First of all, even if it WERE just coal plants, which it isn’t, the thermal efficiency of the internal combustion engine is very low. Having a self-contained little gas powered generator in each vehicle is terribly inefficient.

The Focus ST and Fiesta ST buyers were the one small bright spot on the horizon for Ford’s car sales. They were more affluent, and more likely to be repeat buyers. But, they were the exception that proves the rule. And even the good that you did by purchasing couldn’t undo the work of your fellow consumers. Point your…

Even popular cars like the Accord are going down in sales. It’s much different from 2008, and I think that we need to give credit where credit is due. Ford was forward thinking enough to not need bailouts, to not declare bankruptcy back then.

It’s your fellow consumers, full stop. No mystery, no ulterior motive, no conspiracy theory. When Ford struggles to sell 100,000 Focuses a year, but sells 300,000 Escapes and 750,000 F-150s, the market has spoken.

And these people that want smaller cars can buy the Ecosport or the Escape. They’re about as small, they get about the same fuel mileage, but loaded with more tech, make it easier to see, have better ride, etc.

The Focus is not “incredibly popular”. Go look at stark, hard sales data. They sell 3 times more Escapes than Focuses. And the ST? For all of the vocal minority here on the Jalopnik comments thread complaining, Ford can barely sell 12,000 Focus ST’s a year. Compare that to 300,000 Ford Escapes sold? 750,000 F-150's…

No, there isn’t a market for sedans. Even Honda got gut punched with the Accord. No one wants sedans of any make.

It’s not fast, though.

I think for the cost of 427,000 hours of labor at the national minimum wage (That’s 205 full-time employees for a year), I could recommission at least a few dozen 993 Turbo S. Literal and direct job creation. What a novel idea.

You are confusing sales tax and VAT.

So is OP the first person on Earth with these issues to find himself needing to go down the built-in stairs on the plane? Because ostensibly, this process has been like that for years, and somehow, against all odds, people with vision or motion impairment have been able to navigate the plane’s stairs without expecting…

If the image of Americans that you’re portraying is, “Help, I need help walking down a public set of stairs that everyone else can do so without issue,” then please stop representing us overseas. Please lock yourself inside of your house, and cover every surface of your home with bubble wrap.

If you’re going to bring up the NC, then you need to remember that it used the MZR engine, whereas the ND, as well as this, are the direct injection Skyactiv. The first ND uses the 2.0 and makes “only” 155 hp compared to the NC’s 170hp, but is significantly faster because of the usable torque. So you can’t compare the…

Someone just proved that they don’t know what an SMG is, and has just created a definition by which F1 cars are automatic, lol.

They don’t expand existing plants or bring new ones online because of the sheer monetary expense and effort that it takes. Plus, the risk of let’s say that they do, and in 10 short months, they have invested millions to bring a plant up to spec to increase capacity. What happens if Trump isn’t re-elected in 2 years,…

It’s not a gentleman’s agreement. It’s those pesky laws of physics. If I tell you to jump 30 feet in the air, but you can only jump 4 feet in the air, it isn’t some kind of tinfoil hat conspiracy. Machines and people can only work so fast. The only way to easily do it would be to relax quality control, but then no one…

It’s not greed. If I am selling iPhones, and everyone else sells Samsung phones. Suddenly Samsung phones cost $2,500 each because of tariffs. Obviously now, everyone switched to iPhones to save $1,500. I can only make 2 million phones per year. So, am I going to sell those 2 million phones for only $1,000 or am I…

This isn’t a true statement. It doesn’t even hold up to even the most casual scrutiny or freely available information and data about car sales. You could go onto a Ford dealership lot and find Fusions and Focuses that are spending tons of days on the lot before getting sold. Meanwhile, people are paying hand over fist…

You are absurd. These people signing these contracts are adults. They are legally able to enter into agreements. They are the ones choosing to overbuy. They are responsible for their own decisions. No one is putting a gun to their heads. These buyers that are spending on average $32,000 per new car are well within…

The whole crux of this discussion is the post above with the photo, that talks about how much more interesting cars like a base model 1980's Camry or Corolla or Accord are than cars that are the norm for “rap video backdrops” like the Bugatti above.