This is how a P.R. guy would spin it:

Tesla C’est Moi.

-Elon Musk

What does this mean for the Supercharging network? I keep hearing people who bought a Tesla saying that the Supercharger network was a large part of the reason for their purchase.

LOL!

Yeah, I think I read Anthem when I was in college and a couple of her straight philosophy essays. The latter were enough to convince me she wasn’t worth wasting too much time on. OTOH, reading about the salacious details of her life and other hypocrisies is a guilty pleasure (if undertaken in moderation).

So, nudism is not my thing, but this article seems a bit... er... unhinged?

You think it’s bad now... just wait until the first Mars colony.

I’m going to get the bad stuff out of the way first. As spec’d, my press car had an MSRP of $165,000 plus $1,495 destination.

Ah, you’re right. I had to Google it in any case.

Convertible, auto-trans, 245 HP... this car seems tailor made for somebody’s mid-life crisis.

I think Ayn Rand’s novel The Fountainhead would have benefited from having its protagonist named Fred Beans. I know I would have much preferred to see the phrase “Who is Fred Beans?” scribbled in random places when I was in college.

Yes, they axed their cars to focus on trucks and SUVs, but the stupid decision not to offer a $25k corssover is inexplicable until you read interviews with auto exects proclaiming the low volume high margin strategy. Were Ford creeping in the direction pre-pandemic? Sure. But the Pandemic and associated supply chain…

Daweoo ceased to exist over 20 years ago when the bankrupt company was sold to General Motors. The Trax is built in South Korea, but it is built by General Motors.

Yeah I also make a nice living. I paid cash for my 95k mile, 2011 Acura TSX about 6 years ago. Still going strong at 180k miles. At the time the idea of paying $30,000 for a car seemed crazy to me. Still does, I must admit... just not as crazy.

Thanks. Somehow I missed the Maverick while perousing the website. Ford is smart to offer that option, since trucks are popular among their customer base, but they should really have a cheap car in each segment if they want today’s young car buyers to be tomorrow’s oder Ford car buyers.

And what does that have to do with government mandates? Honda sold 200,000 Civics alone in 2023. Were they exempted from these onerous government mandates?

LOL, yeah. My 2011 Acura TSX has 180,000 miles and is gonna have to keep me moving until my kids are out of college!

The government didn’t mandate that Ford kill off all of its affordable offerings. Ford was simply following the cynical “build less, charge more” pricing model that a number of car manufacturers thought they could get away with in the wake of pandemic supply chain issues.

The cheapest new Ford you can buy will set you back over $31,000 once fees are factored in, fully $10,000 more than a base Chevy Trax.

He will find a way to file a lien against a correctional officer’s F-150. A few days later he’ll get shanked in his sleep when the door to his jail cell was “inadvertently” left unlocked for the night.