Weird flex, but OK 

I thought you ‘shopped a bus on top of an early Sebring at first glance. 

eh.... you dont.... audis were designed to be a nightmare to work on

There’s taking care of cars, and then there’s arbitrary loops that make daily living with a car a pain in the ass.

I kept up on oil changes and fills, pre-mixed, warmed it up properly every time I drove it, took it to redline every time I drive it (critical for Wankel health), and let it cool properly before shutting it off every time.

“Think of it as a 2-stroke.”I

I’d say an easier way to an enjoyable life is to drive something that isn’t a total PITA to own.  

Oh man, i came so close to buying one new. But then i didn’t think

The whole trade war is force them to stop...

1st Gear: another thing not often mentioned is that the current emissions timeline matches up pretty well with that of other nations, so building cars that meets those requirements allows for a larger global audience.

Right, after a non-apology they pat themselves on the back for giving $100 million to compensate for hundreds of deaths. Meanwhile they are paying out nearly 5 BILLION to compensate their airline customers that have been inconvenienced by the grounding. Why? Because the shareholder value of those companies must be…

Next week’s headline: 181 CEO’s fired by the companies’ board of directors.

Big Business CEO: “Wow! Stock markets way up, profits are way up! Look at that, the economy has finally turned around. Let’s release something new, marginally better, and raise prices to increase profit margins”

Typical librul thinking. Even though wages have not grown in 40 years, people adapted by having both parents work. The obvious next step is to eliminate child labor laws. 

Oddly, Ford was successful in the early years mainly because he understood that he needed to pay workers enough so they could afford to buy the product they were building. As a result, we got a middle class in the USA.

1st

1st Gear:

Neutral: Stop judging executives so harshly on quarterly results. Start looking at annual and longer performance windows instead, then adjusting their compensation accordingly — including holdbacks for certain long-term goals.

So batteries are just the answer to the environmental problem of ICE engines, just like ICE was the answer to horse shit in metropolitan ares. You are still trading one bad idea for another. The correct take is “stay home.”

I respect any automotive journalist that starts pulling fuses on his test drive, “just to see” what happens.