You do realize that there’s a reason for the weight rules, right?

For anyone looking for other numbers for comparison, here’s some comparison Consumer Reports did between hybrids vs. non-hybrids of the same models. These are 60-0 rather than the Lebaron’s 55-0, but close enough. Honestly a stopping distance of 149ft doesn’t seem that far off from what a bunch of modern cars that…

Given how people seem to drive these days, I know I’m not going to hit the car in front, but I usually under-brake hoping it buys the car behind me a few more moments to put down their phone and stop.

Good info. What about a Porsche from the early 80's?

Back then, nobody could stop short. I found that the 70 Corvette had 147 ft stopping distance from the same test (on the narrower tires that came with the base model).  I expect a LOT of cars back then had similar braking distances.  The fact the car could stop and not idle off with faded brakes was considered a win.

It’s misleading because they are treating sunk costs such as R&D as though it’s a new cost incurred on each vehicle sold. If that were accurate, producing more cars would mean a larger loss for the company. But the opposite is true. They are making it sound like the Cost of Goods produced is $100k higher per unit than…

Somebody looked at Ford’s total investment in EV’s and then looked at their total sales, and divided by volume. It makes for a good headline. But that’s it.

I think they are considering the R&D as part of the cost of production. Which would mean that the cost to develop the 7.3 Godzilla (and 6.8 gas) and 6.7 diesel should be deducted from the full size truck sale cost.  Simply put that’s not how accounting works.

Your assumption is correct; these hand-wringing headlines are profoundly stupid.

It doesn’t help that the US has an entire political party dedicating a huge portion of their identity to eliminating EVs, creating a complex and confusing regulatory environment for OEMs.

That’s exactly what they are doing, and it’s extremely misleading.

I think they are basically taking all their EV related revenue minus EV spend and simply dividing it by the number of EVs sold. There is no real amortizing, depreciating, or any other sort of cost spreading major expenses like R&D, NRE, Capex, materials, labor, etc that are often substantial at during early phases of…

One can understand why his daughter snuck out. One has a harder time understanding why she came home.

I served 31 years, I was an Army doctor, I trained as a Navy flight surgeon, I served with the 7th Special Forces Group, I served with the 160th. I served six tours.

My reputation would be ruined too, if I pulled guns on innocent strangers just doing their jobs.

If you assumed Hollonbeck would have seen the error of his ways after his arrest and being fired from his job, though, you couldn’t possibly be more wrong. He is doubling down

““And everybody knows what’s going on in this country with fentanyl and child trafficking and rape. Terrible stuff.””

“I want to get 12 moms and dads on that jury...”

Another violent lunatic attached to an AR15. Yay, ‘Merica!

“He went on to say he’d “love to see auto manufacturers take some responsibility,” regarding the misuse of performance cars”