You’re most likely correct about Fields. In an industry where it takes 3-5 years to develop a vehicle, any changes implemented by a CEO won’t be seem in the product for 4-6 years.

In what universe is it a sound business strategy to abandon a significant portion of your revenues and unit sales and gift it to the competition? With the insane hope that car buyers will simply switch to SUVs/CUV’s? That isn’t happening:

Elon v. Pedo Guy

How functional is that hatch vs a civic with a standard trunk?

Negative, Design at FCA has a ton of free reign in terms of creativity and basically clash and/or collaborate with other groups (engineering, cost, legal) before their ideas may get toned down a bit or even changed all together. In all likelyhood this came from two possibilties:

Just a heads up: Designers and Engineers are usually not on the same wavelength.

That’s a lot of design changes to just put into a sticker package. Should look at home at the local mall.

I wouldn’t call Waze fast by any means. Especially when opening, finding routes, or rerouting. I mean when I’m checkiing new routes sometimes it takes long enough that I just passed by the turn I needed for the fastest route. And it’s a drain on the battery if you don’t have a charger.

Yeah, I think they have to realize with their size and resources (even with Tata’s backing) they can’t compete at that price point. They’ll either need to completely change their product strategy (EVs? Purely Crossovers?) or try to start moving up market to actually make a profit.

Whoa, 6 gears? Jalopnik must have hit the rowing machine at the gym.

People will hate, but cool versions of boring cars is undeniably better than a world purely made of boring cars.

I think, all things considered, it looks pretty good. I mean, I think the auto-world is better with it than with just the boring base highlander. Plus, look how many Explorer ST’s Ford is selling. There is a market for people that need this type of vehicle but don’t want to sacrifice everything they’re potentially…

I’m actually shocked they’re still spending money on development for this thing. I figured they lost all interest after pulling the GT’s out of IMSA; not to mention plummeting profits.

Nissan is training it’s fleet to leave the country on its own come Brexit later this year.

Well F1 banned them from changing their helmets for the entire season. So there’s that.

But you then you have to ask yourself, what is the point of open cockpit, open wheel racing to begin with? And there isn’t one really. It just hearkens back to a time when that’s how all racecars were. It just is what it is and a choice by the organizers to either keep or not.

It should be noted that is a static test, but their ballistics test was a good test of the impact resilience.

From a performance and comfort perspective, you’re probably right. All the new features that set a 2010 vehicle apart from a 2020 vehicle are the infotainment and safety features like adaptive cruise control and various sensors to allow you to maneuver your new land yacht.

Makes you wonder why he’s stopping at the Texas border and not just jumping straight to Mexico.

Last year, I also had a string of really unfortunate events happen that really put me in a financial bind. I feel you man. It’s not a good feeling. I had been saving for a while and even with that buffer, I blew through all of the liquid capital I had. So I’m just building everything back at this point.