Tears For Lower-Tiered Startups

First gear: Ford is cooked if they think a quarter or two of cash is gonna keep them floating. There isn’t going to be any V-shaped recovery this time.

What is the point of saying that only essential workers and businesses should be operating, if you are going to designate any lobbyist’s industry as essential? America’s political bribery and corruption is costing lives, again.

Or a RAM?

Considering all the press given to declining traffic at dealerships before all this it shouldn’t be hard to keep distancing requirements in place and use a rotating skeleton staff in the store.

Neutral; Yes, I’m OK with dealers selling cars, however I think they should be by appointment only.  That way they can limit the number of people in the building and have enough time to clean every car that returns from a test drive.

If I can get a dildo from amazon shipped to my door during these trying times, why can’t I get a dodge?

the fastest sneeze ever recorded in a laboratory was 103mph, so looks like they might have outrun the virus.

I don’t believe Jalopnik or any other serious car site has ever endorsed street racing.

The previous EIC of this site didn’t seem to have a problem with the cannonball...

By your logic then, every single person who has ever broken the speed limit has been involved in a street racing incident.

The Astros World Series of Cannonball Runs.

Street racing implies you are racing against other people on the road, which clearly they were not.

I think the idea that it’s somehow worse to do this during the coronavirus is quite wrong—yes, a crash will pull resources away from the virus, but a crash during “normal” times could very well kill a family or other innocent roadgoers. Minimizing the risk of that kind of incident seems to at least balance the…

“If literally one thing goes wrong—if the team needs to call for help or a tow truck, if they get stopped, if they crash—literally anything goes wrong here and these guys would be pulling resources from an otherwise already overloaded system, not to mention potentially increasing the risk of contracting coronavirus by…

Can you expand upon your feedback?

Of course he doesn’t want workers from the Big 3 to go back to work, they will probably just make more of those awful trucks instead of the Honda Fits that every single person should be driving.

It can be, but companies have a hard time continuing to exist if they continue to spend cash while not bringing any in.

Could probably just shorten that to ‘automakers are bad’, which feels like a pretty constant message around here.

Well, some people do say that the best way to become a millionaire is to start as a hundred millionaire and race cars.