Compliance EVs are the problem. They need to make EVs people actually want to buy.

I was unaware that the 5 mile trip to your gym is 100% representative of the global auto market

He’s right. Tiny hatchbacks are a hard sell in the US as are EVs. Combine the two and you multiply the probability of success (i.e. it shrinks exponentially). The brown manual diesel wagon crowd has moved on to impractical EVs.

Excellent! When can they start teaching humans?

To a degree, it’s a sound strategy. Someone willing to pay whatever is going to be an easy sell. Better to focus on that more profitable customer and let someone willing to work for a better price go elsewhere.

I think that should be regional specific training. Where I am the strategy for winter driving is to stay home if you can. If it snows, the roads will be clear in a few days.

I will say this- the Blazer looks really good in person. Don't know why GM didn't figure out a way to build it here

I don’t remember going on the highway at all for my license test. It’s admittedly pretty flaky.

People bitch about the US’ useless licensing standards but I’d say it’s the near non-existent or politically driven traffic law enforcement. No need for strict licenses to get people to stop left lane camping/tailgating/doing stupid shit. We have laws on the books for that that just aren’t being enforced.

Why are those the only choices?

The Mustang is a top selling coupe in Europe, and an inch here is the same there, so yes, in Europe too.

Even badge chasers want that V8 rumble.

The C63 is basically the size of a Mustang, so the notion of an engine of that size in a car that size isn’t crazy at all. Plus packaging isn’t the issue here, nor is handling, or really anything else besides MB appeasing to environmentalists and the EU.

My only point was it seems like a lot of them shouldn’t have opened in the first place. IIRC Toyota has never closed a plant down.

Why can’t they modify the gas guzzlers? That’s the low hanging fruit. Switching from the Pentastar V6 to a turbo 4 hybrid system would be huge for their fleet.

1st- I don’t have an exact count, but I get the feeling GM just has way too many fucking plants. Why is that? Seems it would make more sense to have a handful of huge facilities, at least in the US. A shotgun blast of plants makes for much worse press during a shutdown and more complications with labor on both sides.

I unsubscribed from VinWiki when Ed tried to convince me that supercar owners should be exempt from property taxes everyone else pays. I’m paraphrasing, but his logic was that if they had to pay property taxes on the cars they couldn’t afford them. Can you hear my palm contacting my face from there???

Cocaine crash barriers!

Fuck Alex Roy and Ed Bolian, in no particular order.

Exactly. “Tesla kills Germans” generates more clicks than “Too Much Leasing Impacts German Residuals” though, so here we are.