No more Fusion, Focus, Fiesta...the root of the problem is that Ford is simply running out of Fs to give.

You sound fun.

Yeah, but Hillary had an email server that was not very secure. CHECKMATE, libturds.

Tesla’s new 24/7 production rates are jaw-dropping!

Car prices go up each year (which is expected) but wages have been flat for decades. It’s credit that is keeping the economy rolling. We just gave the rich a massive tax cut and they chose to buy back stocks and sit on it rather than “trickle”. Something’s going to have to give eventually. You can’t have housing,…

As a random comparison against a, arguably, more niche vechicle, the Jeep Wrangler sold 190k units in 2017. In the US alone.

This will be an unpopular opinion. Mustangs are ungodly uncomfortable, and it’s designers should be beaten for creating such an ergonomic abomination. The mystique of being a driver’s car in any sense is crap.

Lyin’ Guardian (very overrated) is trying to say we discriminate. Wrong. Desperate for clicks. Sad. We will win! People are saying this.

For real, Alanis, there’s enough Dodge contempt in this post to fuel the takeover of a third world country.

Am not Dodge bro. Would still bid on this.

I know I am outnumbered on wanting real history, I loved watching dull dry documentaries to learn of things, if it piqued my interest could go pursue it further in books on my own. But now I know my easily $50 item is only worth $15 to a pawn shop(actually knew that already as have used pawn shops to help get rid of…

Even the History Channel, formerly a source of acceptable historical fare, is almost all staged pseudo-reality and mostly entertainment crap now. Unless one is intellectually curious there is less that you are confronted with learning or seeing now.

Your issue is the “reasonably”. I bet a bank would loan you $40k on an engineer’s salary (of course this depends on your other liabilities). A bank would loan me $40k, and my salary would be on the low end for an engineer. I can’t reasonably afford a $40k car, but I could “afford” the payments, if I were willing to be…

AND the Honda buyer’s neighbour can quit working at K-Mart for minimum wage to go work at the steel mill for $20 an hour.

1) in·fla·tion -a general increase in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money

Ok, but $9,000 MY1996 cars are not selling for $30,000 now. A car that was $9,000 (ie a Geo Metro) is similar to a $13,000 car (Mitsubishi Mirage).

Economic protectionism is ALWAYS short term, because you can always find ways to cut costs.

The only jobs it creates are ones in old shuttered factories - because no company is going to build a billion dollar facility on the premise that these tariffs are going to last any length of time.

So you get a few hundred union jobs here, but increased costs for everyone which causes sales to drop and costs a few…

But the price for those (now domestic) goods goes up, because they’re still more expensive to produce here. Since the manufacturing capacity doesn’t already exist here, demand outstrips supply, and the prices climb even more. Money doesn’t grow on trees, so people can afford less goods and the standard of living…