Have you written a piece on the nuts and bolts of having a used car inspected by an independent and trusted mechanic before buying it? It’s daunting advice.

Tesla’s definition of Production is “a car traversed the production line and was exchanged for a form of money with a person we shall call a ‘customer.’”

I don’t know. I think they’re at least as interested in screwing the rest of us as they are in screwing President Obama.

They’d like to remove their exemption, because they have means and don’t need it.

Next best thing to being born to wealth is sucking up to it.

Well, if your path to the Presidency is to be similar to the current officeholder, you’re off to a good start.

If you have a soft spot for G1 Durangos, is this NP because you want to save it? Because I would think this lukewarm mess would just make you sad.

Platform, and platform sharing, are pretty loose terms.

The data doesn’t support your characterization of a rush in 2015. In fact recovery was steady year by year — light vehicle new retail sales per year:

The numbers for 2014, 2013, and 2012 were upticks too. And those folks are among the 2017 buyers. Point being the new car sales figures over time don’t themselves suggest a cliff.

Cadillac at least understood the second part of the alphanumeric point: to differentiate types of product (cars vs utilities) and to place them in an inherent hierarchy.

While there are some troubling tea leaves elsewhere — flat or declining incomes cannot be ignored — this “losing streak” is itself not troubling.

They say existing owners responded positively and it brought new buyers into the fold.

The Acura beak seems a pretty clear example of willful ignorance. Whoever came up with that just refused to let it go. When it first appeared, almost everyone hated the beak, so they tweaked it. People still hated it, so they made it a little less prominent. People still hated it, so they dialed it back a bit more.…

But after a decade of trying the beak, Acura has finally admitted what most of us knew at first sight: for a volume model, generically inoffensive beats distinct when distinct is revolting, and the Acura beak is revolting.

I remember when House of Cards strained my suspension of disbelief.

And to ratify convention-proposed Amendments, the state legislatures don’t need Congress, or state governors, or the courts, or the voters.

They couldn’t pass a bill on the thorniest entitlement issue they have or likely will ever attempt to address. It’s foolhardy to label that a “can’t even.” They’ve made regress on other issues.

The thing about an LS swap with a kit into a basically-new car is that you’re no longer talking about cheap pick-n-pull fun but a significant investment. An investment like that has to justify itself against a C5 Corvette.

IIRC the Corvette has gone back and forth on this a couple of times.