The move may be a sign that EV demand in the near future just isn’t as strong as automakers were predicting.

You mean Tesla with the truck that doesn’t exist, and Rivian with the truck that costs $90k+?  Yea, they’re really heading toward domination.

This comes up every single time trucks are discussed.  Why do people on this site continue to act like new trucks are being used as trucks?  There is a HUGE market for people who want EV Trucks because they’re luxurious, full of tech, comfortable and give peace of mind that you can move furniture that one time for…

Correct, which is why people struggle with Fain’s above statement.  The UAW has been trying to unionize the Japanese/European auto makers for years, and they’ve never been successful because the employees don’t want it.

They’re asking for raises PLUS the reinstatement of COLA (tied to the CPI), which (if I remember correctly) both Ford and GM have agreed to. Not sure about Stellantis.

Subaru’s US employees are non-union, so I’m not sure I’d be talking up Subaru as some kind of bastion of non-UAW US auto manufacturing.

Ha! That’s where we’ve gotten to in America. Gun owners are so confused how to handle other gun owners and are so terrified of dying that they end up doing the wrong thing to prevent being killed by other owners doing the wrong thing.

To be fair, putting any sticker on your car the identifies your preference or personality toward anything is kind of a stupid idea. Political stickers, gun stickers, religious stickers, sexual preference stickers, stickers of your family and the number of kids you have, etc. All stupid. Just leave all of it off…

Also salaried for one of the D3. Feel the exact same way about our hourly people (as do most of the salaried people around me), but also have the same concerns.  Adding more uncertainty into the mix by randomly striking on a whim doesn’t help anyone.

My biggest issue with Chipotle isn’t the price or the ingredients. The issue with Chipotle is that they’re charging sit down restaurant prices for service that is on par with having your face spit in. Chipotle is always out of at least one item, if not multiple. Their entire staff treats you like a nuisance when you…

This pretty much nails it. It’s estimated that 60% of drivers in Detroit are uninsured (combination of low income city with ABSURD insurance rates). There are no vehicle inspections. The police absolutely do not care what you do on the roads. It is incredibly common to see something like a 1994 Dodge Neon with two…

IMSA and Indy Car that last few years have brought back my love of motorsport. IMSA in particular has been phenomenal, but some of the edge of your seat moments in the last season of Indy Car have been so much fun.

My first two thoughts were:

I don’t know how it is where you live, but drivers in Detroit have no regard for speed limits, or really any other traditional rules of the road. In addition, pedestrians in Detroit have little regard for the traditional rules either (you know, like crossing at crosswalks). There was a big opportunity here, especially…

401(k) with a match has been great for me, but it still counts on the performance of the market, which gets further and further from representing reality every day. That’s my biggest personal issue.

The mistake the UAW pretty much all workers made years ago was agreeing to 401K plans

Hopefully the good news for those kids is that a labor shortage results in companies competing for employee with better pay and benefits... but somehow I doubt that will happen.

Agree. I daily a Bolt EUV. It’s a great little car, loaded up with features. The key thing for me was price. I was leasing a Silverado prior to the Bolt, and a Sierra prior to the Silverado. I would have loved another truck, but EV’s trucks are both unaffordable AND impossible to get and a base Silverado ICE costs…

The other thing that it seems like no one takes into account is that the labor market as a whole will have less available workers in the very near future. I work at a plant for one of the Big 3, and the amount of employees who have been here for 25, 30, 35+ years is MUCH higher than people might imagine.

Who is paying $5,000 down on a lease vehicle? Especially an average priced vehicle?