I’m only a capitalist when it’s convenient for me and fits my narrative, dammit! 

But weight! For highway and in city driving!

Counterpoint to pretty much all of this: the average consumer doesn’t give a shit. They just want a car that feels good to drive (which the IS/RC tend to be), looks good, is pretty quick, and is a nice place to sit.

All of these CEO letters to the dealers feel like a cheap marketing ploy. “Look, we’re trying!” with no actions being taken. If any of these automakers made an example of even a single dealer, the rest of the dealers would fall in line (or do the “I dare you to do this to me” bullshit, which hopefully results in them…

No, that’s in the US as well. And people want to lump Hyundai, Genesis, and Kia dealers together but Kia dealers are a whole special level of bad. The Stinger was marked up over MSRP and required jumping through hoops to test drive in a BUYERS market.

Those MB cowards need to bring the A35 and/or A45 hatch here. Since Audi won’t bring the S3/RS3 hatch here, and the Golf R interior controls are total garbage, someone needs to step up!

Middle school shit except they have huge audiences and way too much money so it devolves into potential legal battles.

Have you sat in the new GV70? Same platform, similar price point, miles ahead on interior design. 

Does an interior facelift count? The Genesis G70 interior is laughably bad compared to every other Genesis now on the market. The exterior update is nice! But the interior looks like it’s from a totally different automaker by comparison these days.

I hope the kid at least gets his money back from the other dealer.

Slay The Spire is an easy recommend... if you don’t already have it on your phone, or pc, or xbox game pass. 

Oh. Now it makes sense.

I will never understand muscle car buyers.

What’s the grace period for a company to stop having shitty manufacturing practices? Exactly how many decades do they get?

As I stated, it was because he took all of those subsidies, got super rich from it, and is now advocating for no one else to get similar subsidies to make EVs. That’s a douche move.

Nah, most of them are just plain terrible people. They aren’t fucking attention seeking edgelords constantly trying to be “cool” and pushing out their bad takes on the world, only to then have their idiocy shared with the world across every news outlet. If you want attention, you’re opening yourself up to all of the…

Will he actually pay it back? Doubtful. They were subsidies and not loans, and big companies do everything they can to avoid paying taxes to the US government (see: Amazon).

1. It’s pretty well documented.

Many reasons:

After Elon made even more money on the back of government subsidies, it’s convenient he thinks they should end. He remains a colossal douchenozzle, and I wish his idiotic ramblings weren’t “news” on a regular basis.