Probably not. With all the billions that have gone into BEV investments, I’m pretty sure just about every brand is still waiting on the buying market to catch up to those investments. As long as the double-digit growth remains, they are likely doing well enough to keep course. 

I just seems like every few weeks there is a day where Jalopnik decides everything is now redirecting to the Root. I just give up on the site for that day and usually by the next day it is fine.

That sounds like the correct take. Makes me wonder if they should even continue Alfa in America or bundle that under the Chrystler name for the American market. With all the competing brands Stellantis has, it is hard to see it being worthwhile to keep them all. 

It’s wild that we have this massive business market that literally consists of buying a company and then sucking as much money as possible from them until it dies. Pure vampire capitalism. 

I feel like Maserati either needs to be a lot nicer, more exclusive, and regularly starting in the $200k+ arena, or it needs to compete head-to-head with the sub-$100k BMW/Merc market. I like most Maseratis, but can’t imagine picking them over any comparable Porsche, Lexus, BMW, etc. Under Stellantis, I’m not sure how…

After reading through this is made me wonder if they should try to make Chrystler the “GMC” of America. Make the luxury trucks/SUVs under the Chrystler, sell more affordable options under Dodge, and then prestige style sedans/crossovers under Alfa. I supposed that would eat into the attempts at the luxury Jeep market,…

Isn’t that a typical value of people’s data? As an individual, our user data is totally worthless. The value comes from a mass of data. Since cars can be driven by multiple people in a household and they get used for tons of different reasons, the data may actually not be all that valuable unless it can be tied to all…

Or some cashier kept saying they could and then laughed as they all got towed away.

Exactly this. They have the simplest process for booking/transferring. SW is a favorite of me and most of my flying coworkers because of that. If Southwest’s plan is to start chasing upcharges like the other airlines, then I might as well just use aggregator sites, which SW often doesn’t appear on.

Especially since the Maryland visits are just for part of the year. Uber even has a luxury option that I’m sure is very popular in the Northeast.

How does one win at formula drift? 

Every other automaker would be deep into the testing stage by now

Are they accountable to anyone?

I’m pretty sure most of those full width screens are in high end luxury cars, so will things like that actually matter to the makers or the people that buy/lease new? I’d be surprised if more than 25% of those buyers really cared about the car more than 5 years into the future, especially since I think more than half…

I graduated around the time it came out and I was so excited for a fun, efficient hatchback that came with a manual to replace my beater, only to be completely disappointed by it. 

Considering Dodge one of the great automakers is some solid ASS tech. There is a difference between being financially viable most of the time and being a great company. Dodge (and most of the brands connected to them) hasn’t been bought and sold multiple times over the decades because they are such an amazing brand…

The toughest part of this question is first determining who the great automakers are. Kind of hard to accept GM, Stellantis, Ford, Nissan, Hyundai, or Kia as being “great automakers” so much as they are “usually financially successful and sometimes make a great car” brands. With that, I’ll bring the popular punching…

Nooooooo. Those rotary shifters are awesome. They take up almost zero space in the front and I’ve never had an issue in multiple Ford rentals. When I need a big SUV rental, the Expedition is my go to and the dial shifter is literally part of that. The GM buttons are much more annoying to get used to, which puts the…

I’ve been seeing a growing number of small businesses with Mavericks (pool cleaners, landscaping, painters, etc) around town and some of my clients/contractors have been ordering them too. The Maverick is excellent for those folks who just want a truck bed to house basic equipment for easy access. 

While this car may be terrible relative to the best Dodge has offered, I have a lot of trouble accepting Dodge as a great automaker and voiding basically all Stellantis current brands from this discussion.