Exactly, this applies to manufacturing in general, sure a company is always looking to maximize profit, but when people buy cheap offshore products instead of US ones the US companies can’t compete without doing the same thing. When you buy from Wal-Mart or now Amazon because of how cheap and convenient they are,…

I think the hope was that autonomy would increase in proportion to this shift, such that the car comes to you and goes back to park itself to charge or drive someone else. If that will happen fast enough is up for debate. You can’t afford the car, but you’re not really driving it so it won’t matter to most people. The…

Exactly, I have my own lift so I like working on cars, but I like working on them when I want to. So I like that the only regular replacement parts I have on the LEAF are wiper blades and cabin air filters, and the only fluid change required are brake flushes every two or three years.

At those specs and with their other EV on the way I’m guessing this is a supply issue, where they don’t currently have the capacity to build and sell them nationally, even Chevy seemed to struggle with that on the Bolt at first (and we all know the lengths Tesla has gone to to get battery capacity).

A decade from now GM should be good if they are serious about electrification. Even now, they’re technically the only automaker actually making an entry level EV with a range anywhere similar to a gas car in the Bolt.

Isn’t Trump’s political career basically so he can use the government to intervene in his own business?

Technically true because Trump only picks winners! If they lose it’s somehow the fault of someone else and they would have won if it would have been him or if we’d knock all this “democracy” stuff off and just proclaim him President and CEO of the Trump-USA LLC.

Poor people concerns aside, the problem is there really aren’t any EVs to flock to, so it would mostly just hurt everyone short term since there’s nothing to go to realistically other than more efficient gas vehicles, and the current administration is already trying to stop them from getting more efficient already…

Find one with the roof rack and you’re good to go! I personally hate what it does for the lines of the car but it would be handy for a set of skis or four since you can’t put the seats down. Biggest downside is the plasticky interior.

All comedy is subjective, Monty Python is no different, some get it and some don’t. If you don’t find the ridiculous funny, or take religion seriously then you will definitely not like MP. I probably wouldn’t find it as funny if I were watching it for the first time today as when I first watched it as a young…

I think that’s definitely driving “millenials” and probably a lot of Gen-Xer’s toward them (though most of the people I know with minivans are Gen-X, and I’d totally own one when the time comes). I’d add that we also have this “workout clothes as normal wear” thing going on, so the SUV fits into that image of a person…

Not only that but the outboard is the entire drive package, throw in a transmission that can handle 1000 hp and of course an axle and driveshaft and you’d easily have the same money, and even then it wouldn’t be designed to operate the way a boat motor does and under the same conditions.

The other one?

Plus the complexity of driving the rear wheels. If you used the same drive mechanism the boiler would have been mounted in the way of the load floor defeating the purpose, or required a long and even more complicated mechanism to drive the rear wheels from farther forward. Not to mention the complexities of driving…

The worst thing for a project vehicle is another project vehicle. Especially when one needs a ton of work and the other doesn’t. My Desoto sat for way too long not properly stored as my “3 year” restoration became 7 and more. That forced a lot more time and effort into bringing it back up to par later, and time is the…

I’m guessing there’s someone who wants them to sell this thing, so to make them happy they are, for a price they know they’re not likely to get.

Most of Europe also has very good public transportation partly because the countries are far smaller, providing an alternative to driving everywhere, most of the US does not.

That’s an overly broad generalization too. 1% cash back or a few airline miles just isn’t worth it to some people (it’s not to me), and the security of not having to worry about the liability of any debt obligation is worth that 1% to them. You’re assuming you’ll be financially stable for 3-4-5 years when you take out…

The current credit score only really shows how good you are at running in the hamster wheel of debt.

Hmm, dump all your small cars and double down on SUVs and Trucks. Somewhere the ghost of Sergio is laughing.