A car manufacturer lowering prices of long standing models due to improving manufacturing and reducing build cost?? Its almost as if they’re not complete shit heads.

I’m not sure what he’s trying to get at here. It’s a price reduction probably due to a combination of reduced costs via production efficiencies, and possibly shuffling of options and trims. They’re always messing around with their trims and option packages. Could also be a modest attempt to boost sales, but it really…

Have you seen Camaro or Mustang pricing?

He’s just deliberately stupid about this.

I’m guessing a 911 variant, without actually looking in to it at all...

1st Gear: This is how EVs will win. The batteries and associated tech will continue to drop in price while improving in range and quality.

Yeah, I don’t really get Erik’s point either?  I honestly can’t tell what he’s trying to say.

It is again bending on price. Tesla spends a whole lot of time pretending that it’s not a normal car company but really, now that it’s past the whole startup phase, it is.

Yeah, Erik may be cooped up in his apartment doing nothing but work.  That will take a lot out of you.

I totally agree. Erik shit sucks right now, doubling down only makes it suck more. 

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My birthday is this Saturday, not at all looking forward to turning 36.

Boy, you’re going to be disappointed then when we kick the Republicans out in a few weeks and all that happens is we start funneling the money to different interests with little in the way of tangible results instead.

Dude, money spent on the car is money spent on the car. I look on new vehicles’ stickers and there’s the “DESTINATION CHARGE” big as life and twice as real listed.

They can source the parts from slave labor areas even if final assembly happens in a more conventional areas. 

You get it.

First of all, you are correct.

The problem is that Mercedes has virtually no competition in the 1980s. People wistfully cite the W123, but when the car came out, it was competing against the E12 and E28 from BMW and that was it.

The cheapest Benz should be a well built well driving high quality car that can cost a lot more than mainstream cars the same size. It should be more quiet, more comfortable, more stable and safer. It should be able to reach a higher mileage than mainstream cars while not receiving much more than regular scheduled…

Wait, so diluting your brand by selling cheaper cars is a bad thing?