I don’t doubt the validity that allowing blacks to buy their vehicles helped save Cadillac, I’m simply suggesting that there are claims made in this piece (as well as the original) that aren’t actually backed up with any proof. That’s not exactly great journalism.

I could see these being awesome in relatively narrow use cases; things like parking garages. Outside in most of America (well, the world really) it seems like the elements would really shorten the life of these. Add in snow plow risks in ~half the US and suddenly these don’t seem great.

No it doesn’t. It also makes a large claim without much backing it up, though, it is a bit clearer in the reasoning behind Dreystadt’s intentions behind the move. It wasn’t to improve sales volumes, but rather, an attempt to directly capture a bit more profit.

You’d think this article would have some better numbers. Maybe a few years of sales numbers, and then sales numbers to black people over those years. I’m not doubting it’s true, but what the fuck is the point of a whole entire article if virtually none of it backs up the headline. The headline could have served as the…

Chevrolet says a “base” Bison is a hair over $60k. Seems like the Ranger Raptor is the deal in the segment at $55.6k; I would have thought for sure the Bison would have undercut the Raptor, though, is it possible the “plain” ZR2 is a better comparison to the Ranger Raptor?

They are virtually non-existent in Upstate. I haven’t seen one in a good 10, 15, maybe even 20 years. They used to be more common.

As much as I love Spa, Silverstone is a better option in my opinion. It’s typically the best race of the season.

The freakin’ glove box is accessed via the screen.

Admittedly I said most are tied to that guy. But the others are:

The Y and the 3 have the longest pro/con list of any vehicle I’ve ever done.  So many good things about them, but simultaneously so many bad things.  The catch is that most of the bad things seem fixable by getting rid of just one guy...

However, women consume less life support than men and they don’t suffer from an endless partial erection in zero g like men do.

Doubt.

To be entirely fair, this is just one aspect of space travel. I’m certainly not a NASA administrator or anything like that, but I’d suspect that you’d need to take a lot more into account than this single study to determine that.

I don’t understand the logic between offroading and the corner lights. Like, what if I am offroading, why would I suddenly want the corner lights!?!? Why can’t I just want them because I think they look cool.

I’m not saying OEM’s make zero changes between model years; I’m saying Tesla’s changes are larger.

I don’t know what Tesla does on a yearly or constant basis

Dude, price alone proves how wrong you are. Sure, it’s lighter and sportier feeling than the bigger Harleys, but that’s almost always been the case when anyone takes on Harley. They make something lighter and sportier, and most Harley buyers don’t give a fuck.

Most OEM’s update vehicles yearly too

Two people are saying two different things.  You are saying door close to door open, someone else is saying (basically) wheels up to wheels down.  While both aren’t great, the second scenario is drastically worse.

I wouldn’t call the styling “dated”. I don’t think it’s great styling, but it wasn’t/isn’t dated. It’s just not the greatest and somewhat bland.