“My variable valve timing just kicked in my good lad”

Problem is, and not to toot my own horn but I am an example of this, there are a lot of smart and capable young engineers that get relegated to do a lot of bitch work and they yearn for something more technical. Now some of this bitch work does need to get done but these are a types of people that like to their labor…

“The illusion of innovation” - I really like that phrase. I work for a startup that has struggled with a real physical product, made here in the US, that essentially nobody else in the world could replicate (well, they could potentially look at our patents and try to figure it out). This product is essential to…

Any brain worth draining would take a look at what 5 year’s salary buys you housing wise in suburban Detroit vs. the Bay Area and laugh at the idea of money being a draw for Silicon Valley.

Your interpretation is not unreasonable.  It’s a bit of a longshot lawsuit but quite frankly FCA is probably up to exactly what GM thinks (and it’s just nigh impossible to prove) and the author is being juvenile acting like it’s totally absurd

jalopnik’s just dumb—this isnt absurd at all. GM isn’t doing this on a whim; the feds are still investigating FCA and multiple FCA employees have pleaded guilty related to this scheme and are currently in jail. Answers to your questions:

If the evidence is there — and it sounds like it is, based, if nothing else, on this article — they should have their day in court.

They have wheels!!! 

Those two look nothing alike. 

I hope Cadillac’s ambitions for its electric program are modest. Tesla sold about as many cars globally last year as the Chevy Equinox sold in the U.S. alone.

This would be the viewpoint of someone who chooses not to look past their own nose to see what’s in front of them. 165K Americans are dead, and millions more are infected by COVID-19. If it takes a tad longer to buy a freaking Corvette because of a pandemic, so be it. 

The fact that these Corvette people are whining about their Corvettes being delayed either live in a bulletproof bubble or are seriously lacking situational awareness. Look around you! 2020 is a hellpit of sadness and uncertainty. Millions are in serious danger of getting evicted. This is not the time to throw a fit…

So, Erik, would you care to share exactly why you believe this case is absurd? Every single post you have made regarding the case has been a hit on GM, yet you are obviously not privvy to any documents within the case that have not been publicly disclosed. The parties haven’t even completed discovery yet and FCA’s…

People are already in prison for what happened with these labor negotiations.  And now the FCA employees who got sold out by their union are going to sue FCA. This isn't simply sour grapes. 

No, Sergio was not dumb; but his goal was to clear all debt off the FCA ledger to help with his future Merger (TM). He didn’t get to CEO by not being willing to ask for a dollar or two per hour spread out over 40k+ UAW workers at FCA plants

In turn, GM would not have brought a lawsuit based solely on the discrepancy in…

No one outside of the industry is even remotely aware; its barely even a blip in normal business newspapers and the general buying public have no idea.

And the claims aren’t outlandish - it doesn’t take much for Sergio and UAW leadership to agree that they will have significant daylight between the negotiated price for…

The Feds as recently as March reported that their investigation is still ongoing. They just arrested Gary Jones THIS YEAR. He is one of the biggest beneficiaries of the FCA-UAW illegal collusion. So what has he been up to, you ask?

No, I’d rather not talk about imaginary bullshit like you listed. I prefer facts.

That’s the kind of shit thinking that crumbles under even a few minutes worth of basic research. “Asleep at the wheel” as they engineer a new lineup of full EVs from the ground up that will be profitable from the get go....

“what in the last few decades points to GM being able to do anything like this competently?”