Ex dealer service manager here. Dealers taking payouts to give up their franchises is a real thing - Capitol Cadillac (a long running standalone Caddy dealer in the Maryland DC suburbs) did that a few years ago rather than spend the money to handle EVs.

And the old dealer model of high service labor/parts margins is…

That doesn’t mean much, if anything - Idaho is practically a rounding error when it comes to new car sales compared to California, the #1 new car market in the US.

Yeah, this winter I-80 was closed a lot, but from ‘18 to ‘22 I did a fair bit of of driving in the snow on that highway, 80 miles or so at a time. AWD wasn’t a must when I was new car shopping for a spacious highway car in 2018 to replace my beloved but noisy and uncomfortable ‘13 Fit Sport, but all the TourXs came…

These right wing companies just can’t win, they will never be pure enough for these hard right wackos and their followers without alienating a much larger swath of the general public. Now that the loudest hard right wackos are fully making things up to get outraged about for social clout, it’ll be interesting to see…

As a Californian who semi-regularly drives I-80 through the Sierras in winter - and over the Grapevine and other mountain West mountain passes, I *really* appreciate the AWD in my TourX. It’s saved me from getting out and chaining up in a blizzard at least two dozen times since I bought the car.

That yellow CT5V blackwing is absolutely tits. I know what I’m buying if I ever hit the lottery.

Tarantino is 60 now, jeezus.

I mean, to be fair the last Ryan Reynolds movie I was aware of was Freeguy, in 2021. Now that I’ve looked it up, he did 4 movies after that and I never heard of any of them (Red Notice, The Adam Project, Spirited, Ghosted). And I’m not 60, or close to it. Also not a huge streaming…

For $43k (SLT, 4X4, trailer tow, heated seats, yikes) my preferred configuration is to keep driving the 2005 Ram 3/4 ton I bought new back then for the three weeks a year I actually need and use a pickup for towing and hauling. The other 49 weeks a year I’ll keep driving the Bolt or the TourX, both of which cost less…

Nah. BT,DT, fuck that, unless there’s no choice.

35 years of riding here, three of those as my only transportation in the Northeast all year round and two more as my year round commuter from NJ to Manhattan.

Riding in the rain sucks, even with the right waterproof gear, and your chances of crashing in the rain due to…

Used vehicle sales are unaffected.

Real question:
How old, polluting, unsafe and worn out are the African market cars and trucks these US market cars are replacing?

Because, seriously, if an old 2004 era OBD2 US market car is replacing a 1980s junker built with a carb and no emissions or safety equipment, these cars built to US safety, emissions and…

Suuuuure. Proof, please.

To you, sure.

I didn’t say that you said “everyone” I said “not everyone”.
Get it?

Not everyone, in the US or in Europe. If you live in the city a small hatchback is great. Fitting big stuff into tiny parking spaces and garages sucks. One of the reasons GM will sell around 80,000 Bolts this year.

Can’t you buy it out of the lease?

Exactly. F that guy, keep him in jail where he belongs.

Nope, he’s been arrested and charged, and is in jail.

*You* think it’s ugly. I think it’s just fine, and so do tens of thousands of other people all across the nation, just in the last few months. You want ugly? Buy a Tesla. But again, gazillions of people have bought Teslas in spite of their looks and will continue to do so.

Oh, there has been that. And more to come