The first week of the first post college job I ever had, my car broke down. It was a 1989 Chevrolet Celebrity, and the transmission granaded on the highway. It would have cost more to fix than it was worth so I was on the hunt.

*thinks*

That Maryland response is the sort of hard-hitting journalism you guys stand for. Keep up the good work ... Thanks and enjoy your day!

That a halo wouldn’t have stopped.

Correct... because if it wasn’t an FCA vehicle it would’ve fucking worked

OMG racists!

Alfail Romeo...amiright?

Not to be contrarian - but I think the problem here is less the old “Italian build quality” trope (Italy produces a lot of pretty amazing stuff in an array of industries), and more a matter specific to FCA’s situation these days. They’re a bit short on funding, and rushed for time, and everything has to go just-so to…

It’s funny how compatible a match Fiat and Chrysler were for each other.

Ahhh, the beauty of an Italian car. With the build quality of...an Italian car.

Senna. He was killed by a suspension arm fragment.

You can’t possibly be serious.

You are only thinking in two-space. Consider the engine’s center of mass to the wheel hub. A Subaru puts it low, presumably beneath the hub. A typical car would have an engine mass center-point dead-nuts to the axle/hub. A Unimog is obviously high to the hub. This would suggest there are 18 possible configurations.

These people have all been fired.

As long as “autonomous” cars require HD maps to cross reference with what they see, they aren’t really autonomous, they are just slot cars on digital tracks. They need to see and react to their surroundings in real time, not rely on database updates on construction, etc. No thanks.

Yup! It’s still easier than some modern cars/minivans with a big V6 shoved into the engine compartment sideways.

On older vans, this was a huge advantage, especially for Chevys. The carb and distributor were extremely easily accessible.

That and I believe it shares a platform with the old Titan, so they probably didn’t want to redesign the entire chassis.

Dentists having midlife crisis who want to look like 1970s hoodlums are H-D’s primary market, they still push that 1970s redneck rebel image but even the dentists having a midlife crisis don’t want to cosplay as 1970s redneck hoodlums anymore.

As a 29 year old, my perceptions of Harley bikes is that they are overly loud, yet can’t get out of their own way - like an old fart can civic. The number of A-holes I have encountered reving the crap out of their bikes, yet are unable to go faster than a Prius, leads me to question their appeal or value.