US gov’t mandate - every new car under 10,000 lbs requires it from May 2018 and onward.

I think the series, a bit slow in some spots, was really great. It likely still only shows a portion of the effort that goes into something shorter than a weekly sitcom. Just thinking of the logistics of it all plus all of the other engagements these guys have on different projects is amazing. The cost of this video…

No reason to doubt a DSG lasting 10 years, the maintenance at a dealer will run you ~$375-400 to get you through each of the 40k service intervals though but he has the budget for this.

Same here, although I am guilty as well. I drive 2/3 of all yearly miles between our 2 cars with my ‘16 Sonata PHEV so I pull the average up but my wifes 3 row ‘14 Enclave gets terrible mileage when not doing straight highway. We lucked out that we bought hers in 2014 and gas prices have been low and will likely stay…

Yeah, same here. I don’t understand people putting free advertising up like that but they are free to do so.  The marketing people at those companies are earning their keep for sure.

Yeah, I am not a fan of this move and I am generally in line with some of what Trump is behind, just not necessarily the way he has gone about it. Tariffs were typically a tool that democrats typically supported and since I am in the manufacturing sector in the US, I have seen how they could be good or bad depending…

Just have to scrape off the YETI or SALT LIFE stickers and hit the trails.

As I am trying to stay neutral on all of this so one argument is that by forcing the imported good to be more expensive, shifting consumption to a domestically sourced material, ensures that the nation does not lose the ability to manufacture the item. In the short run, it can mean a supply crunch and a price increase…

It all comes down to how you look at the situation. Long term vs short term. The tax cuts help short and long, the tariffs hurt in the short term and have the potential to keep an industry in the US without losing the capability in the US, which also equals jobs in and that support that industry or its workers.…

Just remember that the same argument/excuse you are making is the same one that non-Obama fans used against him when he said the unemployment numbers looked better.  See you do have something in common with the other side.

Yes, the vast majority of people who post here are so closed minded and myopic on hating Trump that they don’t realize that the opposite party is just as, if not even more terrible. Trump just makes too easy of a target because of the way he acts and sucks all of the attention his way. Then again, this is what happens…

I still fully understand goals vs plans, I am nitpicking at the “plan” which is not backed up with steps that show how they plan on getting to that goal. For instance, what are they investing in? Existing companies, technologies already in development within GM, etc? I know they don’t have to disclose every tiny…

I am not a fanboy of Tesla but admire what they have been able to do over the years. As a person who works in manufacturing in the US, I really want them to succeed. They have a pretty solid core of fans/customers and the product is generally regarded as a luxury item due to scarcity (at the beginning) and high cost.…

Likely not that but the news here last week was that VW wants to release an EV in the low to mid $20k range. It will likely not have this type of range or power but that is no different than today where you pay more for more power.

No, I fully understand your point but you failed to see that my point was that those are the goals, you had responded to the post above saying that they were the plan.  Goal does not equal plan.

Wrong car for this fight.  Regals, current and previous generation, are designed and built in Germany.

This. Most of Cadillac and Buicks sales are in China and the recently discontinued CT6 plug-in hybrid was just dropped from the lineup in the US. That model was already shipping from China in very low numbers but it and the Buick envision have paved the way to have some supply from China. Doesn’t Buick only make the…

What you described are not plans, they are the end goal or ideal future state. The “plan” the person you are responding to in the post above is the detail to make this happen and to date, no one has figured this out and shown a true roadmap in deep detail as to how it is truly achievable.

Exactly.  In ideal weather and traffic conditions which are very rare, my EV range is not nearly as good as when I have to deal with traffic, even when taking the same route.

I pull down 40 mpgs as average in pure hybrid mode in my PHEV Sonata. might be high 30s in the cold winter or mid 40s when temps are an ideal 60 ish degrees.