The Charger EV weighs 1000 pounds more than the Ioniq 5 N. With the bonkers amount of power it’s bound to have, I’m sure it’ll toast the Hyundai in a straight line, but I am extremely doubtful that it will corner worth a damn. Torque vectoring and sticky tires can only defy physics so much when 6000 lbs of mass are…

You are the one bringing race into things when zero mention was made of it by the OP. Please kindly exit this conversation if you have nothing of value to add.

I’m confused that Midnight Purple made this list, yet BMW’s Techno Violet did not.

Honestly, does anybody even make a hatchback the size you describe in any real quantity anymore? Even the Golf is around 170 inches long nowadays, and if the ~180" estimate that the other commenter came up with is accurate, that would put the overall length of the R3X at around the same as a Subaru Impreza, Toyota…

The one exception in Michigan is if your vehicle is parked with no occupants; in that specific case, the insurance of the person-at-fault pays. For all other situations, you are correct.

This isn’t 1990, you troglodyte. NIO sells vehicles in Europe, and the ET7, the subject of this post, has a 5-star Euro NCAP safety rating.

To this day, I still find myself wondering what would have happened to SAAB had Koenigsegg’s acquisition of the company actually gone through. IIRC, the deal was supposed to be backed by BAIC, and we’ve all seen the good that Geely’s money has done for Volvo.

Meh, call me when they make a ~400HP version that a non-millionare can actually buy. They genuinely just need to put this body on top of the EV6/Ioniq 5 running gear, and they’ll have my deposit.

What about Alpha Tauri’s Bandai-sponsored Gundam livery?

Ok then how many miles per day do you think a large part of this country drives?

Automakers stopped making and selling small, fuel-efficient cars because people stopped buying them when gas got cheaper and loans became easier to get. Mass-market, low-margin models rely heavily on economies of scale, so once sales drop below a certain amount, automakers can genuinely start losing money on each sale.

Source for the $200B number you’re quoting? I previously did some “napkin math” on this entire situation, but I had to make some assumptions due to a lack of readily-available data in a quick Google search. I’m curious to see how your source’s numbers fit into the equation.

You do realize that dividing the entirety of Jim Farley’s (Ford’s CEO) estimated $21M total compensation across Ford’s 57,000 UAW employees would result in an annual salary increase to said workers of approximately... $368, right?

This.

The issue is that that UAW continues to harp on the CEO pay talking point like a broken record, as if CEO compensation is somehow intrinsically linked to the company’s ability to pay the rest of its employees.

???

Yep, agreed. Far too much sensationalism surrounding this whole situation that distracts from the actually important details.

Yeah, my napkin math was mostly meant to show that:

Keep in mind that “gross profit” isn’t actually the amount of money the company is making, however.

I did the math in one of these comment threads like a week and a half ago, and found that a 40% pay increase for UAW-represented workers would cost close to $3.5b extra annually.