You sound like you still don’t have a clue how accounting works but still love to spout out about it online.

Let’s consider your Boston example. It’s not really directly related to the UAW issue here, but let’s consider it nonetheless. Any physical equipment will be depreciated over a number of years. It will be less…

1) No, you do not count the legacy cost as a cost of building a new product. That is a liability you have already incurred. If you try to apply that cost to new products, you’re not only violating accounting principles, you’ll also find yourself deciding not to make much of anything, because any product could look too…

1st: As with most product defect claims, when the word gets out to the public, you’ll get a bunch of complaints rolling in, most of which are nonsense from people hoping to cash in. But despite the majority of them being bogus, there were real claims of actual faults in Toyotas.

My parents had a Camry back then. They…

DAMN RIGHT

$20k compact?

Hell, you can get a brand new Ford Fusion SE for a fair bit less than that.

Two MAJOR problems here -

1) It is grossly inappropriate to consider legacy costs. If the company decided to break the union and laid every single UAW worker off and replaced them, they would STILL have to pay those legacy costs. They don’t escape them. Those costs were incurred years ago, not today. When looking at…

Assuming the person backing in knows where the back of their vehicle is.  I’ve seen more than a few people pull back until they bash in the grill of the vehicle behind them in a lot.  They know where their sides are, but not that massive tow hitch or their rear bumper.

1) Obama didn’t deserve the Nobel

2) Trump didn’t get N and S Korea to do jack shit.  They’re just as likely to kill each other as they were 3 years ago, despite all the photo ops he’s given them.

First off, even your source doesn’t support your “a lot more” or “$2000/vehicle less” claims. You’re looking at $57/58 vs $48/49, with all of the difference being fringe benefits. To get to $2000 per vehicle with a $9 fully loaded wage differential, you’d have to be using 222 man hours of labor per vehicle.

A full…

Reality check for everyone -

The number of original buyers still owning the car after 15 years is not exactly an indicator of quality or reliability. There are far too many confounding factors that aren’t tracked. Things as simple as the typical buyer each brand attracts - ie, someone who only views a car as an…

Your numbers are complete bovine excrement.

Ford and GM’s labor costs are not significantly higher than Toyota/Honda (Chrysler is actually lower, btw), nor are they less productive.

Ford has ~2.3 times as many employees in the US as does Toyota, yet they sell the same number of vehicles here. It isn’t a productivity difference in the plants - Ford simply builds a higher percentage of their vehicles here and has a hell of a lot more white collar jobs (engineering, R&D, etc).

As are most vehicles sold in the US.

And when you push for removing state support for higher education, the logical conclusion is higher tuition... which means less money for millenials to actually spend, which means they can’t afford new cars...  So instead of blaming them, maybe us older folks should take some blame for demanding tax cuts paid for by…

Neutral :

1) Demand that Jaguar return to distinctive styling. You used to be able to see a Jag and immediately identify it as one. They were a bit stodgy, but they were classy cars that had a distinct ID. Now they’re barely distinguishable from Audi, BMW, hell, even Acura on the outside.

2) Take my golden parachute and…

“If the car otherwise runs fine, just fix the leak.”

Or don’t fix it. My 06 Fusion has a leaking valve cover gasket. Everytime I pay someone to do something maintenance wise, they try to upsell me on some ridiculously overpriced replacement of that gasket. It isn’t pretty with that leak, but there are a few important…

It really isn’t underappreciated.

It got poor gas mileage for a hybrid (not much better than a normal compact sedan).
It had poor acceleration.
It had mediocre handling and skidpad numbers - seriously, the Fusion was almost identical on that last measure.  For a midsize sedan, those are great numbers.  For a small car…

“though for some reason the American-market ones eliminated the small back seats that other markets had and replaced them with a strange dual-storage bin thing that sort of resembles twin in-car toilets.”

The reason is likely simple - those rear seats would likely have failed crash tests pretty badly. No headrests? No…

How much is that to repair accident damage vs. part failure - because there are people offering repair services for far less.  But they can’t fix a broken lens...

Arduino Nano would be more than enough processing power - but matching the signal the body computer is likely looking for to know that nothing is burned out could be a pain. But that may not be necessary if you don’t care about a warning message or light on the dash.