When I was in law school, we were taught that tort law is written in blood. FMVSS and caselaw are the result of people dying or being seriously injured. School buses are required to meet FMVSS, and there have been several examples of manufacturers being held liable for vehicle designs that met or were grandfathered…

Here’s another fact: Vehicles sold in the U.S. market are safer than vehicles purchased in any other country. Why? Because in the U.S., FMVSS and relevant caselaw requires the vehicle to reasonably protect you EVEN IF YOU ARE NOT WEARING A SEATBELT. No other country requires this level of protection. This is why many…

1/3 of all traffic fatalities are due to driving while intoxicated. 10,955 people died in traffic accidents due to DWI in 2018. More people were killed by drunk drivers in 2018 than have been murdered by assault weapons in 50 years. We now have a whole segment of society that wants to defund the police and buy drunks…

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…

It’s a relatively clean example of the bottom of the barrel. It needs a new top too, about $2500 worth of work, not an especially desirable model year, and no A/C. This might be a $5,000 car for someone who has a rusted and busted GT convertible and needs a “body transplant” to rebuild their car and flip it for…

I’ve said it before and I will probably shout it into the wind for years to come. The only things keeping GM and other legacy manufacturers from selling only EVs is lack of compatible fast-charging infrastructure and market demand. If the government came in and told Tesla that they were breaking off the Supercharger…

Soooo...which manufacturer mass-produced the first modern EV nearly 20 years before Tesla was even a thing?

Seriously, is this the new direction of Jalopnik? You claim corn is a “menace” on rural roads and cite six deaths nationwide in 13 years due to people not slowing down and looking around the corn and beans? Is this the investigative news section from the Shermer High School newspaper?

I’m not sure who all is left at Jalopnik or GMG in general, but Erin in particular has recently been fond of reposting articles from other sources and completely misinterpreting the facts in her editorials. Analysis of incidents involving aircraft are better left until the NTSB has issued a report, especially for…

1st gear: The body shop at Lordstown is worth $1.6 billion just by itself. I don’t know how they’re going to convert that little plant to body-on-frame, but where there’s a will, there’s a way. GM certainly didn’t want to do it.

I mean, other than “dry cleaning your lungs” (RIP Kelly Preston), the worst thing that could have happened was the Endeavor lands on Florida Man’s Boston Whaler, Scarab, or Bayliner. I’m sure the capsule would have been fine.

This had to be way more fun than sculpting the new Silverado.

Neutral: Yes, and subsidized for certain income levels. An $80,000 BEV should be subsidized in cash incentives down to $20,000 for anyone with less than $1,000,000 in personal assets or $150,000 in income. TBH, we are also going to need MAJOR government investment in the power grid to make it happen, along the lines…

*sigh*

Nice Price. When the V12 dies, drop in an iron 6.0 LS-swap from a GM van and call it a day for another 300,000 miles. It’ll bolt right up to the 4L80-E and double your fuel economy.

I really hope it has a midgate. I’ve been looking at purchasing a 2013 Avalanche or Escalade EXT because they ride better than a regular crew cab 1/2 ton due to the coil springs in the rear, and this would probably push me over to the EV side.

I have the non-hybrid version of this, the Mazda 5. Same car, different engine and trans, no battery, but it has the same brakes and is a bit lighter weight. The brake calipers are even stamped with the Ford logo but the car was assembled in Hiroshima. The brakes were trashed by 45,000 miles and they’re about to be…

First gear: Wentzville Assembly produces the Colorado/Canyon trucks and Express/Savana vans. The trucks are not the problem, it’s the demand for the vans. They added a third shift to handle van production, so if people aren’t showing up to work, the coachbuilders who build ambulances aren’t going to get their stock.

I’ve been voting CP all week. Finally you post something worth a NP, and it’s a hacked up Geo? Still NP, especially compared to the CPAP Audi yesterday.

2nd gear: But I thought Tesla “gave away” all of their patents for free use by anyone?