“Low-integrity press” “Shame”... okay, he’s already there.

So is Musk taking a page out of Trump’s playbook where all flattering news is truth and anything else is a lie to be swept under the rug? Shame.

In fairness to the Prime, its fuel efficiency after the electric range is used up is way better than the Volt. For people whose trips are either quite short or very long, it makes sense.

No Michael, you are the one that totally missed the point regarding this BB/Ford thing. This is not about infotainment at all...

Trump isn’t a fiscal conservative. He’s barely a Republican.

There is none. A wall won’t keep out drugs or illegal immigrants. Drugs are mostly smuggled in by transportation and tunnels, and most undocumented immigrants since 2012 are people who are here working legally but overstay their visa.

MEXICANS CAN”T COME HERE AND PICK LETTUCE FOR 2 DOLLARS AN HOUR CUZ I DON”T WANT THEM TOO! NOW THERES NO WAY IN FUCK I”M DOING THAT JOB UNLESS YOU PAY ME 15 an HOUR AND EVEN THEN I PROBABLY WONT DO IT CUZ ITS LOTS OF WALKING AND OUTSIDE IN THE HEAT

How government policies affect the automotive industry is absolutely proper content for this site. Always has been.

What’s the upside to the expensive wall that warrants the many, many downsides?

This is news that directly concerns the automotive industry. And no, not by any objective measure would a wall/tariffs/anything at all be worth it.

They’re continuing to play the wrong game over there.

Yeah, no one bought the Civic when it came out.

Volt owner here:

This isn’t Ford’s fault (or any other EV maker) though. Standard 120V wall outlets in North America are only rated for a 15 amp current draw (sometimes 20 amps, but those aren’t as common).

I will also say that if the evisceration of the EPA occurs, America will once again fall behind the world in engineering capability.

It’s interesting here. In the land of free enterprise, the big three went crying to the govt.in the 70s because they couldn’t see how the Japanese could make a good car at a fair price without having cheated the system by dumping.

It is a scary thought, since it feels like US automakers have really turned a corner since 2008. In the 90's, there were hardly any class leading US products in any category (excluding trucks, minivans and SUVs).

You are citing some dogmatic libertarian websites. Free trade is freer trade. Yes. It does have fine prints. But almost all of them relate to dispute settlement mechanisms. Nations are sophisticated. They can restrict trade without resorting to outright tariffs. That’s why trade agreements are so wordy, to try to…

It’s as if huge and complex treaties like NAFTA have nuance and are not black-and-white, this-or-that, good-or-bad things, and cannot be summarized in 140-characters.

Real Americans eat KFC*

*With a fork and knife on their private jet and have their assistant tweet a picture of it.