Those (soon to be discontinued!) E-Class taxis are still probably about 50% more expensive than a VW Golf (best selling car in Europe in 2019, before the rona supply issues), assuming that they’re ~10% cheaper than the cheapest German E-Class configuration.

The value proposition for E-Class taxi fleets comes from the…

Jerks appear in every population, and you’re always rolling the dice.

“The “rudeness” is a difference in cultural norms”

Most of this applies to non-city folk visiting places like NYC, Boston, or San Fran (dense, popular tourist destinations).

What impressed me most when I went to Germany and Italy was the amount of languages I heard people speak. It makes sense since Europe is smaller than the US and there’s various languages in the surrounding area.

Kind of a waste. The AI needs to be applied to the sales staff. AI might not be perfect, but at least it never has bad breath.

Pretty sure if I wanted to pay to watch ads, I would have stuck with cable.

same.

If the current price I’m paying becomes the ad model, I’m out for good.

They’re both in the top five of EV sales here and well ahead of any Tesla.

If you’re income level doesn’t get you to $7500 in federal taxes, you shouldn’t be buying a $50,000 new car. 

I really want to like this, to the point I would open my wallet, but it’s just too damn big. lose 4" of width and 2-4" of length so it would be friendlier to urban parking in older neighbourhoods and it would make so much sense. Also the large wheel/tire diameter is just a waste of packaging space. I know dropping the…

Especially when you see how poor of cars are the ID line up, and the struggle it is to produce them. 

The Camry is actually a higher end product than the Rav4. Historically the Rav4 sat in as the Corolla’s class of CUV, though there’s a Corolla Cross now. The Camry’s equivalence in CUV should be the Highlander. Toyota’s CUV and sedans seem to be 1/2 class mismatched at the moment, where the Highlander is at least 1/2…

If the current (European) Focus was introduced in 2018 or 2019, when the present generation was discontinued (IIRC at the time the Focus was discontinued in America), 2025 would probably be about the end of its likely production run anyway. Which would mean that it’s the end of that generation Focus and time for a new…

I’m looking at the specs of the Focus they sell in the EU and the biggest problem I see is there is no electric or plug-in hybrid version.

Ah, so it wasn’t an altruistic move. I was wondering why she did the right thing, for once. Now I know.

Love when people just kind of trot out nativist economics that they’d otherwise probably dislike. 

Oh fuck off with your virtue signaling.