Literally zero people disagree with you.

The only reason dealers still exist is because they lobby to exist.

“But dealers provide so much value by helping the customer navigate the scary and confusing car buying process”

I would add in a 10 year period to phase out alphabet soup bullshit names and give vehicles real names. HR-V? More like Honda Havarti. They get to keep the 3 old letters, but have to add in enough for a real word. 

DING DING DING we have a wiener.

I’ll take a topless Joe Biden any day of the week over...

Yeah not cool to have your face shoved in your own poop.

Time for this one again:

Not sure how they’d write it (article or headline) without making it political, since it was a politically motived move by the current administration. They pushed something not even the auto industry at the time (at least the majority) was asking for. I don’t see a way that reporting on these regulations and their…

remind me to never get on your bad side.  you’re quite... original... with the punishments.

It could be... fortunately this site is crosslinked to the onion and I can respond with topless Joe Biden.

Nissan says Hi.

2nd Gear: I didn’t think Musk could out-douche himself, yet here we are.

The only trickle-down economics that work for Trump involve Russian strippers.

What a shock that giving companies(or letting them keep) large sums of money without any formal conditions agreed to leads to the companies not following through. Who knew?

“Neutral: If you were in charge of our regulatory landscape, What Would Your American Auto Industry Look Like?”

He didn’t lift the regulations that need to be lifted: the stupid 25-year import shit and the different-not-better US standards. If we signed on to the UNECE standards, the 25-year shit would be moot, and it would allow companies to make one car instead of two.

No big surprise here, we all knew that from the start. Most corporations used it to buy back stocks and pay big bonus to top execs, as expected.

I disagree. That interior is awful. Too many patterns and shapes and other distractions. It looks cramped and difficult to get to various controls. If I have to take my eyes off the road for even a second to adjust something in the moral course of driving, that’s bad. Even with cool mood lighting.  

The “old way” is not as profitable. Companies design cars with a finite component life and technology that will become outdated = more car sales and lower production/development costs. The competitive landscape is much different as well. When the W123 was in production, the only real competitor was the E28. Audi was…

“I don’t want your fancy technology and opulent screens” he said, as he typed on his thousand-dollar portable computing device. He pined for the days where arguing on the Internet meant nobody in the house could make a phone call, and the bulbous monitors were 800 pixels wide as God intended.