I’m just hoping that the horrors that they have planned are muted by what is sure to be incompetence and infighting at every level. 

the next 4 years will be awesome, I can already tell!

There are currently almost 300 used Tesla Cybertrucks for sale on Autotrader right now...

I always wanted an Audi... and now that I can afford one, I’ll never get one.

I just assumed it was! There should be a list of carmakers who don’t do this so they can be publicly shamed

I have to admit I do kind of dig that interior.

Now that Jalopnik has been sold to Static, how much longer do you think they will be on the Kinja platform? When other former G/O media sites were sold, they were on Kinja for around 3-6 weeks after the sale.

It is wild to me that this is their actual line up on their website

Your comment about GM reminded me what a so-called “sales and marketing expert” told us when one of the (dumber) companies I worked for paid him to come in. He started his spiel with how you can only sell things that people already want and need. Then the audience (including a lot of just out of college kids) gave him…

Car companies have forgotten the lesson that GM taught the world in the 1950s.

Stellantis and VW are suffering from the same problem. Executives that make cars they think people want instead of making cars that people actually want. Nearly the entire lineup of both companies is just... meh. There’s practically no innovation, they’re just regurgitating garbage.

No doubt.

Reality is that for ANY airplane part, a HUGE part of the price, and most of the markup over an otherwise all but identical non-airplane part, is the certification and paperwork costs. 

AA doesn’t charge to check-in your bag when you’re at the gate.

Have you flown O’Hare recently? They’ve really improved bag times on domestic flights. International flights are awful though. 

CVT’s are great. The problem is that bad CVT’s (or bad programming) are really terrible (looking at you Nissan).

Volvo did that for a while with the V60 and V90, where you could get one if you ordered it. Would be nice to see more companies offer that option; but I suspect that won’t be happening. 

Yeah, I’m calling shenanigans on that one. Soldered joints aren’t prone to failure due to vibrations. Every module in the car has hundreds or even thousands of them. *Unsecured* joints are prone to failure due to vibration, particularly badly created joints. Soldering isn’t that hard, but there is some skill and a bit…

This seems more like a “catalytic converter test pipe” than a Gllock switch sold as an airsoft accessory on Alibaba.  (every gangbanger in Chicago has one)

Can’t say I’ve ever had one of my own solder joints in an automotive application fail. Maybe people just don’t do it right?