I was a child, I was foolish, I thought a Citroën BX was the coolest car ever.

I love the economics of this. Can Haas take it even further?

There are three kinds of carmakers:

It’s extremely unlikely that any given truck full of margarine and flour would catch fire, but when one did, it killed 39 people; so we invented safer tunnel systems to reduce the risk that a burning vehicle in a tunnel would lead to many deaths. More sensors; first responders; drivable evacuation routes; refuges in…

Don’t forget bizarre Austrian hillclimb!

Yes, but which party is going to tell the court (or the arbitrators or whoëver) that there was sex in other places?

Yes!

Meh, if you really really need to own an expensive zillion-horsepower sportscar whilst living in a congested city, you can afford to pay part of the broader cost.

Isn’t there reporting bias with single vs multiple vehicle incidents? For single vehicles, maybe distracted or drunk or just too fast into a corner, there are solid reasons why many drivers wouldn’t want to report it, even if they get a bloody nose. But with a multiple-vehicle incident it’s guaranteed that at least…

Why add a new brand? The market is already crowded with too many brands.

A few million? That’s nothing, to the typical buyer. It’s probably 10% of their portfolio.

Valparaiso!

That V8 is magnificent, and it’ll run forever, and the whole car is just so practical, it’s got the extra space and the comfort and it doesn’t yell “Look at me!”...

Apart from stricter driver licensing and better public transport, Germany also has stricter vehicle safety checks, and also road design explicitly includes safety, and also enforcement of the existing rules is stricter. These all emerge from a broader culture of regulation for public safety.

That’s a fine Unimog. It could even make a daily driver, if you never need to travel over 50mph...

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Suspect or not, it’s an extremely standard part of workers’ compensation laws and in fact one of the primary reasons they were able to be enacted in the first place.

The truck industry has been consolidating for the last 80 years; there are economies of scale, and the world doesn’t really *need* 100 different brands. Just like the car industry.

Isn’t the “ProMaster City” a rebadged Fiat Doblo? (The differences in names and specs probably say more about the targeted audiences).