You are comparing money vs stock options (Barra) to money alone. Besides the one at Toyota that gets most of the money is the president, and he already owns much of the stock.

Yeah, I never understood why this didn’t get more press. Could you imagine running a factory where the workers know they can’t be fired for being drunk on the job? It has to be a nightmare. 

The ones that are built in the US are the ones with the lower labor rates.

The salary is not that different, but the benefits are vastly more expensive. Especially with all of the retirees at Ford and GM. 

Counting benefits and everything, For and GM pay a lot more. But your right, Chrysler bribing the UAW lowered their costs to be similar to Honda and Toyota.

This is from 2015. Other than Mercedes, the rest seem relatively low. The workers at GM or Ford don’t actually take home more money, the difference is all in the benefits, and a lot of the benefit difference comes down to pension plans and the fact foreign automakers don’t have as many retirees to pay.

Because the shoe fits? I have always wondered why people defend multi-billion dollar unions that made billions off of the people they are supposed to be representing. Unions have so much money they can give away $400,000,000 to a single candidate in a single election without batting an eye. Where did they get the…

Is this advisable? No. Have I seen a friend do it with a knife before? Yes. It is actually the retrieval that is the tricky part. Hard not to look suspicious scrounging around in the landscaping.

There’s enough surplus Infinitis in my local mall’s parking lot to make up the difference. They should just have a fire sale to clear the inventory. The last time I drove through, people had already started stealing stuff off of them and no one seems to care.

When have Japanese factories in the US been unionized? 

Here is a story about it. Chrysler fired employees who were caught on camera drinking and doing drugs. The UAW sued and had them reinstated with back pay.

Chrysler fired employees who were caught on camera drinking and doing drugs. The UAW sued and had them reinstated with back pay.

IDK where those numbers come from, but most studies put them well behind Toyota.

It costs more for Ford and Chevy to make each vehicle than the other companies, even though they are using cheaper components, mainly because the employee costs are 44% higher.

I was thinking I have seen other studies that show no difference in accidents with increased speed. They seemed to indicate there was a ‘natural speed limit’ where increasing the speed limit beyond a certain point doesn’t actually make people drive faster.

A better example of branding would be Pop-Rocks. They would have been a hit except for made up bad press.

That was one of the terms used at the time. I will admit I left out an “i” in the word though. Also, I wouldn’t call something that was on the cover of both Science and Nature journals a work of a small minority of scientists.

E10 replaces Methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) with ethanol. Probably justified given the carcinogenicity of MTBE.  Though you may have a point on anything higher than 10%. 

Rumor has it Henry Ford thought hydrogen or some other fuel would be better, but it was too hard to deal with hydrogen at the time. It was just easier to go with petroleum.

US: We better replace this carcinogenic compound with something cheap and readily available, ethanol.