You are correct, but the average meat-bag doesn’t think this through.

The RBMK design at Chernobyl would never have been legal in the west. Horrible design, operated by people in a horrible fashion, without any reasonable safety systems.

But the average joe doesn’t understand that.

Fukushima would be a better example,…

Honda didn’t buy back any of their millions of defective automatic transmissions.

Why the double standard?

Honda sold defective transmissions for much longer (and many more of them), yet they didn’t do anything more than Ford has done (btw, repairs should have been fully covered by Ford)....

Ford should have to fix them up to a reasonable age/mileage, but the rest is absurd, IMO...

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Not all transmissions failed, and based on CR data, Ford managed to fix the reliability issues for the 2016 model year forward.   Which means they can fix the cars out on the road - at which point they should be responsible for fixing them, but other compensation?  I see no reason for that.

Yeah, except that’s an uninformed response.

The flu shot may help prevent the flu if its a particular strain you’re exposed to that’s included in the shot. If it isn’t? Well, it may not prevent you from catching it, but it is proven to help significantly reduce the severity of the illness. Last big flu outbreak we had,…

They’re replacing a lot of intersections near me with roundabouts.

Watching people lose their friggin’ minds over it online is incredible.  I mean, people literally throwing a fit because they can’t see traffic coming the opposite direction on the other side of the roundabout, and therefore the things “aren’t safe”.…

It’s perfectly legal to underfund pensions in private companies, they just can’t hide it, and underfunding them can get expensive.

On the public side, issues are a bit different, but underfunding them is still the primary problem.  8% is unreasonably high for an expected rate of return. But 6% or 6.5% isn’t.  But…

Nonsense. Sustainability of a pension is entirely dependent on the financial assumptions behind them. My wife’s employer has a pension plan. The actuaries’ report shows that they have to contribute about 4.3% of pay to it each year, and their rate of return needed to keep it balanced is about half-way between 30 year…

Think about that for a minute, though.

They’re growing like a tech company, but when they’re fully mature, what will they be? A car company with potentially good marketshare and profits. Like GM. Or Honda. Or Ford. All of which are valued at HALF the market share of Tesla. They aren’t going to grow into being the next…

Anyone who thinks Texas is more sane than California isn’t likely sane themselves.

The disturbing thing about the mentality of this reported email is that it assumes that driving an old car corresponds to financial irresponsibility.  Maybe.  Or maybe its a sign of the highest financial responsibility - not wasting money on things that don’t matter....

I can’t vouch for this letter, but this sort of thing DOES happen.

I have an uncle who is a surgeon, and years ago he was driving an OLD Buick to work every day, and the hospital called him in to tell him they were aware of his car, and were giving him a new car (Lexus) to drive and they never wanted to see that Buick…

So thats a more reasoned criticism than comparing it to the PHEV Rav4.

So if it can’t match the economy of the hybrid Rav4, it has to provide value elsewhere - meaning it has to undercut it on price or outperform it. The current CX-5 beats the hybrid Rav4 by about $3k on base price, so they could probably price up…

Think of it this way:

If Tesla grew to six times its current size in terms of revenue, and actually made decent profit margins, they would would be comparable to Honda.

And they would be worth about $50 billion.

It’s very clear $100 billion is far, far too high. That puts them with VW.

So they’re valuing Tesla at a price…

The Rav4 PHEV is going to be way more expensive than the hybrid Rav4.  About $8k more.  Mazda doesn’t need to worry about competing with that.  They need to worry about competing with the hybrid Rav4 on mpg and price.

Ford isn’t bringing us the focus, period.

They are giving us the 1.5L Ecoboost in the Escape and the 1.0L in the EcoSport, though.

178 HP in a Mazda3 is far more than enough to meet the demands of 80 mph freeways, speed, and safety.

Bloomberg’s plans sound crazy ambitious (It’d be great if it could work, btw), but some of this is a little easier than you’d think.

First off, even if you said all new car sales would be EV by 2035, that is a long transition period. If you assumed that we had 0% EV marketshare now and it would ramp linearly to 1 by…

You’re only making yourself look more ignorant on proper accounting methods, but feel free to keep digging yourself deeper.

1) The debt MBTA has could be an issue, but it is separate from the cost of providing current services and what the best move going forward for them is. Think of it this way. You were an idiot and…

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No, I don’t have one. Because in 2010 when I last bought a car new, there were no available hybrids that met my needs. In 2015 when I replaced my 1998 Camry with a 2006 Fusion, I considered a hybrid, but a family member wanted to sell the Fusion and that was the best option for me at the time, pricewise.

However…