SUVs actually make me less confident thanks to their shitty dynamics, wide turning radius and poor visibility. Add in difficulty of ingress/egress and bus-like upright seating position, and you’ll never catch me dead in an SUV, unless I actually go off-roading. My 9-5 wagon has 72 cu.ft. of cargo space (which is more…

Hey, don’t knock light grey, dark grey, and grey grey.

Anything in the survey about how Americans are perfectly satisfied with 3 colors besides white and black?

Because it adds a lot of uncertainty to the market and it makes consumers think twice about making a big purchase if a recession is on the way for its economy

1st Gear: The backbone of China’s economy is cheap labor. Cheap labor cant buy cars and expensive labor kills the economy.

The first scholarly discussions of business cycles came in the very early 1800's. If people started writing about it then, you can intuit that ebbs and flows in a business cycle have existed since long before even that.

Was this their first ever trip in the car? 

Because it’s dragging on other parts of their economy, causing the market to drop.

What kind of car was it?

Your friend sounds like a boomer, too self-absorbed and stupid to plan properly for the future.

The issue is that their economy is centrally controlled. This makes China particularly vulnerable, as their government has a history of being heavy handed and fairly fucking stupid at the same time. A prime example is the one child policy, which exacerbated China’s issue with female births and has created a fairly…

The Palm Pilot was a device that met the needs of a lot of people in a way that hadn’t been done before. But its functions were soon incorporated into other devices that did more because of connectivity. Just like the Blackberry was ahead of its time as a two-way messaging platform - and then became jetsam in the…

It’s almost like this kind of stuff has happened fairly routinely for the last century in the worlds developed markets...

India is more of the gold mine for Uber/Lyft. Most people like being driven around and 80%+ of the population cant afford a car.

If we are diving into global economics for a moment, I don’t think China is concerned about this small slowdown, especially because their investments aren’t predicated upon unsustainable domestic growth.

What they need are longer financing terms.

Neutral, 1st gear, 2nd gear: China’s centrally controlled communist economy, not much unlike the rest of the globe, has been robustly boosted since 2010 by domestic access to vast, inexpensive credit but credit has natural limits without an accordant boosts in income. Domestic credit expansion (in China in particular) …

It’s not a box.

Honestly, I like it. I think Blade-Runner/Total Recall/Delorean retro-futurism is a lot cooler than the formless tacticool bullshit for red sweaty dads looking like thumbs with goatees that passes for trucks today.

Nissan is the king of being super competitive in a market, then letting their entry die on the vine. The Leaf is a good example, but the Xterra was an even better example. It’s poor sales at the end were a result of it being on the market for 10 years, but it was highly competitive in the class. Look at how many of…