Ratings, sure. You aren’t getting max hp at the same time your are getting max mpg. That’s my point.

Not at the same time.

Rednecks are only in the south. As you go north they are hicks. I know. I’m a hick.

Write surprised at how business works.

Most WRX’s won’t see anywhere near this mileage. With an ICE you can have horsepower or mpg but not both, I don’t care what Ford says.

we somehow still have not perfected the art of automobile production.

You can threshold brake in a car with ABS.

Slides shows need to be a problem that doesn’t exist anymore.

This. I used to daily a manual Mustang GT, that thing could burble at like 3 mph in 1st all day. My hour commute in rush hour wasn’t bad at all.

Did you get better?

Every single religious exemption is utter bullshit.

I’ll trust people with phd’s over facebook everyday of the week.

...religious exemption...

My car is not a car.

I have two schwinns from Walmart. I have spent more on a tune up than one bike cost. Per the mechanic guy, the ones I bought are the last ones that can actually be repaired. I bought the pair for the missus and myself around 2011.

Depends on the terms. You can get a discount on a car through an OEM financing arm that has higher rates. Not more than 10% but still higher than a bank would offer.

Tesla’s Fremont factory is about 5.3 million square feet,

Sure it’s all les usable, but Tesla stans don’t care.

Edison literally promoted the electric chair (using Westinghouse/Teslas AC current) as a method of human execution in order to raise ACs profile as “dangerous” in the public and further this own interests.

I’m not sure they are that more efficient. Cheap maybe. Per the article they are still using temporary tents to keep production numbers up. They also don’t have legacy costs of most other automakers nor do they have the costs of dedicated infrastructure. Yes, they are building plants and that’s a huge cost but they…