commonly type II, sulfuric acid anodizing. Soft anodize. You can scratch through this coating with a nail clipper file. This type of anodize is what we might see on a window screen frame. Is it Type III, the hardcoat anodize that is the one that is credited with…

Yup, and Amazon hit 3600 P/E ratio in 2012. When a company flips from negative to positive profits, P/E ratios are often out of whack until they scale a bit more in the profitable side. This P/E ratio for Tesla doesn’t really say as much as people are assuming.  I’d be glad to have bought Amazon in 2012 during their…

Starting to get an irrational hatred towards Singer vehicles.

If you can’t afford to pay cash, you can’t afford that car. Easy. A long term car rental (lease) doesn’t change the reality.

Tesla’s stock is a bubble, but that doesn’t mean that the company isn’t around for the long haul.

I can’t help but think they are parting ways because Ford only makes one car now.

Which is why there needs to be an additional weight tax (not just “gas guzzler”) on these behemoths. Anything over 4000 lbs needs to help offset the added wear and tear on infrastructure: make it some portion of a percent for every 100 lbs over. Need a truck fleet for your business, there are tax write-offs for you.…

None of this really matters unless you are an automaker CEO or shareholder but in the vein of nature is healing, nature is healing.

True story from an ex-boss. He was by far the nicest person I’ve ever had as a boss. Just a wonderful guy. How he moved into management was interesting.

 I turned my AdBlock off just so that you piss off with this bullshit “journalism”

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This looked like fun but I refuse to click through a slideshow. This is Jalopnik, not Popsugar.