Ford beat Wall Street estimates pretty handily.... and even turned a profit in Europe. Are you still certain it was brutal?

(granted, they took a beating in China, but did narrow losses there)

Henry Ford is still dead.  He was a pathetic person, no doubt, but we’re supposed to hate Ford now because of someone that died decades ago?

Oh give me a break - GM is producing well beyond “compliance” numbers.  If you want to argue they’re only making compliance cars, then logically Tesla is doing so as well - if it weren’t for selling credits, Tesla would likely have gone bankrupt long ago.

Yep - Tesla kept pushing on the # of reservations they had to prove demand. But that didn’t account for the elasticity of that demand. In other words, it didn’t account for the price people were willing to pay.

If people bought in to the $35k promise (and I know MANY who did and put down reservations), but were faced…

Name a domestic car company that was “in the red for decades”....

“Stratosphere”? LOL....

It’s $2.60-$2.80 per gallon for regular unleaded around here. We’ve got older sedans averaging 24 mpg combined and 26 mpg combined. Let’s take the one at 24 mpg. It costs me about $900 a year to keep fueled at this point. A Model 3 would cost me about $200 a year in electricity ($.12 to 0.07 per…

Better that than the guy I see driving around town in an F250 with the plate RAM TUFF

No, no. no.

He loves the strep.

Clearly must be an ENT doctor.

A University of Cincinnati police officer pulled over someone for having no front plate -then shot him to death when he tried to drive away.

Being pulled over for no front plate happens, but only when the police are expecting to be able to nail you for something else.

“The debate that unfolded in Ohio wasn’t smart, exactly, in any case”

NOTHING this back-assward state legislature does is ever smart. Including this transportation bill.

Included in it are flat annual fees of $100 for a hybrid vehicle or $200 for a plug-in hybrid or electric vehicle.

I get the idea that those vehicles…

At least people remember you exist...

“as the WSJ notes, cost is a big factor, as new cars average around $35,000,” 

I don’t buy that argument for a second. You can get some really freaking nice vehicles brand new off the lot for under $25,000 EASY. The fact that other people are buying outrageously expensive land yachts doesn’t mean you have to fall…

“I tell you what, coach - we can knock the price of the Trucoat down if you sign this letter telling colleges what a great rower my daughter is, we might be able to strike a deal...”

I don’t see either of those Cadillacs as bad at all for styling.  But I also look at them and don’t see anything that looks more luxurious than a base Mazda.

True.  But that said, even a Fusion SE with leather isn’t far off of luxury cars from not that long ago.  Get a Titanium and it can be hard to justify the price premium to go to a Lincoln.  Same thing can be said for going Toyota->Lexus, Honda->Acura, etc.  Mainstream cars with high end packages are really nice…

Uglier than a Lexus?  Put down the crack pipe, mister...

That’s great it gets better mileage - and proof that the Trump administration’s attack on fuel economy standards was stupid.

But does this improved mileage come at the cost of performance like the current Camry? In other words, a completely gutless engine coupled with a transmission with such severe lag and…

1st article: Ford cancelled that plant. (And Ford has actually closed plants in Mexico since the 80s, fwiw)
2nd/4th/5th article: No increase in Mexico capacity involved there. Slight bump in output as a result in a more popular model being built.
3rd article: Take out the extremely outdated info on the cancelled Ford…

NO, FUCKING DUMBASS, it say “GM to build new vehicle at plant in Mexico”.

It goes on to specify its the Ramos Arizpe plant, which GM built in 1981.

This wasn’t building a new plant - it was putting a new vehicle in an existing plant, which requires investment anywhere you do that. Good lord, this isn’t that hard.

And the…

Hey dumbass - investing money into a factory is normal and not an indication of expanding capacity to shift production.

Hell, the Ford factory near me has received $1.7 BILLION in investments from Ford in the past ~15 years.  They haven’t expanded production one bit.  If you don’t invest in your facilities, you die.