Back when memeswere young.

True, but they have to still completely gut the factory and start nearly from scratch with new machines and the like. 

Their biggest expense it probably tooling.

Who?

The 3 star review is on point

Toyota/Mazda are spending $1.6 billion for a plant, which includes constructing the plant itself.

Rivian bought a disused plant, so they don’t have to worry nearly as much about things like pouring foundations, building walls, etc....

In total there are about $700M in incentives for the Huntsville Toyota/Mazda plant.

Way more fun to smoke a Mustang in a 35 yo minivan than it is to do it in another performance car:

$3.5 Billion doesn’t seem enough to me. I lived in Huntsville, Alabama area for years. Toyota/Mazda are spending $1.6 Billion to make a factory there. I’ve been where that factory is going. Outside of a BBQ place and a cotton gin, there was not a lot there. The land could not have been insanely expensive and knowing…

A friend in high school had one of these. In the window where the automatic shift indicator normally lives, there was an LED labeled “Fuel Miser” or something that would flash when I thought you should shift. 

They resemble bovine nostrils.

Those are grille pills.

OK, I love to crap on Elon but the Model S and Model 3 are good looking. Now, the Model X and truck shaped overcompensator I will totally agree on.

Elio will be here any day now. 

I can’t help but wonder if this company will ever ship a product.

We’ve had so many promises and so many billions of dollars spent on vapour....

That’s the first time I’ve heard that about the manual trans. Seems apocryphal, since the 5-speed was the exact same thing used on the K cars and it was available from the first model year. In fact, until 1987, the only choices were the 5-speed manual or the extremely inefficient TorqueFlite. There was a Getrag manual …

came here to post the same, feeling satisfied.

Is that a Mitsubishi Diamante? (Damn, I need a life)