This is just giving more fuel to the Dexit folks.

“Why offer cheaper cars when we can just offer longer loans for more expensive cars?”

Eliminating less expensive options is a great way to lock out younger buyers from your brand before they have the job/income to afford your more expensive options. Instead, they will become loyal to whatever brand their first car is... which isn’t going to be yours any more. Seem like a very short-sighted solution, as…

Correct take.  You don’t shrink yourself to greatness, and margin doesn’t pay the bills if there’s no revenue to apply it to.

I would be legitimately interested in an AWD focus that wasn’t the RS

If they can sell them at a profit, no matter how small, while keeping up with demand in higher margin market segments (read: SUVs), they are leaving money on the table. It’s a focus on profit margin over gross profit. That looks good to the shareholders, but they’re missing the bigger picture.

The Asian companies are making and selling these vehicles for a profit. If Ford and GM can’t do the same, they need to just get out of the business. Long term, they can’t bank on the SUV and truck gravy train. Eventually that will hit a dead end too.

The underlying problems with Ford and GM are still present. 2008 and…

Cars have always had very small margins on them compared to bigger vehicles, but they were important because they still sold well and kept younger buyers into their brand until they could afford their more expensive products. I recently bought a Kia Niro because Ford or GM didnt offer jack shit for decent vehicles at…

Most of my coworkers drive trucks or SUVs, I drive a Golf R. When we go out to lunch and I drive they comment on how jealous they are that I can just park it wherever with basically no effort.

Yeah, as someone who has no desire to buy a crossover/jeep/cuv/suv/whatever the fuck we’re calling them on account of how some marketing person threw a new word out and it stuck...I’m probably going Subaru when I replace my Fusion. Thankfully at 6 years old, it’s probably got plenty of life left in it unless I get in…

US consumers: haven’t had a meaningful raise in decades.

“This isn’t analysis because there is nothing to Trump, or to his politics—no room for subtext, no broader strategy beyond whatever seat-of-the-pants pandering is most immediately apparent, nothing but the wheedling and undignified and insatiable vanity that is always right there to see.”

A good part, although not all, of the vitriol toward Xhaka, was the fact that he was having a nice little stroll off the pitch when being substituted instead of running off. Would it have made a difference, no, but geez, make the effort at least.

Listen, I agree with the sentiment, but why do folks think the G/O dickwads are reading the comments at all? I’m hard pressed to believe they have even visited Deadspin, based on the ridiculous staff requirements that were leaked...

The 2019-20 Warriors roster is bad, but as good or better than the 2015 Cavs (without Kyrie and Love) that LeBron took to 6 games against Steph/Klay/Draymond. Change my mind.

All the video money went to ads and “Antiques Shitshow.”