One guy I know had made the comment that his parents were giving him shit for not giving them any grandkids.  His retort: stop voting for the fuckhead politicians that are making it obscenely expensive to pay for the healthcare required to have them and you may get some grandkids.  He said they stopped bugging him…

I’d like to add to what you said. Income inequality being what it is, with the gap widening by the day, whole industries can just ignore 60% of the population and sell to the remaining, where they can gouge.

You can thank modern companies incentivizing short term profits and milestones combined with CEOs that plan on only staying with a company long enough to get their bonus for said short term profits and milestones before yanking their golden parachute and being replaced by the next CEO that will do the same. “Who cares…

More evidence that, “they don’t make them like they used to” is a good thing.

For the longest time you would sell a person a cheap chevy in his 20s so that he’d buy a bigger one when his family started, a nicer buick when he got that big promotion at work, and a big cadillac in his old age.

I would argue for the Chrysler K-car’s entire platform as well. It saved a car company, sold like hotcakes, was very low price (especially at low trim), and created an entire segment of vehicles in the American market.

25 years ago when people were grumbling about the (then) homeless problem where I lived; I would argue that if the redistribution of wealth to the top were to continue at the pace it was, we’d see the sort of issues that countries who had the sort of income inequality that we were heading toward; in particular shanty…

The 200 and Dart really didn’t get the love they deserved. If just a little more effort was done by FCA, they could have been great cars. The 200 in particular had a lot of potential, and the entire Chrysler brand should have been the domestic counterpart to what Mazda is doing now with their affordable near-luxury…

I wonder how this trend will end up

This is wrong, no one buys a shitty Malibu and based on that purchase goes out and buys a Corvette later in life. Ford does it right. They sell F150s faster then the can build them with buyers willing to pay, they sell Mustangs, and Broncos. They sell a few other models like the explorer mainly to the police, but the…

Customers don’t buy cars like that anymore; when Sloan defined the ladder of success the auto industry was in its nascence with only a few players and no foreign competition. He was essentially building out the markets and the concepts that exist today but hadn’t been tapped yet or been forced to be shared with other…

Tomorrows car guys and gals will be into electrics, where GM is far ahead of the Japanese competition. Car guys are always looking backwards. Tomorrows car guy doesn't really care what yesterday's car guy was into.

It’s almost like we are living in a Gilded Age and reaching pre-Great Depression wealth distribution....

Bernie/AOC 2024 confirmed.

Barf.

Yeah, but that only works if they don’t have lightbars. The difference between a lightbar and a roofrack is not always easy from a distance. 

how else will you know that you’re going offroad if you don’t tell everyone with your orange trim.

There’s a lot to like. Having a tire with some sidewall is great. Cool fabric on the seats, and I like the highlights and the color a lot.  May be a customer.

The green is the winner here.

How else will suburban owners be able to one up their neighbor’s regular Explorer without some kind of bright trim?